New Year's Eve has often meant hardship for soldiers. This story honors their courage and sacrifice throughout history.

On Jan. 1, 1862, The New York Times declared “the darkest and gloomiest year in our country’s history has passed away.” The first day of the battle of Stones River, Tennessee ...

Exploration of the Battle of Stones River which was one of the hardest fought battles of the Civil War and took place between December 31, 1862 and January 2, 1863 with causalities of 27 percent ...

LOUISVILLE, Friday, Jan. 10, 1862 ... River that Gen. BOYLE was in Clinton County, with 5,000 Union men, advancing toward ZOLLICOFFER's rear; and that the rebels would be forced to give battle ...

Throughout written history weather events have influenced military outcomes. Scholars can point to Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 ...

At the year's first meeting of the Bella Vista Civil War Round Table on Jan. 2, Dale Phillips, vice president of the ...

Kidney stones affect millions yearly and, if neglected, can increase cancer risk. Long-standing stones may irritate the urinary tract, leading to malignancy. Symptoms include abdominal pain and ...

An estimated 200,000 to half million U.S. firearms are smuggled into Mexico every year —part of what's known as "the iron river ... five-hour gun battle with 600 cartel gunmen.

“Fort fisher was essentially America’s largest sand castle ever built,” Steele said. ”Construction began around early in 1861 ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ...

Later, she received an unexpected diagnosis: kidney stones, typically an affliction of older adults. Now 25, Pleskoff, a Seattle native who has endured more than 30 kidney stones, is part of a ...

Crucially, only Rodri and John Stones could better his success rate of 66 per cent for City last campaign. That has translated to attacking set-pieces, where Reis is a lot more aggressive in ...