The Paulding Diary: Little Bighorn

The Paulding Diary: Little Bighorn

Holmes O. Paulding was an army surgeon with the Montana Column under Colonel John Gibbon in the summer of 1876. The table below shows the Returns from Military Post listings for Paulding’s time in service. His humorous, cranky, and opinionated observations on...
The President’s Son: Jesse Grant

The President’s Son: Jesse Grant

For sixteen exhausting years, Ulysses S. Grant provided heroic, uninterrupted service to America. As a general in the Civil War in the west, commander of all Union forces, General of the Army after the war, and then eight years as President of the United States, he...
Giving All for Freedom

Giving All for Freedom

Among the least-studied areas of Civil War history is the role played by enslaved African-Americans in helping Union soldiers return to their lines after escaping from Confederate prison camps. I have published many memoirs by Union soldiers who experienced this. To a...

Gettysburg: Two Key Individuals

Len Fullenkamp, Army War College historian, is a wonderful communicator. His videos on YouTube explain military history in a way that makes it exciting and understandable. In this video, he tells how a key individual in the right place, at the right time, taking the...

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