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 ...

With its attention to lessons that the XV Corps learned in battle ... I hope Burke will continue his work exploring Civil War tactical cultures of other Corps on both the Union and Confederate sides ...

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 ...

A bloody civil war between the Southern Confederacy ... Stonewall’s flank attack crushed a portion of the Union force, held by Maj. Gen. Oliver Howard’s 11th Corps. Jackson rode out under ...

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 ...

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 ...