“Our artillery is dropping a barrage directly on us. For heavens sake stop it.” – Lt. Col. Charles White Whittlesey via carrier pigeon message to C.O. 308th Infantry – Thinkful Thursday is courtesy of the Army Heritage Center Foundation
“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.” – Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller – Thinkful Thursday is courtesy of the Army Heritage Center Foundation
In 1894, 30 railroad employees were killed when President Grover Cleveland deployed 12,000 U.S. troops and several thousand U.S. Marshals to crush the wildcat Pullman Strike. Six days later, in the hopes of healing the wounds from this action, Congress...
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