Left behind
On September 19, 1918, Lieutenant Colonel R.D. Garrett, Chief Signal Officer, 42nd Infantry Division, tested a telephone left behind by the Germans in their hasty...
Lieutenant General Grant
With this message, President Abraham Lincoln forwarded Major General Ulysses S. Grant’s name to the U.S. Senate for consideration for promotion to the rank of...
Lincoln’s difficult general
Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan snubbed and acted insubordinately toward President Lincoln on numerous occasions. Lincoln suffered the insults as long as McClellan...
Lost Battalion
On October 2, 1918, Maj. Charles Whittlesey sent this message to his commander via a carrier pigeon named Cher Ami. Whittlesey’s troops, sometimes known as the Lost...
Map of the battle of Fredericksburg and the Rappahannock River
This map details Union and Confederate army positions around the Virginia city of Fredericksburg in December 1862. Sitting on the south bank of the Rappahannock...
Map of the Saint Mihiel Operation
This annotated map illustrates the American and French offensive against the St. Mihiel Salient in France, September 12 and 13, 1918, during World War I.
Marching to a different drummer
Taylor, a drummer boy for the 78th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops, was photographed near the end of the Civil War. The 78th was organized in April 1864 and...