On the American frontier, the line between lawman and criminal could be thin. And perhaps no character of the wild west demonstrated that more than John Joshua Webb. If you don’t know his name, you’ll probably recognize the names of many of his friends, like Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday, Dirty Dave Rudabaugh, and Wyatt Earp.
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.