Waterloo, NY is Home to the Nation’s Memorial Day

The nation will celebrate its annual Memorial Day later this month, which begins the unofficial start of summer in the United States. And of course, here we know and understand the true meaning of the day and not that it just another holiday, for hot dogs, hamburgers, cookouts and family gatherings. While preparing for our […]

CSS Hunley First Submarine to Sink A Warship in Combat, Feb. 17, 1864

The submarine is today recognized as a deadly weapon of war and the subs of today are able to travel the expanses of the oceans under the sea and deliver a multitude of weapons, to include nuclear ICBMs. But 154 years ago during the Civil War the aims of the Confederate defenders of Charleston, SC, […]

November 19, 1863, President Lincoln Delivers the Gettysburg Address

Just four and a half months after one of the bloodiest battles in American history at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the ground of the battlefield was being rededicated as the “Soldiers’ National Cemetery” at Gettysburg. President Lincoln was invited to attend and give a few words but he was not slated to give the “oration” on that […]

The Centralia, Missouri Massacre, September 27, 1864

The Civil War wasn’t fought in the border states like it was in Virginia. It was a no-holds-barred, no quarter given guerrilla war where the leading two Confederate commanders, William Quantrill and William “Bloody Bill” Anderson weren’t even acknowledged by the Confederates. However, these guerrilla fighters did the bloody work for the Confederacy in Missouri […]

The Centralia, Missouri Massacre, September 27, 1864

The Civil War wasn’t fought in the border states like it was in Virginia. It was a no-holds-barred, no quarter given guerrilla war where the leading two Confederate commanders, William Quantrill and William “Bloody Bill” Anderson weren’t even acknowledged by the Confederates. However, these guerrilla fighters did the bloody work for the Confederacy in Missouri […]

The 54th Massachusetts Volunteers Storms Fort Wagner July 18, 1863

On this day in July 1863, William Carney a sergeant from the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry would perform actions that would earn him the Medal of Honor. The action took place at Fort Wagner on Morris Island, outside of Charleston, SC. Carney was the first African-American to be awarded the Medal of Honor in the […]

“Will You Give Us Our Whisky Now?”

On the bloodiest day of battle in American history, the Battle of Antietam, also known as the battle of Sharpsburg in September 1862 was the first major battle fought on Northern soil. The armies of Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off in a see-saw battle that saw a combined 22,000 casualties in one […]