Draft of the citation
This is the draft of the citation that accompanied the Medal of Honor awarded to Staff Sergeant Clifford Sims’s family. Sims lost his life on February 21, 1968,...
Dressed for land and sea
The D-day assault was rigorous and required soldiers to be prepared for an attack that started at sea and ended on land. This drawing by combat historian Lt. Jack...
Engine check
Crewmembers in the engine room of a World War I oil-burning German submarine are checking their equipment.
Equal pay or no pay at all
In this letter, Col. E. N. Hallowell—who took command of the 54th Massachusetts after Col. Robert G. Shaw was killed—declined the state’s offer to make up the...
Escaped!
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Eduard Isaacs wrote this report to the Secretary of the Navy in November 1918, describing how he escaped from German imprisonment after his ship...
Failing to qualify
Johann Georg Peifer of Pennsylvania submitted these frakturs to prove his age and his marriage to Maria Schaferin, in support of his claim to a pension based upon...
Fall in!
This photograph, taken in 1898 in Greenville, South Carolina, captured troops from the 5th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Greenville was home to Camp Wetherill,...