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Wild West February 2006 John D. McDermott	Brule Sioux Spotted Tail's Pledge of Peace War and a terrible winter were fresh memories when the tearful Spotted Tail was allowed to bury his daughter at Fort Laramie. This helped convince the Brule Sioux leader to bury the hatchet forever.
Wild West February 2006 John D. McDermott	Brule Sioux Chief Spotted Tail Spotted Tail, chief of the Brules, showed much martial prowess in his younger days, only to became a highly respected peace chief. But he was not destined to die peacefully.
Wild West June 2006 Robert W. Larson	Sioux Chief Gall: In the Shadow of Sitting Bull Soldiers gave the Hunkpapa leader his nickname because he was a dashing warrior who effectively teamed up with Sitting Bull in the 1870s. But after his surrender in 1881, Gall stood up for cooperation and peace at Standing Rock.
Wild West July 3, 2004 J. Jay Myers	Tecumseh, Red Cloud and Sitting Bull: Three Great Indian Leaders Diplomacy, courage and charisma were among the attributes of this trio of great Indian leaders.
Wild West Robert Foster	Buffalo Soldiers in Utah Territory At Fort Duchesne, black 9th Cavalry troops served alongside white infantrymen while dealing with the sometimes restless Ute Indians and the wild and woolly Duchesne Strip.
Wild West December 6, 2004 Wayne R. Austerman	Bold Rally Against the Odds at Fort Lancaster Captain William Frohock, Lieutenant Frederick Smith and the black troopers of Company K, 9th Cavalry, received an after-Christmas surprise from Kickapoo raiders in 1867.
Wild West Robert Benjamin Smith	Buffalo Bill's Skirmish At Warbonnet Creek Three weeks after the disaster at the Little Bighorn, Buffalo Bill claimed he had taken 'the first scalp for Custer!' And soon the famous scout was doing it all over again on the stage.
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Wild West J. Jay Myers	The Notorious Fight At Sand Creek More often called a massacre than a battle, the attack by Colonel John M. Chivington's Colorado volunteers on Chief Black Kettle's village will forever be controversial.
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Wild West December 2005 Gregory Michno	Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle is usually portrayed as a man of peace, a visionary and more, but is that the stuff of legend and myth?
Wild West William A. Dobak	Buffalo Soldiers: Sorting Fact from Fiction Known as buffalo soldiers, though they did not use that term themselves, the black servicemen who saw duty in the Wild West generally had the same burdens and privileges as their white counterparts.
American History December 2005 Charles Phillips	Wounded Knee Massacre The intermittent war between the United States and the Plains Indians that stretched across some three decades after the Civil War came to an end on December 29, 1890, at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Military History James P. Myers	General Forbes' Road to War Rather than repeat Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock's disastrous march on Fort Duquesne through western Virginia in 1755, in 1758 Brig. Gen. John Forbes took a new route -- carved through the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania.
Military History Quarterly August 2007 Willard Sterne Randall	The First American Victory: Ethan Allen Takes Fort Ticonderoga Ethan Allen led his Vermont militia on a daring mission to capture Fort Ticonderoga -- and in so doing gave George Washington the means to expel the British from New England.
Wild West Gregory F. Michno	The Real Villains of Sand Creek Colonel John Chivington and Colorado Territorial Governor John Evans are usually portrayed as the men who brought on the 1864 "massacre." But, in this fresh perspective, the true scoundrels in the affair are a half-dozen others, with Major Edward Wynkoop at the top of the list.
Military History Quarterly Spring 2006 Stuart W. Sanders	Robert Charles Tyler: Last Civil War Confederate General Slain in Combat Against impossible odds and following orders issued half a year earlier, Robert Charles Tyler became the last Confederate general slain in Civil War combat.
America's Civil War March 10, 2005 Fred L. Ray	Pre-Dawn Assault on Fort Stedman Led by select groups of sharpshooters, the weary, muddy troops of the Army of Northern Virginia made one last desperate push to break out of Petersburg.
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National Defense December 2003 Harold Kennedy	To Ease Deployments, Army Revamps Way It Runs Bases Seeking to ease longstanding problems exacerbated by frequent troop deployments to fight the war on terrorism, the U.S. Army is reorganizing the way that it runs its military bases across the United States and around the world.
America's Civil War July 2005 Jeffry C. Burden	Failed Attack at Vicksburg Ulysses S. Grant thought his formidable Army of the Tennessee could take Vicksburg from a "beaten" foe by direct assault. He was wrong, thanks to near-impregnable fortifications, renewed Southern spirit, and surprisingly suspect Northern generalship.
National Defense October 2004 Harold Kennedy	Army Undergoing Biggest Makeover Since World War II The U.S. Army has embarked upon what is described as its most important and controversial reorganization in decades in an effort to improve its ability to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while defending the home front.
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America's Civil War March 2007 Thomas M. Hammond	William H. Carney: 54th Massachusetts Soldier and First Black U.S. Medal of Honor Recipient Carney's grit at Fort Wagner in 1863 earned him the distinction of being the first black soldier to receive the Medal of Honor.
Smithsonian May 2005 Landon Y. Jones	Tribal Fever Twenty-five years ago this month, smallpox was officially eradicated. For the Indians of the high plains, it came a century and a half too late.
National Defense October 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Northwestern Cities Peg Prosperity to Army Programs Towns in the Pacific Northwest are hoping the expansion of the Army's Stryker brigades and the development of the Future Combat Systems will lead to continued economic benefits to the area.
America's Civil War July 19, 2004 William C. Lowe	Big Gun Bombardment of Port Royal As Union warships steamed past the Confederate defenses near Port Royal, Flag Officer Samuel Du Pont proudly noted that army officers aboard his ship looked on 'with wonder and admiration.' A revolution in naval tactics had begun.
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National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright	Army Leaders Prepare for War, Peace and Everything In Between The military is transitioning from a group of one-track warriors to a force of multitaskers who can advise, assist and attack.
National Defense December 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Revises Doctrine for Modular Brigades Caught between the pressures of war in the Middle East and the need to reorganize, the U.S. Army is juggling new methods of combat training while rewriting the rulebook for equipment and tactics.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Army Convoy Simulators Use InterSense Trackers Virtual Convoy Operations Trainer (VCOT) will use InertiaCube2 sensors to track troops' heads and weapons as they train in the simulated environment.
National Defense December 2009 Erwin & Wright	Ft. Polk Brigade to Produce 6,000 Advisors Per Year to Train Iraqi and Afghan Forces In the coming months, the Army will be augmenting its brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan with hundreds of additional officers who will take on the duties of advising and training those nations' forces.
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National Defense August 2006 David Axe	Training Center Simulates Army's Digital Battle Command Technology A new high-tech facility will allow Army planners to concoct realistic training scenarios for units heading to Iraq. These advanced computer networks will connect real-world Army battle-command and control systems with digital simulations.
National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Dangerous Convoy Duties Prompt Expanded Training for Truck Crews The Army is intensifying the training drills required for truck drivers and maintenance crews heading to Iraq.
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National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright	Troops Learn From Foreign Role-Players The Army is using replicated war zones and cultural education to prepare U.S. troops who will help the Iraqi and Afghan armies assume security duties in the war-ravaged countries.