The Saratoga campaign was the first time a British army had been forced to surrender in the field, and the first significant victory for the Continentals in the US War for Independence. In war there are many voices, but none louder than the artillery, and the guns of the Saratoga campaign have a story to tell.
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.