Edward Otho C. Ord was a major general in the Union army during the Civil War and commanded the Department of Arkansas and the Fourth Military District during Reconstruction. Ord was born in ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations that generate combat power.1 Institutional strategy, the mechanism by which ...

In the early months of the Civil War, Republican Sen. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts proved invaluable to President Abraham Lincoln and the Union cause. As the Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "That the purity and sanctity of the ballot box shall be preserved": Civil War politics and the troops -- "You must have learned ... of my ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - August 14, 1861. Abraham Lincoln orders Union reinforcements sent to Missouri after a Confederate victory at the Battle of Wilson Creek. The Show-Me State was important to ...

The Battle of Pleasant Hill on April 9, 1864 was a significant event in Louisiana history, being the largest and one of the ...