The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Women veterans from the Civil War ... Cemetery's Civil War women has been syndicated elsewhere and can still be found on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Navy Cmdr. B.J. Farrell, commanding ...

After the Civil War ... served as an admiral in the Confederate navy. The presence, after the war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality ...

They were considered contraband when the Union Army arrived to assist the Navy as part its blockade ... regiment to fight for the Union in the Civil War, Allen says. That famed regiment’s ...

He posed that question to former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, who served in Iraq and had in recent years built a second career in filmmaking, advising on sequences like the assault on the White House that ...

The key term here is “practical.” The U.S. Navy owned three submarines before Holland. In the 1860s, during the Civil War, the Union Navy had the U.S.S. Alligator, a 47-foot-long submersible ...

Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point: Lt. Cmdr. John Bulkeley ...