Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...
Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad ... on the Civil War battlefield. After she led a successful raid of a Confederate outpost in South Carolina that ...
With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...
A strong oral tradition ties Lafayette’s visit to the Blue Ball Inn, on the Old York Road south of Shrewsbury. That tale of ...
Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known.
The al-Jaili refinery sits some 60 kilometers (40 miles) north of Khartoum ... amid violence targeting oil workers in another civil war. South Sudan broke away to become its own country in ...
The taunting post was just one in a recent string of comments from Trump suggesting that the United States annex Canada and ...
"Self-detonation and suicides: that's the reality about North Korea," said Kim, a 32-year-old former North Korean soldier who defected to the South ... War. North Korea reportedly sent a much smaller ...
After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two civil wars. The second Sudanese civil war ...
The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern identity through tumultuous battles and ...