The death of William Henry Harrison had significant consequences, including the collapse of a major political party. And the story of how he died that most of us learned in school is almost certainly false. In fact, he might well have been the victim of a serial killer of presidents- the water in Washington DC.
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.