Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps. Thank Union desperation and several entrepreneurs American aeronauts with a good ...

John Reynolds -- commander of the 1st Corps ... could have sent the Union Army reeling at the outset of what many consider the most significant battle of the Civil War. In Reynolds' place ...

The armies had no well-organized medical corps or field hospital plans ... superintendent of nurses for the Union during the American Civil War.Corbis via Getty Images The Union formalized ...

As bedraggled Union troops retreated to their camp along ... so the younger Johnston became a drummer boy -- a critical position during the Civil War that was responsible for much more than ...

Tubman still faced the racism and sexism of America after the Civil War. When she sought payment for her service as a spy, the U.S. Congress denied her claim. It paid the eight Black male scouts, but ...

Dated Aug. 19, 1861, the short letter is addressed to Charles Ellet Jr., an American civil engineer and Union ... war. “You propose raising for the service of the U.S., a Civil Engineer Corps ...