They Fought the War Together: Southeastern Ohio`s
... home and family were reciprocally related to the soldiers. In other words, while Mitchell focused primarily on the relationship between the family and the soldier, this study also examines the relationship with the soldier back to the home front. Also, this study diverges from Mitchell’s foundation ...
... home and family were reciprocally related to the soldiers. In other words, while Mitchell focused primarily on the relationship between the family and the soldier, this study also examines the relationship with the soldier back to the home front. Also, this study diverges from Mitchell’s foundation ...
Mercer Museum and Spruance Library of the Bucks
... This collection contains a small pocket diary generated by a local farmer and businessmen named John Robbins during 1865. The diary is mainly comprised of brief stoic entries on weather conditions, travels, business transaction and cash accounts. There are several entries that follow significant war ...
... This collection contains a small pocket diary generated by a local farmer and businessmen named John Robbins during 1865. The diary is mainly comprised of brief stoic entries on weather conditions, travels, business transaction and cash accounts. There are several entries that follow significant war ...
Boxing in the Union Blue: A Social History of American Boxing in the
... country, performing in sparring exhibitions at jam-packed halls and saloons throughout ...
... country, performing in sparring exhibitions at jam-packed halls and saloons throughout ...
Sarah Emma Edmonds (Seelye):
... Remembering the Battle of Malvern Hill, pages 228-229: “All the battles I had seen before, and those which I have seen since, were nothing to be compared to it. The elevated position which the army occupied, the concentration of such an immense force in so small compass, such a quantity of artillery ...
... Remembering the Battle of Malvern Hill, pages 228-229: “All the battles I had seen before, and those which I have seen since, were nothing to be compared to it. The elevated position which the army occupied, the concentration of such an immense force in so small compass, such a quantity of artillery ...
the rhetoric of destruction: racial identity and
... the combatants’ recognition of their basic humanity. Quite often, soldiers did not offer that recognition. The process of dehumanization, and the indiscriminate killing that it encouraged, is a significant part of this study. 1 ...
... the combatants’ recognition of their basic humanity. Quite often, soldiers did not offer that recognition. The process of dehumanization, and the indiscriminate killing that it encouraged, is a significant part of this study. 1 ...
The Ingenuity, Proficiency, and Versatility of Union Citizen Soldiers
... particular, I want to thank the people at the Flowerdew Hundred Plantation for giving my daughter Priscilla and me a personal tour of the spot where Grant’s army crossed the James River in June 1864. We had quite an adventure finding Flowerdew headquarters and our discovery of the place is now part ...
... particular, I want to thank the people at the Flowerdew Hundred Plantation for giving my daughter Priscilla and me a personal tour of the spot where Grant’s army crossed the James River in June 1864. We had quite an adventure finding Flowerdew headquarters and our discovery of the place is now part ...
Rules of Play
... game turn, so play proceeds directly to rule 3.2 (players deal strategy cards). The Game Turn Record Track indicates that only four cards are dealt to each player. During 3.31, the Confederate player declares that he is not playing a Campaign card at this time, so the Union is the first player. Unio ...
... game turn, so play proceeds directly to rule 3.2 (players deal strategy cards). The Game Turn Record Track indicates that only four cards are dealt to each player. During 3.31, the Confederate player declares that he is not playing a Campaign card at this time, so the Union is the first player. Unio ...
Untitled - TCU Digital Repository
... surrender of Fort Sumter on April 14, 1861, the nation was galvanized for war in a way it had never been before. The next day President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to put down the insurrection, and the states responded rapidly. Massachusetts governor John Andrew even wrote to ...
... surrender of Fort Sumter on April 14, 1861, the nation was galvanized for war in a way it had never been before. The next day President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to put down the insurrection, and the states responded rapidly. Massachusetts governor John Andrew even wrote to ...
Copyright Andrew Scott Bledsoe May 2012
... resolute yourselves and exhort them to do their duty, be assured they will follow you, and endeavour to imitate your example. It seems also reasonable that you should excel them in some degree, for you are their generals, their leaders, and their captains; and as in time of peace you have the advant ...
... resolute yourselves and exhort them to do their duty, be assured they will follow you, and endeavour to imitate your example. It seems also reasonable that you should excel them in some degree, for you are their generals, their leaders, and their captains; and as in time of peace you have the advant ...
Civil War Practice Test
... b. killed or sold into slavery if captured by the Confederacy. c. not experienced at war and did not know what to expect. d. only given bayonets with which to fight. Which of the following was an African American unit in the Civil War that played a key role in the attack on South Carolina’s Fort Wag ...
... b. killed or sold into slavery if captured by the Confederacy. c. not experienced at war and did not know what to expect. d. only given bayonets with which to fight. Which of the following was an African American unit in the Civil War that played a key role in the attack on South Carolina’s Fort Wag ...
A Unique Hell in Southwestern Virginia: Confederate Guerrillas and
... the goal of tearing-up the V&T’s tracks, burning its depots and bridges, and severing this productive region from the rest of the Confederacy. Unfortunately for Union soldiers, their invasions caused Confederate civilians to take up arms in defense of their homes in southwestern Virginia, creating a ...
... the goal of tearing-up the V&T’s tracks, burning its depots and bridges, and severing this productive region from the rest of the Confederacy. Unfortunately for Union soldiers, their invasions caused Confederate civilians to take up arms in defense of their homes in southwestern Virginia, creating a ...
The Real War Never Got in the Books: How Veterans
... The politicians during reconstruction and into the early twentieth century tried to produce a sense of national unity. Men like Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson insisted revenge not play a role in the political landscape and instead turned the nation’s focus to how the states would cons ...
... The politicians during reconstruction and into the early twentieth century tried to produce a sense of national unity. Men like Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson insisted revenge not play a role in the political landscape and instead turned the nation’s focus to how the states would cons ...
A Matter of "Vicious Habits": Civil War Families Under the Strain of War
... Why Rebecca married George at only fifteen is not easy to discern, but the absence of her mother may well have been a factor. George’s sister intimated to a pension examiner that Rebecca had no mother, and no one to take of her outside of her husband’s family. Her father was by the 1870 census rema ...
... Why Rebecca married George at only fifteen is not easy to discern, but the absence of her mother may well have been a factor. George’s sister intimated to a pension examiner that Rebecca had no mother, and no one to take of her outside of her husband’s family. Her father was by the 1870 census rema ...
Chapter 21—The Furnace of Civil War, 1861
... c. thousands of slaves rose in armed rebellion behind Southern lines. d. about one out of every four Union troops was black. e. captured black soldiers were treated well by Confederates. ANS: A ...
... c. thousands of slaves rose in armed rebellion behind Southern lines. d. about one out of every four Union troops was black. e. captured black soldiers were treated well by Confederates. ANS: A ...
A MOST UNPLEASANT PART OF YOUR DUTIES: MILITARY
... were to be respected “as much as the exigencies of war will admit.”5 Martial law applied to all persons in an occupied area, whether or not they were subjects of the enemy and even if they were consuls. Recognizing the unique character of the conflict, Lieber included a section on rebellions and civ ...
... were to be respected “as much as the exigencies of war will admit.”5 Martial law applied to all persons in an occupied area, whether or not they were subjects of the enemy and even if they were consuls. Recognizing the unique character of the conflict, Lieber included a section on rebellions and civ ...
PDF - UNT Digital Library
... In order to construct the history of the Fourteenth Infantry, this thesis uses the traditional narrative of the unit's experiences combined with quantitative methods to determine the type of man who fought in this unit. This places the Fourteenth's story among the new military histories of recent ye ...
... In order to construct the history of the Fourteenth Infantry, this thesis uses the traditional narrative of the unit's experiences combined with quantitative methods to determine the type of man who fought in this unit. This places the Fourteenth's story among the new military histories of recent ye ...
Untitled - TCU Digital Repository
... territory along the northern and southern reaches of the river, and on May 18, 1862, Flag Officer David G. Farragut’s West Gulf Blockading Squadron appeared below Vicksburg. The military governor of Vicksburg, Lieutenant Colonel James L. Autrey, rejected Farragut’s surrender ultimatum by declaring, ...
... territory along the northern and southern reaches of the river, and on May 18, 1862, Flag Officer David G. Farragut’s West Gulf Blockading Squadron appeared below Vicksburg. The military governor of Vicksburg, Lieutenant Colonel James L. Autrey, rejected Farragut’s surrender ultimatum by declaring, ...
reminiscences of the civil war
... general who, when he was in command, or when he led a charge, had never been defeated or repulsed, and that general was John B. Gordon. At Appomattox, just before the surrender, when Lee's army had "been fought to a frazzle" and was surrounded by the enemy, General Gordon, under the most discouragin ...
... general who, when he was in command, or when he led a charge, had never been defeated or repulsed, and that general was John B. Gordon. At Appomattox, just before the surrender, when Lee's army had "been fought to a frazzle" and was surrounded by the enemy, General Gordon, under the most discouragin ...
ECWC TOPIC Barton Clara Essay
... as an experiment. The success of this project in its first year led local leaders to appoint a principal for the school—a man they brought in from out of town. Barton was so distressed at the fact that she had been overlooked for this position, and on account of her sex, that she became physically i ...
... as an experiment. The success of this project in its first year led local leaders to appoint a principal for the school—a man they brought in from out of town. Barton was so distressed at the fact that she had been overlooked for this position, and on account of her sex, that she became physically i ...
DURING THE GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN
... here, but you know who you are, and I thank you all. That being said, I do want to extend a special thank you to my life-long friends Dave and Dan for the countless hours of laughter and entertainment they provided me with when I felt like I was losing my way as I worked to complete my very own “Que ...
... here, but you know who you are, and I thank you all. That being said, I do want to extend a special thank you to my life-long friends Dave and Dan for the countless hours of laughter and entertainment they provided me with when I felt like I was losing my way as I worked to complete my very own “Que ...
Chapter 11 PP
... the war occurred three months after Fort Sumter fell. The war lasted four years and eventually stretched across the continent. ...
... the war occurred three months after Fort Sumter fell. The war lasted four years and eventually stretched across the continent. ...
AtkinsThesis
... of its age, Ella Lonn’s Desertion during the Civil War has remained the starting point for all desertion studies. Lonn looked at both Union and Confederate desertion and sought to dispel the stigma of cowardice often associated with it. To achieve this, she studied chiefly the causes of desertion, y ...
... of its age, Ella Lonn’s Desertion during the Civil War has remained the starting point for all desertion studies. Lonn looked at both Union and Confederate desertion and sought to dispel the stigma of cowardice often associated with it. To achieve this, she studied chiefly the causes of desertion, y ...
READ-ALOUD PLAYS ABOUT
... VARINA DAVIS (sighing): You are quite right about Southern and Northern temperaments. Heading the Confederate armies as general would have suited my husband so much better than being president of the Confederacy. People are so hard to please. You should have seen his face when he received the telegr ...
... VARINA DAVIS (sighing): You are quite right about Southern and Northern temperaments. Heading the Confederate armies as general would have suited my husband so much better than being president of the Confederacy. People are so hard to please. You should have seen his face when he received the telegr ...
The American Rifled Musket
... crucial role in mid-19th-century western warfare. There were numerous models in circulation, but it was the 1861 Springfield rifled musket that proved to be the most influential. Over the course of the Civil War, over 30 companies produced about 1.5 million pieces. However, statistics only provide t ...
... crucial role in mid-19th-century western warfare. There were numerous models in circulation, but it was the 1861 Springfield rifled musket that proved to be the most influential. Over the course of the Civil War, over 30 companies produced about 1.5 million pieces. However, statistics only provide t ...
Union Army
The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865. It consisted of the small United States Army, known as the regular army, which was augmented by massive numbers of units supplied by northern U.S. states, consisting of volunteers as well as conscripts. The Union Army fought and eventually defeated the Confederate States Army during the war. About 360,000 Union soldiers died from all causes and some 280,000 were wounded.