The Civil War is a fascinating and tragic time in America's past. Only through the Civil War did the union of the states truly become stronger. Here is an overview...

With regard to civil war in Iraq, there exist two camps. Those that deny civil war can happen and those recommending everything possible to avoid it. This article offers a third - let civil war happen.

WASHINGTON -- The Army's 3rd Infantry Division, which helped lead the charge to Baghdad at the outset of the war, will return next year and become the first Army division to serve three tours in Iraq....

On this date the Iron Brigade (Western soldiers) fought their first battle at Browner Farm. The unit was composed of Wisconsin's 2nd Infantry, 6th Infantry, 7th Infantry, and the 19th Indiana Infantry, 24th Michigan Infantry, and Battery B of the 4th U.S. Light Artillery and was well known for its valor at such Civil War battles as Bull Run, Antietam and Gettysburg. Source: WHS Card File.

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On this date Ormsby Brunson Thomas was born in Sandgate, Vermont and moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1836. Thomas graduated from the National Law School in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. in 1856. He commenced legal practice in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and served as district attorney of Crawford County. Thomas was captain of Company D, Thirty-first Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and went on to serve as a member of the State assembly in 1862, 1865, and 1867, and a member in the State senate in 1880 and 1881. Thomas then went on to be elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth through Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891). After an unsuccessful bid for reelection in 1890, Thomas resumed his legal practice in Prairie du Chien and died there October 24, 1904. Source: Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress

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