Roomates battle in Tennessee
Former West Point roommates Lieutenant General John B. Hood and Major General John M. Schofield fought a decisive battle at Franklin, Tennessee. Schofield’s Army...
Scout Tsoe
Tsoe, also known as “Peaches,” was a White Mountain Apache who enlisted into the U.S. Army and served as a scout under General George Crook, commander of the...
Stonewall Jackson
Lieutenant General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, a revered Confederate commander, graduated from West Point in and served the U.S. Army in the Mexican War. He...
The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
On April 9, 1865, Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee met in Wilmer McClean’s home at Appomattox Court House, Virginia,...
Two if by sea from Major Lee
In this letter dated 25 August 1779, General George Washington forwarded a letter from Major General Anthony Wayne to Samuel Huntington, President of Congress....
Washington takes command
This 1876 Currier & Ives lithograph shows General George Washington taking command of the American Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 3, 1775. The image was...
Winfield Scott Hancock
During the Civil War Major General Hancock was wounded three times while serving as a brigade, division, and corps commander.