THIS column continues from last week. Isaac Jacob Rochussen, the patrician from the Netherlands who brought Nicholas Said to New York in January 1860, exposed him to his first baptism of American ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, exactly 160 years ago. While the societal topic of race and the war’s deeply rooted issues still linger in the modern world in new ways, the bloodshed of battles that were ...

Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning 2001 war film about the shooting down of two US military helicopters was inspired by the real-life Battle of Mogadishu. A new Netflix docuseries explores the true story be ...

Soldiers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (LI), traveled ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Retired 1st Sgt. Mark Matthews was a soldier who saw the U.S. Army evolve from horse-mounted cavalry to diesel-driven, ...

Litchfield’s G.A.R. Hall holds a special place in my heart. For about three years, while I was writing my two Terry Tales books, it was my second home. It was in the G.A.R. that I ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

Robert Donaldson was born Oct. 13, 1828, in Perry County, Ohio. He was the son of Thomas Donaldson and Nancy Saffer Donaldson. Both natives of Virginia, Thomas and Nancy immigrated to Ohio in 1823 ...

James Montgomery and his 2nd South Carolina Colored Volunteers Regiment along the Combahee River. While there, they routed Confederate outposts, destroyed stores of cotton, food and weapons – and ...

The first Brothers in Arms made a great go of it, telling the true story of a parachute infantry regiment in the United States 101st Airborne Division dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day.

Vitalii Holovnia, a soldier of the 78th separate air assault regiment, reported cases of self-detonation among his comrades due to fatigue and inadequate command orders. (Vitalii Holovnia / Facebook) ...