Ambrose Powell Hill (1825 - 1865) was a Virginian and a graduate of West Point. Despite his personal hatred of slavery and his dubious attitude towards secessionism, he followed his mother state into the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War. Starting as the colonel of the 13th Virginia Regiment, he quickly rose to higher commands, saving the day for the Confederacy with his timely intervention at Antietam.

In May of 1863, Hill was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant...

OUR LITTLE WAR WITH THE HEATHENS
-New York Herald, July 1871

Naturally, when one thinks of American soldiers fighting in Korea, they will think of the 20th Century conflict. However, the United State's first Korean War, the result of diplomatic measures gone sour, occurred only a few years after the guns of the Civil War had silenced.

In the years immediately following the Civil War, the United States Navy had a small naval presence in Korea to assist diplomatic...

1) From leader of Kleftes to soldier of the British Army:

Kolokotronis was born in 3 April 1770. His father, Constantine Kolokotronis, took part in an armed rebellion, the Orlov Revolt, instigated by the administration of Catherine the Great of Russia. He was killed in 1780 in an engagement with Turkish troops, along with two of his brothers George and Apostolis.

Theodoros joined the ranks of a Peloponnesian guerrilla...

December 13th, 1862 was one of the darkest days of the Civil War for the Union. At Marye's Heights, just outside Fredericksburg, seven divisions of Union infantry had been shattered in piecemeal assaults on the Confederate position. Somewhere between 6,000 and 8,000 of the boys in blue became casualties. The commander of the Army of the Potomac, Ambrose Burnside, proposed to lead another assault in person the next day, but was fortunately dissuaded by his underlings.

For the wounded...

There were few battles in the American Civil War that made Confederate soldiers look more gallant, or a Confederate general look more disgraceful, then Franklin.

Nineteen miles to the south of Nashville, Tennessee, John Bell Hood and his Army of Tennessee attacked entrenched Federals under the command of Brigadier General John Schofield. In a brave but costly assault that was compared to Pickett's Charge, the Confederates charged across two miles of open ground before coming into contact...