Steamboat At The Little Big Horn (The agile mountain steamboat’s role in the 1876 Indian Wars Campaign)
The defeat of LTC George Armstrong Custer’s famed 7th Cavalry by the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians on 25 June 1876 was the most memorable event of a larger U.S. Army campaign that began in May and concluded in late August of that year.
5th Infantry Regiment
With its lineage extending back to 1808 when the Army organized the 4th Infantry, the 5th Infantry Regiment is one of the Army’s longest serving infantry units. In 1815, several […]
Major General Hugh Lenox Scott
Hugh Lenox Scott was born in Danville, Kentucky, on 22 September 1853. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1876 and was commissioned a second lieutenant with the 9th Cavalry. Soon he […]
Major General Henry W. Lawton, USA
While he had served with distinction in the Civil War and Indian Wars, Henry W. Lawton rose to national prominence for his service in the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection. […]
Lieutenant General Nelson Appleton Miles
Nelson Appleton Miles was born near Westminster, Massachusetts, on 8 August 1839. He received a rudimentary military education from a former French officer and then joined a company of volunteers […]
The Battle of the Wabash: The Forgotten Disaster of the Indian Wars
By Patrick Feng, Foundation Programs and Operations Coordinator When Americans read or hear about the Indian Wars, they are exposed to the familiar names like Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and […]
The Battle of Fallen Timbers, 20 August 1794
By Matthew Seelinger, Chief Historian In the days of the early Republic, the U.S. Army suffered some of its most devastating defeats in its history. While the Continental Army of […]
