John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union ...

An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry officer, Nathan Bedford Forrest reportedly had 30 horses shot out from under him. Enlisting as a private in a mounted ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Thursday, Feb. 16. Our suburbs are again threatened by small bands of Confederate cavalry. This afternoon about four hundred men, supposed to be under the commend of Col.