Trans-Mississippi Southerners in the Union Army, 1862-1865
... determined bravery for that Union which our Revolutionary sires established by their valor and sealed with their blood, …thereby testifying to our patriot brethren in arms from other states that we are not only willing but anxious to second their efforts in rescuing our state from the dominion of tr ...
... determined bravery for that Union which our Revolutionary sires established by their valor and sealed with their blood, …thereby testifying to our patriot brethren in arms from other states that we are not only willing but anxious to second their efforts in rescuing our state from the dominion of tr ...
1 From Civil War Fort to State Park: A History of Fort Pillow By Colin
... revealed President Abraham Lincoln’s policy of attacking various Confederate outposts along the Mississippi River simultaneously, stretching the Confederate river defenses out across hundreds of river miles, making it impossible to defend their largest outposts.20 By early May 1862, Union gunboats r ...
... revealed President Abraham Lincoln’s policy of attacking various Confederate outposts along the Mississippi River simultaneously, stretching the Confederate river defenses out across hundreds of river miles, making it impossible to defend their largest outposts.20 By early May 1862, Union gunboats r ...
Trans-Mississippi Southerners in the Union Army, 1862-1865
... determined bravery for that Union which our Revolutionary sires established by their valor and sealed with their blood, …thereby testifying to our patriot brethren in arms from other states that we are not only willing but anxious to second their efforts in rescuing our state from the dominion of tr ...
... determined bravery for that Union which our Revolutionary sires established by their valor and sealed with their blood, …thereby testifying to our patriot brethren in arms from other states that we are not only willing but anxious to second their efforts in rescuing our state from the dominion of tr ...
kentucky`s rebel press: the jackson purchase newspapers in 1861
... als seized Paducah. The Unionist state legislature charged only the Confederates with violating neutrality and ordered them to with· draw. But the Hickman Courier rushed to their defense. Editor Warren explained that "while the Federalists have invaded our soil in the county of Ballard twice, and ar ...
... als seized Paducah. The Unionist state legislature charged only the Confederates with violating neutrality and ordered them to with· draw. But the Hickman Courier rushed to their defense. Editor Warren explained that "while the Federalists have invaded our soil in the county of Ballard twice, and ar ...
the civil war comes to yazoo - 1862
... peppered the ships with small arms, other soldiers cut trees to fall across the stream ahead of and behind the vessels. With the fleet blocked in by trees, the crews unable to come into the open, and Confederate forces ready to drive in and take the ships, General Grant had to send a land force to r ...
... peppered the ships with small arms, other soldiers cut trees to fall across the stream ahead of and behind the vessels. With the fleet blocked in by trees, the crews unable to come into the open, and Confederate forces ready to drive in and take the ships, General Grant had to send a land force to r ...
Did you know - Page County, Virginia in the Civil War
... the 149th (Warren) Regiments. Commanded by Colonel Mann Spitler, the 97th was called into service by the Governor on July 13, 1861, to rendezvous at Strasburg, except for companies already ordered to Beverly. Available records give some indication that the organization may have been disbanded in Apr ...
... the 149th (Warren) Regiments. Commanded by Colonel Mann Spitler, the 97th was called into service by the Governor on July 13, 1861, to rendezvous at Strasburg, except for companies already ordered to Beverly. Available records give some indication that the organization may have been disbanded in Apr ...
The Battle of Bull Run Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre Script
... Hey, isn’t Manassas pretty close to DC? 13 Yup, it’s only 30 miles southwest of here. ...
... Hey, isn’t Manassas pretty close to DC? 13 Yup, it’s only 30 miles southwest of here. ...
Andersonville - Letter to Union Colonel William H. Noble
... received the Port Royal postmark. The earliest known cover with a Jacksonville Union manuscript postmark is April 10, 1864, and a makeshift typeset postmark first appeared 10 days later on April 20, 1864. It was not until mid-May 1864 that Jacksonville received a standard postmark from the USPOD wit ...
... received the Port Royal postmark. The earliest known cover with a Jacksonville Union manuscript postmark is April 10, 1864, and a makeshift typeset postmark first appeared 10 days later on April 20, 1864. It was not until mid-May 1864 that Jacksonville received a standard postmark from the USPOD wit ...
confederate historical association of belgium
... infantrymen from Roberts’ company. The following day, between three and four A.M., two cavalrymen sent back by Roberts informed Cremony that there was an abundance of water at Dragoon Springs. In obedience to Roberts’ order, Cremony set forward before daylight with his train. “A long and fatiguing m ...
... infantrymen from Roberts’ company. The following day, between three and four A.M., two cavalrymen sent back by Roberts informed Cremony that there was an abundance of water at Dragoon Springs. In obedience to Roberts’ order, Cremony set forward before daylight with his train. “A long and fatiguing m ...
About General Butler
... Petersburg, black troops were still not trusted by white troops. Lincoln was also not expected to win reelection in November 1864. Butler declined Lincoln’s invitation to be Vice President and planned to win a major battle with black troops at Richmond. Black troops successively captured New Market ...
... Petersburg, black troops were still not trusted by white troops. Lincoln was also not expected to win reelection in November 1864. Butler declined Lincoln’s invitation to be Vice President and planned to win a major battle with black troops at Richmond. Black troops successively captured New Market ...
The Isolation Factor - Marshall Digital Scholar
... secessionists in North Carolina had already tried that February and did not receive the desired result, so they were not about to make the same mistake again. Delegates were elected on May 13, 1861, with few choices on the ballot, and on May 20, the convention delegates met and unanimously voted for ...
... secessionists in North Carolina had already tried that February and did not receive the desired result, so they were not about to make the same mistake again. Delegates were elected on May 13, 1861, with few choices on the ballot, and on May 20, the convention delegates met and unanimously voted for ...
Ironclads and Gunboats - Villages Civil War Study Group
... Eads, who had made a fortune before the war raising sunken ships from the Mississippi, to build ironclads specially designed for rivers. These Eads ironclads were designed by Samuel M. Pook. They were paddle boats with most of their armor and heavy guns in the front, with thinner iron plating and sm ...
... Eads, who had made a fortune before the war raising sunken ships from the Mississippi, to build ironclads specially designed for rivers. These Eads ironclads were designed by Samuel M. Pook. They were paddle boats with most of their armor and heavy guns in the front, with thinner iron plating and sm ...
Men and Machines: The Psychological Impact of Gunboats on the
... control the river. The Department sent orders to Captain John Rodgers on May 16, 1861, sending him to General George McClellan’s Headquarters at Cincinnati “in regard to the expediency of establishing a Naval Armament on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, or either of them, with a view of blockading o ...
... control the river. The Department sent orders to Captain John Rodgers on May 16, 1861, sending him to General George McClellan’s Headquarters at Cincinnati “in regard to the expediency of establishing a Naval Armament on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, or either of them, with a view of blockading o ...
From Reform to Revolution: The Transformation of Confederate
... Fitzhugh’s rhetoric was convincing, and it was also supported at even the highest levels of the Confederate administration. The most prominent source of this perspective of the Confederacy as a conservative project comes from President Jefferson Davis’s first inaugural address, given on February 18t ...
... Fitzhugh’s rhetoric was convincing, and it was also supported at even the highest levels of the Confederate administration. The most prominent source of this perspective of the Confederacy as a conservative project comes from President Jefferson Davis’s first inaugural address, given on February 18t ...
- Explore Georgia
... Cumberland. Most recruiting took control, and enslaved Georgians place in summer 1864, when the began making their way to 44th USCI was stationed in Rome, Union lines. On April 7, 1862, Ga., and its ranks grew to approximately 800 black Abraham Murchison, an escaped slave and preacher enlisted men c ...
... Cumberland. Most recruiting took control, and enslaved Georgians place in summer 1864, when the began making their way to 44th USCI was stationed in Rome, Union lines. On April 7, 1862, Ga., and its ranks grew to approximately 800 black Abraham Murchison, an escaped slave and preacher enlisted men c ...
Civil War Comes to Pulaski County
... in that vile and uncompromising nest of secessionists, Waynesville; but Col. Woolf, who had preceded us for a few hours only, had most effectively squelched out secession there, and there remained little for us to do but make a sortie or two in the country, to drive the rebels still further from the ...
... in that vile and uncompromising nest of secessionists, Waynesville; but Col. Woolf, who had preceded us for a few hours only, had most effectively squelched out secession there, and there remained little for us to do but make a sortie or two in the country, to drive the rebels still further from the ...
WHO WAS THE CIVIL WAR`S PREMIER CAVALRY COMMANDER?
... Jackson to completely surprise the Union army. When Jackson was mortally wounded and A P Hill injured, Stuart took command of the 2nd Corps. With courage and brilliant leadership he continued to drive the Union troops and remained in command of the corps until Hooker retreated across the Rappahannoc ...
... Jackson to completely surprise the Union army. When Jackson was mortally wounded and A P Hill injured, Stuart took command of the 2nd Corps. With courage and brilliant leadership he continued to drive the Union troops and remained in command of the corps until Hooker retreated across the Rappahannoc ...
Antietam: A Failure To Achieve Victory
... were forced to hunt for their own meals. General Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Army ofNorthern Virginia, now had to strategically plan the next advance of his weathered army. To the east was Washington, the Union capital, but Lee knew his forces would not be able to lay siege to the Union fortific ...
... were forced to hunt for their own meals. General Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Army ofNorthern Virginia, now had to strategically plan the next advance of his weathered army. To the east was Washington, the Union capital, but Lee knew his forces would not be able to lay siege to the Union fortific ...
Union College Connections to the Civil War Era A Glossary of
... who served in the Union and Confederate militaries, the contributions and experiences of Union alumni, and others associated with the college, far exceed what these relatively small numbers would imply. The age of the College at the start of the war, its location in the state that sent more men to m ...
... who served in the Union and Confederate militaries, the contributions and experiences of Union alumni, and others associated with the college, far exceed what these relatively small numbers would imply. The age of the College at the start of the war, its location in the state that sent more men to m ...
Little Rock, AR 72221 • Email: g.hendershott
... Major William F. Haines’ Confederate Uniform with Important Accouterments and Documents Brigade Quartermaster at the Surrender of Vicksburg, 1st Missouri Infantry Negotiated the Army of Tennessee Surrender with General Sherman This fine example of a Confederate, late war officer’s coat was worn by M ...
... Major William F. Haines’ Confederate Uniform with Important Accouterments and Documents Brigade Quartermaster at the Surrender of Vicksburg, 1st Missouri Infantry Negotiated the Army of Tennessee Surrender with General Sherman This fine example of a Confederate, late war officer’s coat was worn by M ...
Ch 20 The North & The South
... – Issue of the divided Union came to a head over the matter of federal forts in the South: • As the seceding states left, they seized the United States’ arsenals, mints and other public property in their borders • Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor – Short on supply; caused Lincoln to adopt a middle- ...
... – Issue of the divided Union came to a head over the matter of federal forts in the South: • As the seceding states left, they seized the United States’ arsenals, mints and other public property in their borders • Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor – Short on supply; caused Lincoln to adopt a middle- ...
I.CH 20 PPn - NOHS Teachers
... – Issue of the divided Union came to a head over the matter of federal forts in the South: • As the seceding states left, they seized the United States’ arsenals, mints and other public property in their borders • Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor – Short on supply; caused Lincoln to adopt a middle- ...
... – Issue of the divided Union came to a head over the matter of federal forts in the South: • As the seceding states left, they seized the United States’ arsenals, mints and other public property in their borders • Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor – Short on supply; caused Lincoln to adopt a middle- ...
The CONfederate States!!
... Emperor Maximilian had a keen interest in the sea and was appointed to the rank of rear admiral in the Austrian navy by his brother. He liked to visit exotic faraway ports . . . without his wife of course....It was rumored that he contacted syphilis during a visit to a brothel in Brazil, and that as ...
... Emperor Maximilian had a keen interest in the sea and was appointed to the rank of rear admiral in the Austrian navy by his brother. He liked to visit exotic faraway ports . . . without his wife of course....It was rumored that he contacted syphilis during a visit to a brothel in Brazil, and that as ...
2011 Fall - Alexandria Historical Society
... At the very beginning of the Civil War in Virginia 150 years ago, the Union army invaded Alexandria. As we have just seen, on May 24, 1861, Colonel Elmer Ellsworth led the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, known as the Fire Zouaves, across the Potomac River and into Alexandria. A short time ...
... At the very beginning of the Civil War in Virginia 150 years ago, the Union army invaded Alexandria. As we have just seen, on May 24, 1861, Colonel Elmer Ellsworth led the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, known as the Fire Zouaves, across the Potomac River and into Alexandria. A short time ...
Battle of Big Bethel
The Battle of Big Bethel, also known as the Battle of Bethel Church or Great Bethel was one of the earliest land battles of the American Civil War (Civil War) after the surrender of Fort Sumter. The battle between Union Army and Confederate States Army forces on June 10, 1861 took place in Hampton and York County, Virginia, (near the present-day unincorporated community of Tabb). While small in comparison to the many larger, bloodier and more significant battles later in the war, the Battle of Big Bethel and all early Civil War military engagements attracted considerable notice, press coverage and exaggerated importance because of the newness of the war and the general feeling the war would be short.On April 15, 1861, the day after the small U. S. Army garrison at Fort Sumter formally surrendered to Confederate forces, President Abraham Lincoln called for troops to suppress the rebellion. Virginia refused to provide soldiers for this purpose and its State government leaders reconvened a convention in Richmond, Virginia, which voted to secede from the Union on April 17, 1861, subject to ratification by a popular vote on May 23, 1861. A small United States Regular Army garrison was able to hold the powerful and strategically located Fort Monroe on the southern end of the Virginia Peninsula and the Chesapeake Bay and the north side of Hampton Roads. The fort could be reinforced and resupplied by water without threat of attack and was approachable by land only over a narrow causeway and narrow isthmus of land. By April 20, 1861, the U.S. War Department was able to reinforce the fort with two trained and ready Massachusetts volunteer militia infantry regiments. On May 23, 1861, Major General of volunteers Benjamin F. Butler, a former Massachusetts politician and lawyer, took charge of the growing garrison. By May 29, 1861, he established a camp with cannon range of the fort at nearby Hampton, Virginia and a fortified camp at Newport News, Virginia about 8 miles (13 km) from the fort.On May 21, 1861, Virginia's chief military officer, Major General Robert E. Lee responded to the growing threat from Fort Monroe by putting Colonel (later Major General) John B. Magruder in charge of the Virginia (Confederate) forces in the southern Virginia Peninsula area. Magruder assumed command on May 24, 1861 and set up headquarters at Yorktown, Virginia. He began fortifying a line along the Warwick River. On June 6, 1861, Magruder sent a force to fortify a strong advanced position mostly on the north side of a branch of the Back River at Big Bethel Church, about 13 miles (21 km) south of Yorktown and 8 miles (13 km) from Hampton. A smaller outpost was established at Little Bethel Church, which was about the same 8 miles (13 km) distance from both Union camps.Butler and an aide, Major Theodore Winthrop, devised a plan for a coordinated dawn attack on June 10, 1861, after a night march by federal forces from their two main bases outside Fort Monroe, to drive the Confederates back from their threatening advanced positions at Little Bethel and Big Bethel. The inexperienced Union officers and forces could not execute the plan. In a precursor of the conflicting uniform mixup at the First Battle of Bull Run, one Union regiment mistook another Union regiment dressed in gray for Confederates in the dark and began firing on them. Not only did the attacked Union regiment suffer several killed and wounded, but the gunfire alerted the Confederates to the movement of the Union forces. Nonetheless, the Union field commander, Massachusetts militia brigadier general Ebenezer W. Peirce, pushed on. In an ill-coordinated attack over broken and swampy ground, the Union forces attacked well-fortified Confederate positions at Big Bethel which had well-placed artillery support. One Union regiment made a difficult flanking march only to find they were unsupported and cut off when they closed for an attack. Another regiment prematurely withdrew from the field through an error by its commander, leaving the remaining force on the field which had advanced to a vacated Confederate position quite vulnerable and the advance force also had to withdraw. After a few more Union attacks were thwarted, Peirce decided further attacks would have been futile so he ordered the Union forces to retire from the field and returned to their bases. The Union forces suffered 76 casualties, with 18 killed, including Major Winthrop and Lieutenant John T. Greble, the first regular army officer killed in the war. The Confederates suffered only 8 casualties, with only 1 killed. Although Magruder subsequently withdrew to Yorktown and his defensive line along the Warwick River, he had won a propaganda victory and the Union forces attempted no further significant advance on the Peninsula until the Peninsula Campaign of 1862.