Three months before the Battle of Gettysburg, the Iron Brigade and its commander, Brig. Gen. Solomon Meredith, left a strong, positive impression in a grand review of the Army of the Potomac attended by President and Mrs. Lincoln, Maj. Gen. Joe Hooker, and other dignitaries. Here's a review of th...

David Kincaid - Vocals, Guitar, Banjo & Percussion Liz Knowles - Fiddle
Jerry O’Sullivan - Uilleann Pipes & Whistle
This will be the sixth song arranged and recorded from the amazing 1864 collection entitled “Joe English’s Irish and Comic Songster” (Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, New York). Not m...

The lives of JFK, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Sam Giancana intertwine leading to the mysterious death of Marilyn in Los Angeles and an assassination attempt on President Kennedy in Chicago in the fall of ‘62…one year before Dallas.

This film was shot at Durant Motors in Leaside, then a suburb of Toronto. Technology and the organization of production varied significantly between plants and manufacturers in this period, when the industry was still relatively young. This record of production is sufficiently detailed to documen...

In this episode, Andrew is on location in the Shenandoah Valley at the location of the battle of Cross Keys. This battlefield is used as the backdrop to talk about sharpshooters or light infantry use during the war. The unit as the center of this example is the famous Bucktails! Thank you to the ...

Major Eli Lilly of the 9th Indiana Cavalry and his command surrendered to Nathan Bedford Forrest at Sulphur Branch Trestle in Limestone County, Ala., in September 1864. Taken to a prison in Enterprise, Miss., Lilly had an experience involving the Free State of Jones.

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It is easy to overlook the Civil War service of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President of the United States. In 1862, when his home state of Indiana struggled to meet its quota of volunteers called to arms by President Abraham Lincoln, Harrison stepped up. Here's what happened.

When it comes to the July 18, 1863, assault on Fort Wagner, our memory is dominated by engravings and lithographs of Col. Robert Gold Shaw leading his 54th Massachusetts Infantry on the parapet before being felled by a Confederate defender. The 1989 movie "Glory" takes viewers a but further. Here...

Following the failure of Bragg's Invasion of Kentucky. The Confederate Army of Mississippi returned to Tennessee in chaos. Two sides sprang up in the army, one side was with Bragg, and the other was against Bragg. This verbal conflict was so great that the Confederate president himself, Jefferso...

This was an American Air Forces film of 1947, largely based on an in-service film DZ Normandy from 1944. Intended as it was for active servicemen, it goes into considerable detail as to the methods and strategies employed in the initial stages of the invasion of Normandy, employing over 500 glide...

George Fotovich was a member of the 505th PIR in the 82nd Airborne division during the Second World War. He saw multiple combat jumps, and personally witnessed the death of multiple comrades.

Sadly, George has passed on, but his legacy continues.

We had the honor of sitting down and hearing ...

Private John C. West numbered among the stalwart Texans who fought in the Devil's Den and along Little Round Top during the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Less than a week after the fighting ended, during the retreat to Virginia, West described the action in two letters to his family.

David Kincaid - Lead & Harmony Vocals, Piano, Liz Knowles - Violin
This song, composed in 1864 by the great songwriter/publisher George F. Root, is, for my part, one of his most moving. A heartfelt tribute to Col. James A. Mulligan, commander of 23rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry (a.k.a. the “Chica...

On December 26, 1862, Major General William S. Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland finally leaves its base at Nashville and advances towards General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee stationed around Murfreesboro. After 4 days of maneuvering around Middle Tennessee, the two armies meet just west of...

Military Images magazine subscriber Ken Harris emailed Ron about a particular regimental history, one that he was very familiar with and had used from time to timw. In reviewing the book, Ron scrolled to a section that had previously escaped his attention—the Publisher's Preface—which provides co...

The March (1964) is a documentary directed by James Blue on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, one of the watershed events of American history, made by the United States Information Agency for showing outside of the USA. Only in 1990 did it become available domestically. Its high ...

One of the iconic photographs of the Civil War is this view of wounded Union soldiers at Savage’s Station in Virginia, taken on June 27, 1862, by James F. Gibson, one of the team of photographers on the staff of Mathew Brady. Here are a collection of anecdotes offering context to the visual.

Ron recently received an email from Rich Hackett, a self-described research nerd. They traded emails, which led to him sharing a gift in the form of an extremely well-researched account of his second great grandfather, John Garrigan, (life dates 1832-1909), Garrigan’s brother-in-law, Charles Kenn...

A portrait photograph of a Boston merchant found at the Civil War show in Franklin, Tenn., marked the beginning of a trip down the research rabbit hole that led to the capture of a Confederate flag at the Battle of Franklin. Here's the story.

On or about December 16, 1863, Pvt. Jackson O. Bashears of the 65th Indiana Infantry fell into enemy hands at the tail end of the Knoxville Campaign in Eastern Tennessee. Carried by his captors to Richmond and held at Belle Isle, he suffered severely from exposure. Here's his story, in his own wo...

Willie Sims, the son of an elite Mississippi cotton plantation family, left Yale University to join his home state's 21st Infantry. The war ruined his fortunes, costing blood and treasure that could never be replaced. His transformation from anger and resentment to a member of a bi-racial politic...