In his sculpted image on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, a leafy boulevard hemmed by stately residences, J.E.B. Stuart is immortalized on horseback. The cavalry commander developed a reputation ...
Edward G. Longacre, author of Joshua Chamberlain: The Soldier and the Man, Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg, and many other notable biographies, gives us an ...
Gen. David McMurtrie Gregg is primarily known as one of the heroes of the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. On July 3, 1863, 31-year-old Gregg’s cavalry unit held Confederate Army Gen. JEB ...
More than 4,000 people had crammed into tiny Dover, Pennsylvania, on November 23, 1907, to watch a parade and then attend the unveiling ceremonies for a metal tablet commemorating Dover's role in the ...
Gen. David McMurtrie Gregg is primarily known as one of the heroes of the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. On July 3, 1863, 31-year-old Gregg’s cavalry unit held Confederate Army Gen. James ...
Dillsburg, Pa. (WHTM) – Not every historical marker in the state of Pennsylvania is erected by the State of Pennsylvania. Case in point, a marker put up in 1990, by the Northern York County Historical ...
One of the few ground rules observed with equal fervor by editorial writers and politicians is that the Civil War is about as amenable to levity as motherhood. It was a reasonably calculated risk for ...