Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The solemn U.S. military bugle call "Taps" originated with a Union Army father finding the melody written on paper in the pocket ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations that generate combat power.1 Institutional strategy, the mechanism by which ...

The Battle of Pleasant Hill on April 9, 1864 was a significant event in Louisiana history, being the largest and one of the ...

A new bill aims to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the African Americans who fought for the Union in the Civil War. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) are ...

Edward Otho C. Ord was a major general in the Union army during the Civil War and commanded the Department of Arkansas and the Fourth Military District during Reconstruction. Ord was born in ...

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the Union Army and end the rebellion in the ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "That the purity and sanctity of the ballot box shall be preserved": Civil War politics and the troops -- "You must have learned ... of my ...

In the early months of the Civil War, Republican Sen. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts proved invaluable to President Abraham Lincoln and the Union cause. As the Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - August 14, 1861. Abraham Lincoln orders Union reinforcements sent to Missouri after a Confederate victory at the Battle of Wilson Creek. The Show-Me State was important to ...