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While history often remembers the April surrender at Appomattox Court House as the Civil War’s end, organized Confederate resistance lingered west of the Mississippi River. On May 26th, 1865, officials representing General Edmund Kirby Smith’s Trans-Mississippi Department agreed to terms that effectively surrendered the last large Confederate field command.
By December 15th, 1862, the Army of the Potomac was pulling back across the Rappahannock River after the bloody defeat at Fredericksburg.
In the early phase of the Mexican–American War, United States Navy ships under Commodore John D. Sloat arrived off Monterey, the principal Mexican port in Alta California. On July 7th, 1846, sailors and Marines landed, raised the American flag over the customs house, and proclaimed United States control of the town.
On the night of February 15th, 1898, the battleship USS Maine exploded and sank while riding at anchor in Havana Harbor, killing more than two hundred American sailors. The ship had been sent to Cuba during a period of unrest as a visible symbol of United States interest in the island’s struggle against Spanish rule. When the Maine erupted and settled into the harbor mud, the immediate cause was unclear, and controve
On December 29th, 1890, troops of the 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of Miniconjou Lakota near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, seeking to disarm them amid fears surrounding the Ghost Dance movement.
A German twin-engine heavy fighter intended to replace the Bf 110 but troubled by serious development problems.
Charles Melville — Ordinary Seaman U.S. Navy U.S. Civil War Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA
Daniel Montague — Chief Master-at-Arms U.S. Navy Spanish-American War Santiago de Cuba harbor entrance, Cuba
Edward Washburn Whitaker — Captain U.S. Army Civil War Reams' Station, Virginia, USA
Ferdinand Frederick Rohm — Chief Bugler U.S. Army Civil War Reams' Station, Virginia, USA
George Washington Mindil — Captain U.S. Army Civil War Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Harry Delmar Fadden — Coxswain U.S. Navy Interim 1899 - 1910 off the California coast, California, USA
James Milton Pipes — Captain U.S. Army Civil War Gettysburg & Reams Station, Pennsylvania & Virginia, USA
James Seanor — Master-at-Arms U.S. Navy U.S. Civil War Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA
John H Haight — Sergeant U.S. Army Civil War Williamsburg & Bristol Station & Manassas, Virginia, USA
John Nicholas Coyne — Sergeant U.S. Army U.S. Civil War Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
John S Stokes — Chief Master-of-Arms U.S. Navy Interim 1899 - 1910 off the coast of Jamaica, Jamaica
Martin Conboy — Sergeant U.S. Army U.S. Civil War Williamsburg, Virginia, USA