Colonel of the Regiment

At first, Lincoln tried to avoid the topic of slavery. In fact, in his first inaugural speech, he said he would not force the emancipation of slaves onto southerners, but would also not allow it to expand to the western United States. With this notion, states began to seceded from the Union and war began to break out between the north and the south. As the war progressed and more states seceded, Lincoln began to fear he would lose the war. He was losing his funding, a large number of soldiers…

and served at Fort Still in Indian Territory until 1880 when the 10th cavalry headed for service at Fort Davis, Texas. At Fort Davis, despite his proven military expertise, Flipper faced discrimination from higher-ranking officers, in particular Colonel William “Pecos Bill” Shafter. Shafter filed two unwarranted criminal charges against Flipper, who was eventually dishonorably discharged from service for something that he did not do. It wasn’t until 1999 when President Bill Clinton, who granted…

An Irish priest named Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty was a patron of Rome’s high life, a well-respected Vatican diplomat and a regular attendee of all the most prestigious parties in the capital. O’Flaherty grew up in an Ireland under British control at the turn of the 20th century. Irish citizens fighting for their own freedom faced the wrath of harsh British army forces, including the infamous ‘Black and Tans’. As a young clerical student he witnessed first-hand atrocities committed by the Black…

Thomas was the third child of Julia (Neale) and Jonathan Jackson, an attorny. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. Two years after his birth, both his father and his sister, Elizabeth, died of typhoid fever. His mother was left alone to raise her children. Ill health and hard times forced her to send her children to live with relatives. Thomas, then 6-years old, and his sister Laura, were taken in by their uncle, Cummins Jackson, who lived at Jackson's Mill. His mother died in the fall of 1831.…

Engineer Castle Welcome to the Corp of Engineers, please pin the castle to our newly deserve Engineer Soldiers. Most folks that see the Branch Insignia don’t know what the castle means or where its heritage comes from. After hours of research I have learned more than I would have ever imagined, I’m going to cover the meaning, the history and the honor of getting to wear the castle upon my collar. Throughout my reading, I found out that the United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) adopted…

was a greater number than any other population in Canada. The Canadian government was so shocked and surprised by the sheer numbers of Indian volunteers early in the war, that they considered and almost created their own First Nation infantry and regiment (Boyden). Since most Native recruits spent their lives hunting, they were…

The Battle of San Juan Hill was the engagement between the United States and Spain that concluded the Spanish colonial control. The most acclaimed unit that was in Cuba at the time was the “Rough Riders”. Led by Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt and Colonel Leonard Wood. The Rough Riders were camped along the Santiago Road in Cuba during the first day of July of 1898 getting ready for battle. The Battle of San Juan Hill was a pivotal battle for both antagonist. Teddy’s “Rough Riders” was a…

Devil Forest and Honest Abe are not nicknames that are handed out lightly, but these two men were never known to be light. These were the two great heroes of the North and South, from the Civil War. These two weren’t normal by any sense of the word, simply put they were both just helping hands;, Lincoln a farm boy, and F forrest thea son of a blacksmith. Though there was definitely something special about these two and both were terrifying in their own ways. Lincoln was no doubt a; , having no…

In his Nobel Prize speech, William Faulkner said that it is the writer’s duty to write about “love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice” (par. 3) and that anything other than those “problems of the spirit” are not worth writing about. The ways he lived up to the standards he set were through the characters in his book The Unvanquished. The book takes place in the 1860’s-70’s centered around the maturation of a young boy named Bayard. His resilience, maturity, and basic…

The Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) went to work immediately. The first Gas Regiment was formed and fought in its’ first campaign Meuse-Argonne and St. Mihiel. In the early 1920’s the U.S. Army was within a heartbeat away from totally eliminating the CWS, but realized that the corps was very important to the stability of the Army and shortly thereafter became permanent. The CWS was quickly adapting to the Army’s needs. Colonel McBride engineered a 4.2 mortar shell which assisted the Chemical…