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

Surviving Black Hawk Down tells the famous story of the Battle of Mogadishu, but it only scratches the surface of one of its ...

The army base was earlier named after Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general. The Pentagon said the name will now honor Roland L. Bragg, a soldier who was decorated for his service during World War II.

Designating flags were used to organize army units, whereas other flags directly represented the two warring factions. This section displays objects that were used as flags during the Civil War.

At the time of the Civil War, as a result ... In the large general hospitals surgeons such as Reed B. Bontecou, MD at the more than 2400-bed Harewood U.S. Army Hospital (Washington) helped create ...

The year 1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war ... Union General George McClellan's ill-fated campaign on the Virginia Peninsula, where his huge army meets ...