Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the Mexican American War, West Point graduate George Henry Thomas served with distinction at the battles of ...

George Henry Thomas, 15, piled into a carriage with his mother and sisters and racketed along dirt roads into the darkness. Before they had gone far, afraid the assassins would overtake them, they ...

AMONG all the soldiers who during the war for the Union rose to high position and won an enduring name, none better deserves or will better repay a careful study than George H. Thomas. There were in ...

ROCK OF CHICKAMAUGA: THE LIFE OF GENERAL GEORGE H. THOMAS (328 pp.) — Freeman Cleaves—University of Oklahoma ($3.75). THOMAS: ROCK OF CHICKAMAUGA (385 pp.) — Richard O’Connor—Prentice-Hall ($4).

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. Harry Newton Blue in memory of her husband Harry Newton Blue (1893-1925), who served as an officer of the Regular U.S. Army 1917-1925 ...

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The Civil War ripped apart nearly every bond Americans shared — classmates, friends, even family members found themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. One of the most unique feuds came in the ...