Alfred served in the Confederate Army at age sixteen from 1861 to 1865. He moved to Waveland in 1873 at age twenty-seven and bought one thousand acres. In 1880, Alfred constructed and financed a big ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth found a little-known soldier from World War I to revive the Ft. Benning name. The base was originally named for secessionist Henry Benning.

In the 19th century, police in St. Louis and Kansas City were placed under state control as a power move by Democrats to ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for ...

For more than a century, Fort Benning's name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the ...

After two years as Fort Moore, the Army base formerly known as Fort Benning is getting its old name back. Now it's being ...

The Army initially established Camp Benning in 1918. Henry Benning, the original Confederate honoree, said in a 1861 speech ...

Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday.

Since then, our beautiful country has fought two other wars. We call them the First and Second World War. We have endured ...

Initial Union attempts to storm the nearby Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia had been unsuccessful in 1861. Thus ...

The Congressional Medal of Honor (CMH) is the highest award that this nation bestows on its members of the military. In order ...