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Grant sent them to destroy one of the Confederates’ few remaining supply lines; would they succeed? Threatening clouds presaged soggy weather on the morning of December 7, 1864, as the 97th New York Infantry joined a long column of Union troops on a road leading from Petersburg, Va. However dull the skies, the soldiers, commanded …
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Unknown Soldier: Being ThereBritish military engineer John Montrésor somehow found himself in the thick of things whenever history was made in 18th-century America. On February 20, 1760, near the height of th… Read MoreMHQ Winter 2014- CommentsU.S. Forests Fair Game in WWII Bill Yenne’s well-done though rather too concise article “When Japan Bombed Oregon,” Autumn 2013 on the September 1942 Japanese bombing of the mainla… Read MoreDeath Boards the EssexU.S. Navy captain David Porter bore the elements of greatness—but his epic 1812 Pacific voyage led to a Shakespearean final act. At age 32 in 1812, David Porter Jr., the son of a R… Read MoreLincoln’s Choice: The Dakota WarIn the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln personally decided who among 303 convicted Dakota warriors would hang. As the sun rose over Mankato, Minnesota, on the morning of t… Read MoreBehind the Lines: Scuttled at Scapa Flow, 1919The final cruise of the German High Seas Fleet. It was 9:30 a.m. when the German High Seas Fleet came sweeping out of the morning fog lying low over the North Sea. Ahead of them la… Read More
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