Alexander McDowell McCook (April 22, 1831 – June 12, 1903) was a career United States Army officer…
Edward Moody McCook (June 15. 1833 – September 9, 1909) was a lawyer, politician, distinguished Union…
Benjamin Franklin "Bluff" Wade (October 27, 1800 – March 2, 1878) was a U.S. lawyer and United States…
John Grimes Walker (20 March 1835 – 16 September 1907) was an admiral in the United States Navy…
George Edwin Waring was born in Poundridge, NY, July 4, 1833. He was agricultural engineer of Central…
James Birdseye McPherson (November 14, 1828 – July 22, 1864) was a career United States Army officer…
George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 – November 6, 1872) was a career United States Army officer…
Thomas Francis Meagher (August 3, 1823 – July 1, 1867) was an Irish nationalist, a Union Army…
The Battle of Booneville was a skirmish of the American Civil War, occurring on June 17, 1861, in Cooper…
Ormbsy MacKnight (or McKnight) Mitchel (July 20, 1805 – October 30, 1862) was an American astronomer…
The Battle of Mobile Bay was a naval battle fought on August 5, 1864, during the American Civil War.
The Siege of Fort Morgan occurred during the American Civil War as part of the battle for Mobile Bay…
Fort Wayne was established 1839 in Indian Territory by Lt. Col. R.B. Mason of the 1st Dragoons. Named…
Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802 – February 11, 1878) was the United States Secretary of the Navy from…
James Harrison Wilson (September 2, 1837 – February 23, 1925) was a United States Army topographic…
Rear Admiral John Ancrum Winslow (1811 – 29 September 1873) was an officer in the United States…
John Ellis Wool (February 20, 1784 – November 10, 1869) was an officer in the United States Army…
John Lorimer Worden (12 March 1818 – 19 October 1897) was a U.S. Admiral who served in the American…
John Pope (March 16, 1822 – September 23, 1892) was a career United States Army officer and Union…
Fitz John Porter (August 31, 1822 – May 21, 1901) (sometimes written FitzJohn Porter) was a career…
Richard Yates (January 18, 1818 – November 27, 1873) was governor of Illinois during the American…
Fort Pulaski was prepared for a possible infantry attack. However, Fort Pulaski never endured a direct…
The Yazoo River was of major importance during the American Civil War. The first electrically detonated…
The Seal of the State of Illinois, 1818. The seal shows the bald eagle on a rock carrying a shield.…
The seal of the state of Louisiana. The seal shows a pelican in her piety, feeding her young with her…
James Brewerton Ricketts (June 21, 1817 – September 22, 1887) was a career officer in the United…
The Great Seal of the State of North Dakota. The seal depicts a tree, wheat, a plow, and a Native American…
The Seal of the State of Washington, 1889. The seal contains a portrait of George Washington and the…
Zouave was the title given to certain infantry regiments in the French army, normally serving in French…
William Starke Rosecrans (September 6, 1819 – March 11, 1898) was an inventor, coal-oil company…
Lovell Harrison Rousseau (August 4, 1818 – January 7, 1869) was a general in the United States…
Carl Schurz (March 2, 1829 – May 14, 1906) was a German revolutionary, American statesman and…
John Sedgwick (September 13, 1813 – May 9, 1864) was a teacher, a career military officer, and a Union…
William Rufus Shafter (October 16, 1835 – November 12, 1906) was a Union Army officer during the…
William Tecumseh Sherman served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65).…
William Tecumseh Sherman served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Here his…
Daniel Edgar Sickles (October 20, 1819 – May 3, 1914) was a colorful and controversial American…
Franz Sigel (November 18, 1824 – August 21, 1902) was a German military officer and immigrant to the…
Henry Warner Slocum (September 24, 1827 – April 14, 1894), was a Union general during the American…
John Sedgwick (September 13, 1813 – May 9, 1864) was a teacher, a career military officer, and…
The angle between the Union II and VI Corps became known as the "Bloody Angle of Spotsylvania", where…
Frederick Steele (January 14, 1819 – January 19, 1868) was a career military officer in the United…
George Stoneman, Jr. (August 22, 1822 – September 5, 1894) was a career United States Army officer,…
Samuel Davis Sturgis (June 11, 1822 – September 28, 1889) was an American military officer who…
"Ehrlich's diagrams illustrating the mechanism of immunity and cytolysis. The figures in black indicate…
Solar aspect of the hoof. Labels: a, bars; b, solar border of wall; c, line of union between wall and…
"Wood-rose, a remarkable vegetable excrescence, resembling a flower with radiating corrugated petals…
"Wood-rose, a remarkable vegetable excrescence, resembling a flower with radiating corrugated petals…
Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop…
(1831-1888) Philip Sheridan was a United States Army officer and Union General in the Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885), was an American general…
William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman,…
George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was a major general during the…
George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was a major general during the…
The Kearny Cross was a military decoration of the United States Army, which was first established in…
Robert Anderson (1805 - 1871) was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War. He is most known for…
It is four o'clock in the afternoon when a messenger rides up to the house of Captain Knott V. Martin.…