Joseph Wheelan

One of the lesser known Generals who was most responsible for winning The Civil War, Philip Henry Sheridan was fierce in pushing his troops to endure, and quick to improvise tactics when necessary. After the Civil War, he ruthlessley raided the Plains Indians by killing their warriors, burning their villages and destroying their primary source of food, the buffalo. As he forced the indians onto reservations, he often defended them against corrupt...

"As the Confederacy crumbled under the Union army's relentless "hammering," Federal armies marched on the Rebels' remaining bastions in Alabama, the Carolinas, and Virginia. General William T. Sherman's battle-hardened army conducted a punitive campaign against the seat of the Rebellion, South Carolina, while General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant sought to break the months-long siege at Petersburg, defended by Robert E. Lee's starving Army of Northern...

"On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945. Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the...