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James Ward ( Medal of Honor ) James Ward ( born 1833 , date of death unknown ) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U . S . military ' s highest decoration , the Medal of Honor , for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay . Born in 1833 in New York City , Ward was still living in the state of New York when he joined the Navy . He served during the Civil War as a quarter gunner on the . At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5 , 1864 , he was wounded as his ship engaged the at close range . Refusing to go below decks , he instead manned a gun after its crew had become casualties , and then took depth sounding s ( " heaved the lead " ) from platforms on the side of the ship ' s hull ( known as the chains ) until nearly being crushed when " Lackawanna " rammed " Tennessee " . For this action , he was awarded the Medal of Honor four months later , on December 31 , 1864 . Ward ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : Serving as gunner on board the U . S . S . " Lackawanna " during successful attacks against Fort Morgan , rebel gunboats and the ram " Tennessee " in Mobile Bay , 5 August 1864 . Although wounded and ordered below , Ward refused to go , but rendered aid at one of the guns when the crew was disabled . He subsequently remained in the chains , heaving the lead , until nearly caught in the collision with the ram " Tennessee " . He continued to serve bravely throughout the action which resulted in the capture of the prize ram " Tennessee " and in the damaging and destruction of Fort Morgan .
Sangjwa Sangjwa is a Korean military rank used by the armed forces of North Korea . The insignia for a " sangjwa " is a shoulder board containing two stripes and three stars . This is influenced by the former colonel insignia of the Soviet Union . North Korea also maintains a senior colonel rank known as " taejwa " .
Alhaji Grunshi RSM Alhaji Grunshi DCM MM was the first soldier in British service to fire a shot in the First World War . Germany ' s West African colony of Togoland was isolated from the rest of the German Empire , with the British Gold Coast to the west , French Dahomey to the east , and French West Africa to the north . Following the declaration of war by the British Empire on 4 August 1914 , the colony was completely cut off from reinforcement . With no German military presence in Togoland in 1914 , the colony was defenceless other than a police force of 660 Togolese police officers serving under 10 German sergeants . Although containing few resources of value to Germany , Togoland was strategically vital to the defence of Germany ' s overseas empire , with the powerful Kamina radio transmitters near Atakpamé the only radio link between Germany and its colonies of German Southwest Africa and German East Africa , as well as the only means of radio communication between Germany and shipping in the South Atlantic . Following the declaration of war , troops of the Gold Coast Regiment entered Togoland from the British Gold Coast and advanced on the capital , Lomé . An advance patrol of the Gold Coast Regiment encountered the German - led police force on 7 August 1914 at a factory in Nuatja , near Lomé , and the police force opened fire on the patrol . Alhaji Grunshi returned fire , the first soldier in British service to fire a shot in the war . On 8 August 1914 the commander of the police , Hauptmann Pfaeler , was shot after climbing a tree to get a better view of the Gold Coast Regiment , and resistance collapsed . German technicians destroyed the Kamina transmitters on 24 August , and Togoland surrendered to the British and French on 26 August 1914 . Grunshi survived the war , having fought in three African campaigns , and as a Lance Corporal was Mentioned in Despatches on 5 March 1918 . On 13 March 1919 , now a Sergeant , he was awarded the Military Medal for his part in the East African Campaign .
USS Kirkpatrick ( DE - 318 ) USS " Kirkpatrick " ( DE - 318 ) was an Edsall - class destroyer escort built for the U . S . Navy during World War II . She served in the Atlantic Ocean the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys . Post - war , she was converted to a radar picket ship to support the DEW Line . She was named in honor of Chaplain Thomas L . Kirkpatrick who was killed in action , aboard the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 . She was launched 5 June 1943 , by Consolidated Steel Corp . , Orange , Texas , sponsored by Mrs . Genevieve Kirkpatrick , widow of Captain Kirkpatrick , and commissioned 23 October 1943 , Lt . Comdr . V . E . Bakanas , USCG , in command . World War II North Atlantic operations . After shakedown along the Atlantic Coast , " Kirkpatrick " arrived Norfolk , Virginia , 23 December 1943 , to commence transatlantic escort duty . From January 1944 to May 1945 she made one convoy escort mission to the Mediterranean , and 10 crossings between the United States and the British Isles . On her third voyage , USS Gandy ( DE - 764 ) another escort in the convoy rammed a German submarine U - 550 after the U - boat had sunk tanker SS Pan Pennsylvania . Eleven prisoners from the sunken enemy submarine were captured in this action of 16 April 1944 . Transfer to the Pacific Fleet . " Kirkpatrick " returned New York on completion of her final transatlantic escort mission 15 May 1945 . After bombardment exercises in the Caribbean , she sailed for the Pacific . She entered Pearl Harbor 11 July , for tactics with submarines in Hawaiian waters until 29 August when she departed on an escort cruise to the Far East Departing Sasebo 2 November , " Kirkpatrick " arrived Charleston , South Carolina , 8 December 1945 , via Pearl Harbor and the Panama Canal . She arrived Jacksonville , Florida , 5 days later and decommissioned 1 May 1946 , at Green Cove Springs , Florida . Converted to Radar Picket Ship . " Kirkpatrick " was reclassified a radar picket ship ( DER - 318 ) on 1 October 1951 , and recommissioned 23 February 1952 , Lt . Comdr . George S . Davis in command . After shakedown and training out of Guantanamo Bay , Cuba , " Kirkpatrick " reported to Newport , Rhode Island , 11 July 1952 , for radar picket operations on the Atlantic Barrier , the seaward extension of the Distant Early Warning ( DEW ) line across northern Canada . She manned radar picket stations in the North Atlantic until 1960 , a seaborne unit of the air defense system of the United States and Canada . Incidental to this service she visited ports of northern Europe in the summers of 1958 and 1959 . The radar picket ship departed Newport 27 March 1960 , and arrived Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , 2 days later . Final Decommissioning . She decommissioned there 24 June 1960 , and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet . She was struck from the Navy list on 1 August 1974 and was sold for scrapping 12 March 1975 .
George E . A . Hallett Colonel George Eustace Amyot Hallett ( May 9 , 1890 – June 2 , 1982 ) was a pioneer aviator . With John Cyril Porte he was going to cross the Atlantic in a Curtiss Model H called " America " but was prevented by the start of World War I . Biography . He was born on May 9 , 1890 in England . With John Cyril Porte he was going to cross the Atlantic in a Curtiss Model H called " America " . They were prevented by the start of World War I . He died on June 2 , 1982 in San Diego , California . Legacy . His papers are archived at the San Diego Air and Space Museum .
Maximilian von Laffert Maximilian August Hermann Julius von Laffert ( 10 May 1855 in Lindau – 10 May 1917 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Saxon officer , later General of Cavalry during World War I . He was a recipient of the Pour le Mérite . Maximilian von Laffert suffered a heart attack while commanding his troops in France and died later in Frankfurt on 20 July 1917 . He is interred at the Nordfriedhof in Dresden .
Samsung SGR - A1 The Samsung SGR - A1 is a South Korean military robot sentry designed to replace human counterparts in the demilitarized zone at the South and North Korea border . It is a stationary system made by Samsung defense subsidiary Samsung Techwin . History . In 2006 , Samsung Techwin announced a $ 200 , 000 , all weather , 5 . 56 mm robotic machine gun and optional grenade launcher to guard the Korean DMZ . It is capable of tracking multiple moving targets using IR and visible light cameras , and is under the control of a human operator . The Intelligent Surveillance and Guard Robot can " identify and shoot a target automatically from over two miles ( 3 . 2 km ) away . " The robot , which was developed by a South Korean university , uses " twin optical and infrared sensors to identify targets from 2 . 5 miles ( 4 km ) in daylight and around half that distance at night . " It is also equipped with communication equipment ( a microphone and speakers ) , " so that passwords can be exchanged with human troops . " If the person gives the wrong password , the robot can " sound an alarm or fire at the target using rubber bullets or a swivel - mounted K - 3 machine gun . " South Korea ' s soldiers in Iraq are " currently using robot sentries to guard home bases . "
List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy This is a list of patrol vessels of the United States Navy . PC , Submarine Chaser . These submarine chaser s were 173 feet long and used the PC designation . The large missing sections of numbers in designation for the most part come from sharing the same number set as the other much smaller 110 - foot submarine chasers that used the SC designation . " 497 - 507 used by SC submarine chasers " " 511 to 522 used by SC submarine chasers " " 524 - 539 used by SC submarine chasers " PE , Eagle - Class Patrol Craft . Of 112 Eagle class patrol craft planned 60 of these WWI era ships were completed , being given numbers from 1 to 60 . PE - 61 through PE - 112 were cancelled on November 30 , 1918 . PE - 5 , PE - 15 , PE - 25 , PE - 45 , PE - 65 , PE - 75 , PE - 86 , PE - 95 , PE - 105 , and PE - 112 were allotted for transfer to Italy , though this plan was cancelled and none were ever delivered . PR , River Gunboat . All built in Shanghai to serve on the Yangtze Patrol . SC , Submarine Chaser . These submarine chaser s were 110 feet long and used the SC designation . The large missing sections of numbers in designation for the most part come from sharing the same number set as the other bigger 173 foot subchasers that used the PC designation . SC 497 Class . Mainly SC - 497 to 775 , SC - 977 to 1076 , SC - 1267 to 1367 , SC - 1474 to 1626 . Also several were modified to be SCC ' s a command versions . " 509 and 510 used by PC submarine chasers " " 523 used by PC submarine chaser " " 776 - 976 used by PC submarine chasers " " 1077 - 1265 used by PC submarine chasers " SC - 1474 to SC - 1626 . " ( incomplete listing ) " World War I Section Patrol ( SP ) and Identification Number ( ID ) Series . Incomplete listing of civilian boats and ships commissioned during World War I for use as section patrol ( SP ) craft and civilian cargo ships , tankers , transports , etc . , commissioned for U . S . Navy use during World War and given non - " SP " identification numbers ( ID ) in the " SP " numbering series .
Sanila ( lieutenant ) Sanila ( ? 800 - 834 ) was a Gothic magnate , lieutenant of the count Gaucelm of Rosselló , Empúries , Conflent and Rasez . What is known of his life is linked to " Gaucelm " . Sanila was his staunch lieutenant . The most notable surviving recorded incident about him was in 820 , when Sanila beat the count Berà in a judicial duel ( see Berà ) , which resulted in Berà losing his lands and being exiled , although Gaucelm did not immediately gain power over his estates as planned . Gaucelm and Sanila defended Chalon - sur - Saône against the assault of Lothar in 834 . The city was taken and Gaucelm and Sanila were captured and executed .
Stapelburg Castle The Stapelburg ( ) is a ruined mediæeval castle built to guard the road on the northern edge of the Harz mountains at Stapelburg in the district of Harz in the German state of Saxony - Anhalt . History . The Stapelburg was built before 1306 by the Counts of Wernigerode to guard the military road that connected the counts ' main ancestral castle with the imperial and mining town of Goslar . It also acted as a toll station . The castle was enfeoffed several times and in 1394 came into the possession of the Diocese of Halberstadt for a sum of 600 marks . On 25 January 1432 , Count Botho of Stolberg accepted Stapelburg Castle and its estate from Bishop John of Halberstadt as a pledge , after it should have been previously enfeoffed to the last Wernigerode count who had died in 1429 . But Stapelburg was redeemed again by the Diocese of Halberstadt and pledged to Heinrich von Bila , who was the last vassal before Stapelburg was enfeoffed by Bishop Gebhard von Halberstadt on 4 June 1463 for 200 Rhenish guilders to Count Henry the Elder of Stolberg for the duration of his life - that is until 1511 . During his final years the castle fell somewhat into ruin . On 13 April 1509 the aging Count Botho and his son committed to the administrator of the Bishopric of Halberstadt , Archbishop Ernest of Magdeburg , to rebuild the dilapidated castle within eight years , so that a nobleman or steward could have his seat there . As a result the count of Stolberg and his son were enfeoffed with the Stapelburg . In 1559 Archbishop Sigismund of Magdeburg , as the administrator of the Bishopric of Halberstadt , installed an influential member of the family of Bila , former Halberstadt councillor , Dr . Heinrich von Bila , who worked as an associate judge on the Imperial Chamber Court , in the Stapelburg , against the will of the heavily indebted counts of Stolberg . He expanded the castle and had the outlying estate of Bilenshausen or Bilashausen laid out at its foot . In the immediate vicinity of this outwork a rural settlement grew up that also adopted the name Stapelburg . The heirs of Dr . von Bila sold the castle and village of Stapelburg in 1596 for 45 , 000 talers to Statius von Munchausen . After Statius ' bankruptcy in 1619 possession of the castle went again in 1625 to Halberstadt Cathedral . After long negotiations with the cathedral chapter of Halberstadt , Count Christian Ernest of Stolberg - Wernigerode who succeeded , in a Berlin agreement on 11 March 1722 , in securing Stapelburg permanently as an appurtenance of the County of Wernigerode for the next few centuries . King Frederick William I of Prussia restored its old connection with the County of Wernigerode on 11 December 1727 by removing the territorial claims of the now Prussian Halberstadt Cathedral Chapter .
American Freedmen ' s Inquiry Commission The American Freedmen ' s Inquiry Commission was charged by U . S . Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton in March 1863 with investigating the status of the slaves and former slaves who were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation . Stanton appointed Samuel Gridley Howe , James McKaye , and Robert Dale Owen as commissioners , all three of whom served from the creation of the committee in 1863 through to their submission of its final report in May 1864 . These committees traveled south and interviewed former slaves and Union field commanders to get a better grasp of what the situation in the South was . The Commission helped with the transition of African Americans from a life of slavery to a free life . The Commission used Federal money to establish schools and churches in the South in an attempt to employ and educate former slaves . The Commission ' s mission was successful , and the bill ' s life was extended in Congress in January 1866 . The Union Army stole from African American Virginia " contrabands " . The following documents the looting : Bibliography . Owen , Robert Dale , James McKaye , and Samuel G . Howe . " Preliminary Report Touching the Condition and Management of Emancipated Refugees ; Made to the Secretary of War , by the American Freedmen ' s Inquiry Commission " , June 30 , 1863 . New York , NY : John F . Trow , 1863 .
United States Space Command The United States Space Command ( USSPACECOM ) was a Unified Combatant Command of the United States Department of Defense , created in 1985 to help institutionalize the use of outer space by the United States Armed Forces . The Commander in Chief of U . S . Space Command ( CINCUSSPACECOM ) , with headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base , Colorado was also the Commander in Chief of the binational U . S . - Canadian " North American Aerospace Defense Command " ( CINCNORAD ) , and for the majority of time during USSPACECOM ’ s existence also the Commander of the U . S . Air Force major command Air Force Space Command . Military space operations coordinated by USSPACECOM proved to be very valuable for the U . S . - led coalition in the 1991 Persian Gulf War . The U . S . military has relied on satellite communications , intelligence , navigation , missile warning and weather systems in areas of conflict since at least the early 1990s , including the Balkans , Southwest Asia and Afghanistan . Space systems have since then been considered as indispensable providers of tactical information to U . S . forces . As part of the ongoing initiative to transform the U . S . military , on June 26 , 2002 , Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced that U . S . Space Command would merge with USSTRATCOM . The Unified Command Plan directed that Unified Combatant Command s be capped at ten , and with the formation of the new United States Northern Command , one would have to be deactivated in order to maintain that level . Thus the USSPACECOM merger into an expanded USSTRATCOM , which would retain the U . S . Strategic Command name and would be headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base . The merger was intended to improve combat effectiveness and speeds up information collection and assessment needed for strategic decision - making . Within STRATCOM , responsibilities for space were first held by the Joint Functional Component Command for Space and Global Strike until July 2006 when the command was divided . Space operations are now overseen by the Joint Functional Component Command for Space . Awards and decorations . Joint Meritorious Unit Award : 2 August 1990 - 2 March 1991 ; 1 July 1992 - 26 August 1996 ; 1 January 1999 - 30 September 2002 .
Petersburg Confederate order of battle The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Siege of Petersburg of the American Civil War . The following Order of Battle is the Organization from the Confederate forces near Petersburg of October 27 , 1864 . Abbreviations used . Other . = Confederate Forces Near Petersburg = Gen Robert E . Lee Army of Northern Virginia . Gen Robert E . Lee First Corps . LTG James Longstreet Third Corps . LTG A . P . Hill Fourth Corps . LTG Richard H . Anderson Cavalry Corps . MG Wade Hampton III Department of Richmond . LTG Richard S . Ewell Richmond Forces . MG James L . Kemper Post of Richmond . BG William M . Gardner Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia . Gen Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard References . http : / / www . brettschulte . net / CWBlog / regimental - level - orders - of - battle /
Emma Sansom Emma Sansom ( June 2 , 1847 – August 9 , 1900 ) was an Alabama farmgirl noted for her bravery during the American Civil War . Sansom was a native of Social Circle , Georgia , and moved with her family to just outside Gadsden , Alabama , in about 1852 . In April 1863 , Confederate Brig . Gen . Nathan Bedford Forrest was ordered into northern Alabama to pursue Union Colonel Abel Streight , who had orders to cut off the Confederate railroad near Chattanooga , Tennessee . On May 2 , 1863 , Streight arrived just outside of Gadsden and prepared to cross Black Creek . Because the creek was swollen due to rain , Streight realized that if he destroyed the bridge he could get a few hours respite from the pursuit of Forrest . Seeing the nearby Sansom farmhouse , he rode upon it and demanded some smoldering coal , which he could use to burn the bridge . When Forrest ' s men arrived at the site , they found the burned out bridge and came under fire from Streight ' s men . Forrest rode to the Sansom house and asked whether there was another bridge across the creek . Emma Sansom , then 15 years old , told him that the nearest bridge was in Gadsden , 2 miles away . Forrest then asked if there was a place where he could get across the creek . Emma told him that if one of his men would help saddle her horse , she would show him a place that she had seen cows cross the creek , and that he might be able to cross there . He replied that there was no time to saddle a horse and asked her to get on his horse behind him . As they started to leave , Emma ' s mother objected , but relented when Forrest assured her that he would bring the girl back safely . Emma then directed Forrest to the spot where he could cross the river . Some accounts of the skirmish indicate that the two came under fire from Union soldiers , who subsequently ceased fire when they realized that a young girl was showing them the way . After taking Emma back to her home , Forrest continued his pursuit of Streight . Emma ' s heroism is noteworthy in that openly aiding Confederate forces could have subjected her and her family to prosecution ( or even death ) from the Union Army . Sansom married Christopher B . Johnson on October 29 , 1864 , and moved to Texas in late 1876 or early 1877 . She died August 9 , 1900 in Upshur County , Texas , and is buried in Little Mound Cemetery . Honors . In 1907 , a monument was constructed in Gadsden at the western end of the Broad Street bridge across the Coosa River in honor of her heroism . When the residents of Alabama City , Alabama ( later annexed into Gadsden ) built a high school in 1929 , they named it in her honor . With the consolidation of the three Gadsden city high schools at the end of the 2006 school year , General Forrest Middle School was closed and Emma Sansom High School became Emma Sansom Middle School .
Château du Grand - Besse The Château du Grand - Besse is a castle in the " commune " of Saint - Maur in the Cher " département " of France . Architecture . The present castle consists of a very robust square keep , lit by mullioned windows . This keep from the early 15th century dates the construction , or reconstruction , of the castle . Of the surrounding walls , the only remains are a round tower and stretch of wall and part of a moat still filled with water . Also from the same era are a round staircase tower with small square windows and , in the south east , a doorway opening into the courtyard whose lintel is decorated with an escutcheon . The new residence dates from the 17th century and was enlarged in the 19th with the addition of a neo - gothic staircase tower . The residential building is of rectangular plan , with a staircase tower in the centre . A small brick " pepperpot " ( not accessible ) is in one corner . The roof is crowned with metal spikes . The farm buildings are decorated with alternate layers of brick and stone . Château du Grand - Besse is listed as a " monument historique " by the French Ministry of Culture .