As any dog owner will tell you, every breed is unique, as is, of course, every dog. Yet some breeds are particularly recognizable, and have found a unique place in history. For more than a century, one breed has been identified with the noble profession of firefighting, it is history that deserves to be remembered.
In August of 1918, as the armies of Europe neared exhaustion, American troops of the 28th “Keystone” division were thrown into a nearly forgotten battle that fully represented the horrors of the War to End All Wars.
Of the vaunted ironclad warships of the US Civil War perhaps the mightiest and most terrifying was the confederate ram Tennessee. On August 5, 1864, she would be put to the test in the largest naval engagement of the war, an engagement that defined the divided loyalties of the War of the Rebellion.