When you think of child soldiers, you might think...  ...r about the youngsters who fought in the American Civil War . But boys too young to realize what they're doing...  ...they're doing managed to become fighters in World War II as well. Most of these enlistments were due to...  ...t and not an official soldi...

Admiral David Dixon Porter was one of the Union's...  ...t successful naval commanders during the American Civil War . After an excellent combat record, he served as S...  ...demy and, in retirement, wrote his memoirs of the war and a naval history of it.At Emerging Civil War ,...

Among the big names of the American Civil War , Wilmer McLean is pretty far down the list. You m...  ...But his presence is found in the geography of the war . McLean was a wealthy man with a grocery store, a...  ...avaged in battle. Yet he grew richer still during wartime . A...

In 1860, New York City seriously considered leavin...  ...to secede from the Union was stopped short by the Civil War , but the rift between city and state continued fo...

In 1862, John Gilleland was a 53-year old carpenter in Athens, Georgia. He was too old to serve in the Confederate Army, but he was a private in a home guard unit. Determined to find some way to counteract the Union's ma...

In 1966, when Star Trek first graced our TV screen...  ...Star Trek universe, 2026 was the year that World War III began. This 45-year war led to a loss of 30% of the human population, and...  ...0 plant and animal species. Yes, it was a nuclear war that wiped out many of earth...

In American history classes, we only learn the big...  ...American Eevolution, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War , and oops, better skip ahead to World War II or the school year will run out. In all these...

You've heard about boys joining the army in the Civil War who were so young that they weren't given weapons...  ...n the US Army. He was twelve years old. After the war , in which Clem was wounded twice and captured onc...  ...retired as a brigadier general in 1915, the last Civil War...

Yukon Cornelius, the great mountain man of the fro...  ...ers a lightsaber -- an elegant weapon from a more civilized age. In Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back he almost dies when ca...

In 1934, two teenagers in Baltimore dug into the d...  ...discovered a literal pot of gold- a cache of pre- Civil War gold coins in a copper pot! The two boys, not ful...