Over the years, generals, war heroes, West Point graduates and other revered figures have spoken at Memorial Day ceremonies at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. On Monday, a defendant in a federal ...

Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West Point graduate ... At the end of the war, Pickett and his remaining troops served at the Battle of ...

The history of the Founder's Day observance is more obscure, though often attributed to the period after the Civil War when West Point graduates from both sides met several times to re-kindle old ...

Go-aheadativeness.” That was the characterization offered by the Hannibal Daily Messenger in November 1859, for Maj. Thomas A ...