History of The First Medal of Honor

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I spent 2 years at Ft Huachuca, AZ in ole Cochise terratory. A lot happened there...way before my time.

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I hope your neighbour is Apache...he'll understand. But if he's European, he'll probably come and steal your house and land from you, then make you live in the local dump and give you cornavirus infected blankets.

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Silently Sceptical I'm from San Diego, CA(USA), and graduated high school in '75. We touched on WWII, but not to any greater extent than the Roman Empire; Egyptian Empire, Civil War(US); Revolutionary Wars, etc. A lot of history centers on wars(conflicts), and that's just the way it is...but I am fascinated about most all history and can read (escape) for countless hours and not be bored at all. Much of our FACTUAL history over time has been re-written from what I learned in my school years, which to this day glosses over many things. Enjoy whatever you may spend time on-- that's the key, to enjoy it or move on to another topic. God Bless you.

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[@57WillysCJ]

Mickey Free was quite a character. Someone you didn't mess with if you had half a brain. Described as part Irish, part Mexican, part Apache and all SOB. There are at least two books on him. Dan Thrapp's book on Al Seiber has good information on Mickey. Mickey had a type of honor that few of his contemporaries understood. I believe Mickey is the one that called Tom Horn Talking Boy because he did a lot of it. Some times the scouts are listed as mule packers on the army payroll. They didn't want to loose experienced scouts because of budget cuts so listed them in a different capacity. I believe he went to Washington DC with Chato on a peace mission.

[@ernestturnage3653]

Thank you so much for referring to the award as the Medal of Honor and omitting the incorrect congressional precedent. I have always been amazed by the nuances and obscurities found in history and it's great having someone who has the knowledge and ability to present it.

[@Ni999]

The congressional prefix confusion is understandable - law.justia.com/codes/us/1997/title36/chap33/ www.cmohs.org/society-history.php It didn't help that that act was named that way - I certainly don't know why that happened.

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Excellent. I enjoy history too and being born and raised in Arizona particularly liked this video. Thanks for your work.

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[@donalddodson7365]

Very informative! You rightfully pointed out how crucial accurate cultural understanding becomes in warmaking. Myself, a Vietnam Veteran, experienced the effects first hand of one culture (e.g. the U.S.) missing the realities of the Vietnamese culture. Such values as the importance of "saving face," of telling someone what you think they want to hear rather than the awkward truth, and the ethnocentrism of white people's habitual error of assuming their superiority to non-whites. Clearly, set in motion a great deal of suffering and hatred as the European and Spanish-Mexican expansions pinned down the Native Americans. (PS: Served a year at an Army Post named after Colonel Irwin and almost 5 months at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, surrounded by Cochise' territory.) Fantastic capsule of information: language groups, significantly different cultures within Native American peoples, preventable conflicts as encroachment grew, etc.

[@matthewoffenbacher6548]

A super excellent amount of detail regarding Apaches.

[@jackfowler6249]

Hello - I'm the guy who wrote about the blue Merchant Marine cover. I am constantly amazed at how many of your episodes touch my own history in some way. I grew up in SE Arizona in a small town called Sierra Vista outside the Army base of Ft. Huchuchuca (forgive the spelling) in Cochise County. I had only heard bits and pieces of the conflict between the Apache and people coming from the East but this HG episode filled in many of the blanks. Doing an episode about Ft. Huchuchuca might be interesting with Buffalo Shoulders or the fact that the Army once had camels there. Oh - "huchuchuca" is the Apache word for thunder due to a mountain range that storms build up against. I grew up in sight of the Huchuchuca Mountains. (pronounced YA-choo-ka) Odd don't you think, that a guy who grew up in the desert spent most of his life at sea?

[@jeffvolimas5819]

History is just that, good bad or indifferent it is our history. as so often as the case, many of us here in North America forget that Europeans did not discover this land but in fact was already occupied by an indigenous people with different cultures and different and beliefs. If we don't remember our history we are doomed to repeat it. Thank you Lance for always serving up a wonderful reminder of historical events. By the way, great bow tie.

[@rexfrommn3316]

The Medal of Honor isn't really a medal you want. Just like you really don't want a Purple Heart. Most Medal of Honors are awarded posthumously. Most Purple Hearts mean a serious battle wound with loss of a limb, brain damage, spinal injury, loss of an eye or a serious burn wounds over most of your body. Many Purple Hearts are also awarded posthumously. Most guys who are lucky enough to survive to get a very rare Medal of Honor, nearly all say they accepted the Medal to Honor in the memory of the sacrifices of their friends who didn't get to come home alive or in one piece. Most Medal of Honor winners were ordinary guys who got into a tough spot where many others were doing exceptional things on a battlefield but didn't live or have survivors to witness their deeds. Most of these surviving veterans were just trying desperately in the often vain hope to survive to see another day. Most of these veterans feared letting their friends in the platoon family down in combat more than being killed in combat. Novelist and historian James Jones talked about the evolution of a soldier in a combat zone and the tough de-evolution process a veteran faces all alone on the home front during peacetime in civilian after he has left his military platoon family. The Ira Hayes' story, of an Arizona Hopi Indian, Marine Corps veteran, who won nationwide recognition for raising the flag on Iwo Jima, is appropriate. Ira Hayes died of alcoholism in a drainage ditch in Arizona at age 33. The demons of war claimed another highly decorated veteran and national icon on the homefront. Colonel Kit Carson drove the warlike Navaho bands onto the reservation during the Civil War in the New Mexico and Arizona territory. We should note that in the Apache wars in Arizona that Apache bands under Chief Cochise and later Geronimo, had a huge advantage in the mountainous terrain straddling both U.S. and Mexican territory. It took many thousands of American soldiers with Apache scouts chasing after the Apache bands for years. The Apache's knew every waterhole, avenue of escape, and hiding place putting them always a half a day's ride ahead of the U.S. Army troopers. An Army mule driver and scout named Tom Horn learned scouting and tracking skills along with the local Spanish and Apache dialect during the Geronimo war. Tom Horn became brutalized by the Apache wars seeing plenty of vicious killing and close quarters fights on the Arizona frontier. He also is thought to have had an Apache wife who gave him a child. Tom Horn went on to become a feared regulator and tracker of cattle rustlers. These skills were learned during the Apache war years. Tom Horn was a skilled mule driver for Army, going to Cuba during the Spanish American war. Tom Horn should have have stuck with being a mule driver for the Army. Both Kit Carson and the real Tom Horn are great but flawed men worth remembering.

[@9HighFlyer9]

My grandfather received 3 Purple Hearts in WW2. I can confirm he would rather have never been injured. He carried shrapnel and bullet fragments along his spine and between his heart and aorta the rest of his days. I know both caused him discomfort for nearly 60 years. Edit: Ira Hayes was Pima not Hopi. Coincidencently my grandpa ended up in Arizona. I still live here.

[@JDS11ify]

Although I might be wrong, it is my understanding that any war wound would be rewarded with a purple heart. History says that Tom Horn was murdered by towns folk after completing a contract to ' clean up the town'. He did such a good job, the 'town fathers' feared him. Yes, a flawed man, but still did a necessary job.

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I am working on it.

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Excellent Video, We should have more videos about other forgotten wars throughout American History

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[@DougHocking]

Bascom's two reports and Moore's are all readily available, not lost. No contemporary source says that Bascom demanded the return of the boy in return of the the release of the "hostages" that had accidentally come into Bascom's possession. Instead they all agree that Bascom demanded the return of all four hostages that Cochise was known to be holding, this did not include the boy, and Cochise offered only Wallace and would not let the other three go. The boy came be known as Mickey Free, not Fee. See The Black Legend: George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars. Otherwise, a pretty good presentation.

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[@garfieldsmith332]

A most enjoyable forgotten episode of history. Earlier today I was reading that on May 23, 1900 Sergeant William Harvey Carney of the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery on July 18, 1863; 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.

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[@richardmattingly7000]

The Medal of Honor has been awarded for dubious reasons at times, Charles Lindbergh got one for his flight to Paris because he was in the Army Reserve and one Civil War veteran simply requested one as a souvenir. The worst abuse though came during that war, 964 were issued to the 27th Maine for just 311 of its men staying a few days after there enlistments ended in 1963 and hundreds were stolen/lost from its commander's barn when he no longer sought to give them out to its scattered men. The 27th only lost 20 men and 19 of those were from disease and the only man that had killed was by his own musket when it misfired. Lincoln's entire honor guard that escorted his body on its way to Sprigfield got them and hundreds revoked in what was called as the Great Medal Purge of 1917 because they weren't earned for combat. Indeed Dougals MacArthur's came after the fall of Phillpines/Corregidor in what many believed was to buck up the public in the dark months in 1942 after Pearl Harbor though he was nominated during WW1 likely because his father was a recipient before him. Indeed nepotism in the Officer Corps was rife after the Civil War and about the only way not to become one was not to follow a father into the military especially had they been a general or a noted field officer. Many Civil War descendents mistake the GAR Medal for the Medal of Honor since it's quite similar in design, the US maintains a list of those who were awarded the actual medal but those that were revoked were never asked to surrender them and a handful were restored including the only Woman given one during the Civil War.

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I think you mean 1863, not 1963, lol, yes there were a lot of abuses of the medal during the Civil War.

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Mr. Mattingly you seem very knowledgeable on the matter. I thank you for the quite fitting follow up to the HG's presentation. Your message was delivered as one with an educators background. I've always liked history, geography and science in general, but it still needs to be delivered in a way that keeps one interested.

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Many were given to union soldiers who turned in any type of Confederate flag, banner, ect., many times for just finding one some where. You could literally get one for turning in a banner that had been discarded or picking one up from the battlefield, days after, never having been in the battle.

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I truly appreciate the way you are fair to history. No political agenda. No left or right. Just the facts. This is the best way to report history, as it gives those hearing it an honest chance to come to their own conclusions by seeing the events through the eyes of both sides in a conflict. The tendency today is to judge our ancestors harshly for deeds in another time and situation, ones we never faced ourselves. Wars are often tit for tat affairs with both sides triggering unforeseen consequences by their actions. We can learn from that - taking great care to avoid the mistakes of those who came before us.

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Well done ! Your passion for history really stands out when you use long-lost details to clarify the truth ! Amazing stuff. I work with technologies and the solution to problems are similarly cobbled together by files that contain specific code .. solutions are basically the historical truth that comes out in your documentation.

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Love your channel, my wife listens, enjoys, but wishes you would slow down a bit in your narration!

[@danmccarthy2213]

My tank commander was an Apache, A co. 4th tanks, USMC, amazing story you just told! Next you should talk about Col Kearny, and tell us why Kearny Mesa was named after him in SD, CA. Nobody who lives here seems to know...

[@dannyhanny1191]

This episode was rich with history (and great pictures). Thank you! I'm looking into the Battle of Valverde right now. The western battles of the Civil War are interesting, perhaps - in part - due to them being depicted so much in spaghetti westerns.

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I enjoyed this moment in history very much. I also have a suggestion for a future topic. My father worked for a lady pilot who's famous in the WASP from world War II. Her name was Sammy Chapin. Her father was a famous person in the Hudson Motor Car Company.

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Could we get a series of videos about soldiers who have been awarded their nation's top decoration for Valor? The Medal of Honor and Victoria Cross alone could provide hours of epic stories. Just a thought, no matter the topic I always enjoy watching your channel.

[@QuantumRift]

Great info! I lived in Sierra Vista, AZ (and worked on Ft. Huachuca) for almost 25 years and am familiar with this and other pieces of history from that area.

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[@01Z06guy]

The US Army built Ft Bowie to protect the spring mentioned in the story, now called Apache Springs. You can visit Ft Bowie, Apache Springs, and the site of the Pony Express station where, "cut the tent" occurred. Its a beautiful place in aptly named Cochise County, Arizona.

[@MrRandyh59]

When I went in to the army, I wanted to win this award. Now that I'm retired, I'm glad I did not.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Randy Harrell thank you for your service.

[@mikearmstrong7830]

It's not a contest. You don't win one.

[@MrRandyh59]

That is what I meant. When I went in, I thought deferent.

[@76rjackson]

Randy Harrell thanks for the wisdom.

[@fredkruse9444]

Yeah, many of them have been awarded posthumously.

[@ThePerfectRed]

Great research work of historic Images! It must have been a terrible grind to find all these photographs that match the story!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Funny Farmer actually, many of the photos are from later in the Apache wars. Collecting media in the public domain is always an adventure.

[@Monkeymoon940]

Another excellent well told story!!😊

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Great storytelling excellent history lesson

[@ricktimmons458]

at 65 how am i just learning about the medal of HONOR? I have read many of the awards and impressed at their bravery against impossible odds! Our city has a park with MOH displays totally impressed with your additional information.

[@garryrainey6300]

This man is incredible!

[@benpeters5851]

Thanks man I live in Tucson Arizona and I have camped out as a boy at Cochise stronghold. I knew about the boy and the fighting but I never knew about the medal of Honor and I didn't know that the boy had lived had always been told the boy that was killed. So I can thank you for that information I learned a little bit more about my home

[@N-Scale]

Thanks for this one as we live in Las Cruces New Mexico and my father and I have seen most old fort locations and battle of Val Verde area as well as San Marciel and Fort Craig. Mike

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

There are some ruins still at Fort Buchanan.

[@N-Scale]

There are still walls at Vale Verde as well but it is now on Ted Turners Ranch.

[@pmvaldez1]

I grew up in Las Cruces. OHS class of 1994!

[@N-Scale]

Onate I love this town. Thanks , Mike

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@@N-Scale santa fe all the way said Chico. From hobo Bob

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Thanks for the History lesson..much respect 👍

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Keep them coming!

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Fascinating, thank you.

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This was a great one!

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I love your videos I especially love your style the way you explain history is great don’t change the bowtie it’s very refreshing may you have lots and lots of success in your videos and I will keep watching as well as many other people

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great video~! thanks for the new content.

[@mro-aviation]

It's a well deserved medal of honor, as far as early medals of honor awarded, mostly US Navy MOH given for jumping into the water and rescue a fellow servicemen from drowning.

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You must remember that knowing how to swim was not something required or even encouraged in the 19th century Navys.

[@charlie1571]

I too am a history buff and I enjoy your videos greatly. I just wish you could slow down a bit. For me it is a bit hard to follow so I have to rewind a little here and there. Anyway keep up the excellent work.

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Do a video regarding 74of infantery of Puerto Rico in the Korean War. It is a story who deserves to be remembered.

[@patrickmbahi5177]

I think the Indian with the circles on his vest in one of the pictures around the 2 minute mark was Geronimo didn't know if you knew that! Cool video!

[@terrywestbrook-lienert2296]

I really enjoy your channel. I've subscribed. Please slow down the pace of your patter. You have such great material and I'm afraid the über-fast delivery would render your videos incomprehensible. Otherwise, keep up the excellent work!

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Amazing content, thanks!

[@Paladin1873]

Excellent review. Now for the nitpicking :) Truman may have said "won" but military medals are not won, for it is not a competition wherein only a few are allowed to be recognized. The CMH, like ever other medal, is earned. On a separate note, I remember reading about the Cochise affair as a boy. I realize that western photos from this time period are either scarce or nonexistent, but the images you used appear to show post-civil war soldiers, based upon the weapons and uniforms. I believe the Army of 1861 was equipped with the 1858 Hardee hats (one side of the brim pinned up), forage caps, and kepis. I don't think any flat brimmed slouch hats were in use at the time, though uniform variations during the conflict were so common that the term "uniform" hardly seemed to apply. Nevertheless, the photos certainly provide a feel for the time period.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

I do apologize, as some do take exception to the term "won" the medal. It is, though, a commonly used phrase, and certainly I did not intend to suggest the medal was not earned. I think that I used the more accepted "was awarded" in the rest of the video. And again, you are correct that there are virtually no extant photographs from the period, and no known photograph or portrait of Cochise. The photos are not even all from the Apache wars, as a few of the army photos are just from the frontier (one is from Fort Laramie, and includes Caspar Collins, for whom Casper Wyoming is named.) The media used for the channel is all in the Public Domain, and should be seen as illustrative rather than an exact record, as many historical events did not conveniently include a photographer.

[@Paladin1873]

You do a great job. If my minor criticisms are all you have to worry about, then your grasp of history is heads and shoulders above most contemporary "scholars".

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Colonel K thank you!

[@tvideo1189]

As for "nitpicking", you refer to the "CMH". Meaning, I guess, the "Congressional Medal Of Honor". There is no such thing as the "Congressional Medal Of Honor". The nations highest award for valor in combat is simply the "Medal Of Honor", no "Congressional" in the title at all. CWO4, USN(Ret)

[@Paladin1873]

@@tvideo1189 You are correct. It is often referred to as the Congressional Medal of Honor because Congress established it, but they have no role in awarding it.

[@johnphelan7403]

Mickey Free - the adopted son of Ward who was captured by the Pinal Apaches - was himself an interesting character who worked as a scout & bounty hunter.

[@joshmccoy1522]

We could see a whole episode on this channel about Mickey Free. Quite a character.

[@johnny6148]

we have a civil war medal of honor in our family at Petersberg,VA April 1865

[@trooperdgb9722]

When visiting Fort Huachuca in southern AZ I saw an interesting display at the museum there about the Indian Scouts. It fascinated me to see that the last Indian Scout did not retire until 1947!

[@danielhammond3012]

Hear, hear. I have found my daily history fix since the History Channel is anything but nowadays. Thanks!

[@djamesthree]

I have recently discovered your channel and have really been enjoying your take on these events in history. If I may make a suggestion, the quality of your audio could stand improvement, it seems a bit tinny. Perhaps a better mic? Possibly some sound absorbing material in your studio. Thank you and keep up the great work.

[@Psalms144_1_2]

Nice, came across your channel by accident, so I subscribed, I live in the southern region of Arizona, just south of Tucson, many people compare the US border patrol to the one and only Geronimo, the BEST Border Patrol in US history.

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Great lesson thank you 🙏

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This channel feels like home.

[@rogerhwerner6997]

This might be of interest. The investigation of the ruins of John Ward's ranch were the subject of one of the earliest historical archaeological investigations in the American Southwest. ' Johnny Ward's Ranch: A Study i Historic Archaeology,' by Bernard L. Fontana, J. Cameron Greenleaf, Charles W. Ferguson, Robert A. Wright, and Doris Frederick, Kiva 28(1-2):1-115 (Oct., - Dec., 1962). The work was conducted in 1959-1960 by the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society. This article was my first exposure to historical archaeology in 1976, which some 20 years later become one of my areas of specialty. I didn't know about the ranch's association with the first Medal of Honor. Subsequently, in the same KIVA volume, by the same authors, this article appeared. 'The Birth and Death of Johnny Ward's Ranch 1859 to 1903.' The second article, more germane to the video, weaves the story of the ranch using recovered archaeological materials and recorded history. These two articles, perhaps more than any others, presented professional archaeologists not only with a method for study historical sites and integrating it with recorded history, but more importantly it presented a case example of why the study of small historucal sites is important for understanding human adaptive behavior. The method used at Johnny Ward's is one that I enployed over a two decades investigating isolated homesteads, mining sites, ghost towns, and various settlements in California, Nevada, Oregon, annd Washington. They are well worth reading. Volume 28, 1962 - Issue 1-2: Johnny Ward's Ranch

[@thebonesaw..4634]

Another excellent presentation of an event that I knew nothing about until now. If I could make a recommendation, I think a presentation of demoted deserter (and Medal of Honor recipient) Jack Lucas would make an excellent show. It is my absolute favorite MOH story... I can never make it to the end without crying. Mike Rowe's podcast, _"The Way I Heard It"_ did it justice but I bet you could do just as well. Even if you decide not to do it, I think you would enjoy that episode... here's the link (it's only about 7 minutes long -- skip to the 50 second mark to bypass the commercial): www.acast.com/thewayihearditwithmikerowe/episode-30-the-demoted-deserter

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Jack Lucas had an amazing story. What a hero. I don't think that I could do better than his own words. video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=jack+lucas+medal+of+honor#id=1&vid=1beba7381ae304d0b63bf4410f5557b4&action=click

[@theoldhunter6072]

Great listening! Kinda reminds me of Paul Harvey

[@AlvaradoPinup]

You might consider doing longer videos on events you are familiar with or favorites of yours as it's been said before the History channel kinda sucks. Love your channel and thank you for the excellent content.

[@tsardeans1124]

Thoroughly intriguing as always! The banana wars would be a great topic for you to cover, you could also comment on inter war MoH and Smedley Butler?

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Tsar Deans I have a video mentioning the Banana wars and Smedley Butler, but it is one of the videos exclusive to Patreon.

[@dtrooperVideo]

The History Guy should be on the History Channel!

[@Largo64]

Then who would tell you about ancient aliens? ;^)

[@pegrathwol]

Great story! And a solid historical analysis. Where do you find primary sources for the history of the old West? US Army archives?

[@charlieharper4975]

The Hopi and Navaho also objected to Apache 'raiding'. If you are really interested in Indian vs American history you should read : "Indian Depredations in Texas" by Wilbarger.

[@1stPCFerret]

I vaguely remember a story about a small group of Apaches that occupied a mountain and managed to hold off a much larger US Army force for quite some time, by convincing the Army officers that they were a much larger force than they really were. Have you done a video on that by any chance.

[@petehatzakos]

Fascinating look back at history. I wonder if possibly in the comments section you can share url's of documents you might have found online that helped you do the research, or included PDF scan's out of books on a google drive, or just share a bibliography of info you used for your story.... for those of us who'd like to learn more... Thanks!