American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...
The base, known as Fort Liberty since 2023, originally was named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. The Army says it now ...
The Civil War is well known for great battles, famous generals and large casualties. But there was a lesser known side of the war, the guerrilla war where bands of civilians and soldiers joined forces ...
Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.
My military service saw my allegiance to six different presidents over almost 40 years in uniform. I didn’t always agree with ...
City of Hornell: City Hall will be closed on Feb. 17, 2025 for Presidents’ Day. Hornell Public Library: The library will be ...
Gilbert Bates was getting madder by the minute. The 31-year-old farmer was chewing the fat with a neighbor in November 1867.
What he found were ancestors both black and white who had fought on both sides in the Civil War. “I was surprised ... but was buried in full Confederate uniform. “We always had pictures ...
The base, known as Fort Liberty since 2023, originally was named for Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. The Army says it now ...
But by 1778, as Washington was leading the Continental Army against ... during the Civil War and put an end to slavery. Some of the former pro-slavery states still treat Confederate figures ...
The army installation’s name was changed to Fort Liberty in 2023, after Congress passed a law to rename all military bases ...
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...