wrote 6 days ago: Attention to detail could have made him the ideal accountant. He is reputed as having reminded a can … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Major Thomas Osborn commanded a Union artillery unit that was taking direct hits from Rebel cannons … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: In the early 1830s he was an artillerist, a college professor, and an Episcopal priest. Some members … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: He was a pianist, boxer, fencer, author, and mathematician. With the highest grade-point average at … more →
wrote 1 month ago: He was an incurable romantic. He was writing a love letter to his fiancé just minutes before the fam … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Enjoying physical training over intellectual challenges and schoolboy pranks over blind obedience, h … more →
wrote 1 month ago: In charge of bombing the Federal forces on the third day, this twenty-seven-year-old was placed in a … more →
wrote 1 month ago: His father, “Light Horse Harry” Lee, was a Revolutionary War hero who abandoned his wife and family … more →
wrote 2 months ago: As the ideal commander of all Union forces at Gettysburg, Major General George Gordon Meade had almo … more →
wrote 2 months ago: He joined his state’s militia when he was only sixteen. Highly regarded by those who knew him, he wa … more →
wrote 2 months ago: He was related to the Revolutionary War soldier and legend, Ethan Allen, of Vermont’s Green Mountain … more →
wrote 2 months ago: He refused to conform to Harvard’s strict rules of demeanor and academic performance. Prior to gradu … more →
wrote 3 months ago: He graduated near the top of his class at West Point, left the army to study law, and then returned … more →
wrote 3 months ago: He was a skilled cavalry commander and a dashing glory-hound in search of newspaper headlines. “I’d … more →
wrote 3 months ago: The battle of Gettysburg came to her doorstep. Twenty-five years later, she wrote of the terror she … more →
wrote 3 months ago: A player of solitaire affectionately known as “Uncle John,” he was so well respected by … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Sophisticated and well-bred he was once a soldier in the Danish army. Before immigrating to the Unit … more →
wrote 4 months ago: He came from a family with a proud military tradition. It began with General Artemus Ward who was th … more →
wrote 4 months ago: After graduating from the University of Michigan, he became a lawyer and the owner of his father’s b … more →