Photo of Fort McKinney parade ground, circa 1884 courtesy of Johnson County Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum In the movie, “Geronimo, An American Legend, one of the soldiers who was instrumental in getting Geronimo to agree
True West Magazine
Anson Mills
A question came in the other day from a True West Magazine reader. “I’ve noticed that my leaving a cartridge in a leather gunbelt for an extended amount of time will turn the cartridge green where the cartridge and leather touch. I was wondering how the guys in the old west handled this? I am aware that they didn’t use up a bunch of cartridges each day as Hollywood would want you to believe.”
Those guys in the Old West had to constantly remove the cartridges and clean them lest they cause the pistol or rifle to jam.
This African American Old Grad Delivered a History of Race at West Point
Vietnam veteran and CEO of TAG Holdings, LLC, Joseph Anderson Jr. speaks at the 2021 Henry O. Flipper Awards Dinner at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. (U.S. Military Academy) There are plenty of Black folks who can sit in at counters, Col. Jim Fowler, the fifth African American graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, told Cadet Joe Anderson Jr. Your job is to get through West Point.
There were only 11 Black cadets at West Point when Anderson began his plebe year in 1961. It was the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, and he was struggling with not being out marching in the streets.
Why the United States Revoked Hundreds of Medals of Honor
Dr. Mary E. Walker was a civilian contract surgeon who was recommended for the Medal of Honor by Gen. William T. Sherman. Her award was revoked in 1917 and returned in 1977. (Library of Congress)
Dr. Mary Walker was a volunteer surgeon for the Union Army during the Civil War, treating the wounded in Washington and at the Battle of Bull Run.
Later, she became the first woman surgeon ever officially employed by the Army, seeing action at Fredericksburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga. In 1864, she was captured by Confederate soldiers and spent four months in a prisoner-of-war camp. After the war, she was awarded the Medal of Honor for her service.