While metal detecting near the Battle of Port Hudson, we began uncovering Civil War artifacts that now lead us to believe we have found the final moments of a Civil War Cavalry Officer's final moments ...

leading Trotsky to mobilize former officers of the imperial army. In the years of the Civil War, up to 50,000 such officers served for the Soviet cause. While they mostly remained loyal to the ...

She may even have been among the several hundred females who, disguised as men, actually fought on the ground. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection Civil War officers of 3rd Regiment ...

After seizing control of Russia from the Provisional Government, the Bolsheviks had to safeguard their fragile grip on the reins of power. Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end ...