Editor's note: first in a two-part series. Arthur MacArthur Jr., father of General Douglas MacArthur, was a Union Civil War hero recognized for bravery at the Battle of Missionary Ridge. MacArthur was ...
Born: Jan. 26, 1880, at Fort Little Rock, Ark. Family Background: His father, General Arthur MacArthur, was a Civil War colonel (“the Boy Colonel of the West”) who earned a Congressional Medal, became ...
On this day in 1863, Union soldiers — without waiting for orders — charged up Missionary Ridge under fire, dislodging the Confederates and ending the months-long siege of Chattanooga. Among the Union ...
"You couldn't shrug your shoulders at Douglas MacArthur," observes historian David McCullough. "There was nothing bland about him, nothing passive about him, nothing dull about him. There's no ...
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