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Dean Warrick, former longtime resident and farmer near Amity, Oregon, passed into the presence of his Lord Jesus on November 10, 2022, in Keizer. Dean was born August ...

Easton Army officer shares the stories of his fallen comrades.

SUMMARY Ambrose E. Burnside was a major general in the Union army during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Instantly recognizable for his bushy sideburns (the term itself is derived from reversing his last name), Burnside was one of four men to command the Army of the Potomac in Virginia. Offered the job twice previously—following George B. McClellan‘s failed Peninsula Campaign in 1862 and following the Second Battle of Manassas later that summer—he turned it down, citing his own lack of experience and encouraging his peers and, subsequently, historians to question his self-confiden...

regiment – ten companies, commanded by a colonel brigade – four to six regiments, commanded by a brigadier general division – three to four brigades, commanded by a brigadier general or major general corps – several divisions, commanded by a major general army – several corps, commanded by a major general or lieutenant general department – the bureaucratic overseer of armies in the field; Union departments were often, but not always, named for rivers, Confederate departments for states or regions. Regiments were generally numbered and named for the state in which they were organiz...