After the Battle of Bull Run, the Union army started retreating when the Confederates pushed them back. The bridge got burned at Union Mills, got rebuilt, and burned again.

That July, Melcher was promoted to the rank of captain and assigned to the staff of Major Gen. G.K. Warren, of the Union Army’s 5th Corps. On April 9, 1865, ...

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Hitler, believing that he could win in the East by staging a decisive offensive in the south aimed at the Soviet Union's economic resources, launched a two-pronged attack on 28 June. Army Group A ...