For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday.

The English Civil Wars were a series of battles ... men’s clothes and fighting for the Royalist army. Women did not just fight in the War. Elizabeth Alkin was a nurse who treated injured ...

an Irish immigrant who came to America sometime before the Civil War, watched the 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment march off to join Ulysses S. Grant and what would soon be called the Army of the ...

At the time of the Civil ... U.S. Army Hospital (Washington) helped create principles of operative technique for secondary amputations and complicated fractures. Anesthesia use in the war ...