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Veterans’ reminiscences recall the fear, courage, and—yes—humor they brought to the legendary battle in the Pacific. February 19, 1945, dawned bleak but manageable. That morning nearly eight hundred American vessels, ranging from battleships, cruisers, and destroyers to transports and LSTs, lay offshore a small island in the far Pacific. Aboard the transports were seventy thousand …
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The Teenage Terrorist of Roane CountyNancy Hart had spirit and spunk— and good aim. Newspapers called her a vamp, a spitfire, a bushwhacker and a voluptuous tomboy. Yankees knew her as a troublesome character who woul… Read MoreACW Book Review: Into the CraterInto the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg by Earl J. Hess, University of South Carolina Press, 2010, $44.95 THE JULY 1864 BATTLE OF the Crater marked the Army of the Potomac’s… Read MoreLee, Grant and Their Steadfast SteedsWhen it came to military transport, a general was only as good as his horse. To students of the Civil War, no horse is better known—or more easily recognizable— than General Robert… Read MoreACW Book Review: Shadow of ShilohShadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War by Gail Stephens, Indiana Historical Society Press, 2010, $27.95 IF ULYSSES S. GRANT HAD had been able to read Shadow o… Read MoreDaily Quiz for November 10, 2017Park Ranger Roy C. Sullivan who lived through a record seven lightning strikes between 1942 and 1977, died this way.
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