Fort Pulaski
... Considered the turning point of the Civil War, this three day battle, culminating in the disastrous Pickett’s Charge, was a major defeat for the South. Confederate General Robert E. Lee, invading the North for a second time, had hoped that a victory would persuade Northern politicians to seek a peac ...
... Considered the turning point of the Civil War, this three day battle, culminating in the disastrous Pickett’s Charge, was a major defeat for the South. Confederate General Robert E. Lee, invading the North for a second time, had hoped that a victory would persuade Northern politicians to seek a peac ...
THE ORIGINS OF THE MISSISSIPPI MARINE BRIGADE: THE FIRST
... down from New York during a severe storm. The first clash of ironclad ships started at 9:00 a.m. and heralded a new era in naval combat.11 This battle, though it ended in a draw, provided a glimpse into the future of naval warfare. With the advent of this formidable Confederate threat against Union ...
... down from New York during a severe storm. The first clash of ironclad ships started at 9:00 a.m. and heralded a new era in naval combat.11 This battle, though it ended in a draw, provided a glimpse into the future of naval warfare. With the advent of this formidable Confederate threat against Union ...
Sabine Pass in the Civil War
... abandoned the river forts, transferring all of their weapons and supplies to Fort Griffin. 20 Early in 1863, Magruder had begun the gradual transfer of Griffin's BattaHon to Sabine Pass, which action was completed in June. This baUaHon consisted primarily of West Texas frontiersmen, who, by late sum ...
... abandoned the river forts, transferring all of their weapons and supplies to Fort Griffin. 20 Early in 1863, Magruder had begun the gradual transfer of Griffin's BattaHon to Sabine Pass, which action was completed in June. This baUaHon consisted primarily of West Texas frontiersmen, who, by late sum ...
Louisiana`s Civil War Era: Crisis and Conflict
... Was secession a right or was it treason? Southerners insisted that each state had the constitutional right to withdraw from the Union. In the North, some said “Let them go.” But others insisted the Union formed by the U.S. Constitution could not be dissolved; secession would be treason. When he was ...
... Was secession a right or was it treason? Southerners insisted that each state had the constitutional right to withdraw from the Union. In the North, some said “Let them go.” But others insisted the Union formed by the U.S. Constitution could not be dissolved; secession would be treason. When he was ...
the politics of command in the fort
... This approach is exploited because it has yielded much in the understanding of war as politics. It has also resulted in an almost cosmic shift in the American consciousness towards war. To modern Americans, war is no longer about glory and honor, or perhaps even victory, and it has come to be viewe ...
... This approach is exploited because it has yielded much in the understanding of war as politics. It has also resulted in an almost cosmic shift in the American consciousness towards war. To modern Americans, war is no longer about glory and honor, or perhaps even victory, and it has come to be viewe ...
Camp 1220 May 2014
... Yankee Myths! This series is dedicated to questions and statements that you might hear while doing a program for the public or talking to the media. Of course there can be more in-depth and complete answers, but you may not have time for that. So along with the statements, below are some suggested a ...
... Yankee Myths! This series is dedicated to questions and statements that you might hear while doing a program for the public or talking to the media. Of course there can be more in-depth and complete answers, but you may not have time for that. So along with the statements, below are some suggested a ...
22676-doc - Project Gutenberg
... Cumberland Rivers, respectively, just over the Tennessee border. If these forts could be taken the Confederates must give up Kentucky. ...
... Cumberland Rivers, respectively, just over the Tennessee border. If these forts could be taken the Confederates must give up Kentucky. ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of History of the United States
... Cumberland Rivers, respectively, just over the Tennessee border. If these forts could be taken the Confederates must give up Kentucky. ...
... Cumberland Rivers, respectively, just over the Tennessee border. If these forts could be taken the Confederates must give up Kentucky. ...
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... riverboats, and local militia and had retaken Galveston soon began reporting that Union General Nathaniel Banks on New Year’s Day, 1863. In the process, the Confederates was in New Orleans, outfitting a force of 20,000 men to captured one Union warship intact and caused another to land on the island ...
... riverboats, and local militia and had retaken Galveston soon began reporting that Union General Nathaniel Banks on New Year’s Day, 1863. In the process, the Confederates was in New Orleans, outfitting a force of 20,000 men to captured one Union warship intact and caused another to land on the island ...
CASE REPORT Bloodstains of Gettysburg
... largest artillery barrages ever fired. At approximately 1:00 P.M. Confederate artillery began firing at the center of the Union line in an attempt to soften their defense prior to a frontal assault. The barrage was then followed by what is commonly known as Pickett’s Charge. Approximately twelve tho ...
... largest artillery barrages ever fired. At approximately 1:00 P.M. Confederate artillery began firing at the center of the Union line in an attempt to soften their defense prior to a frontal assault. The barrage was then followed by what is commonly known as Pickett’s Charge. Approximately twelve tho ...
Lincoln and the Outbreak of War, 1861
... (CSA), and the leaders of the secession movement now insisted that the CSA was now a fully independent, autonomous nation, where United States law and authority could have no force at all! From December 1860 to the day of Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural, March 4, 1861, the new Confederacy, in an effort ...
... (CSA), and the leaders of the secession movement now insisted that the CSA was now a fully independent, autonomous nation, where United States law and authority could have no force at all! From December 1860 to the day of Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural, March 4, 1861, the new Confederacy, in an effort ...
Chris E. Fonvielle Jr.
... Confederacy Museum at Carolina Beach, North Carolina, 1979-1983. I subsequently devoted some of my graduate work at East Carolina University and the University of South Carolina to the Fort Anderson story, which historians had neglected thus far. Those efforts led to “Outflanked,” a chapter on the 1 ...
... Confederacy Museum at Carolina Beach, North Carolina, 1979-1983. I subsequently devoted some of my graduate work at East Carolina University and the University of South Carolina to the Fort Anderson story, which historians had neglected thus far. Those efforts led to “Outflanked,” a chapter on the 1 ...
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... Early when the Confederate force probed the defenses of Washington, D.C.. Since Lincoln was watching the fight from the ramparts of Fort Stevens, this was only time in American history when two former opponents in a presidential election faced one another across battle lines. Following his service w ...
... Early when the Confederate force probed the defenses of Washington, D.C.. Since Lincoln was watching the fight from the ramparts of Fort Stevens, this was only time in American history when two former opponents in a presidential election faced one another across battle lines. Following his service w ...
1 From Civil War Fort to State Park: A History of Fort Pillow By Colin
... Mississippi River, effectively ending any Confederate hope of supplying their troops from the water.19 The dual raids on Island No. 10 and New Orleans during April of 1862 revealed President Abraham Lincoln’s policy of attacking various Confederate outposts along the Mississippi River simultaneousl ...
... Mississippi River, effectively ending any Confederate hope of supplying their troops from the water.19 The dual raids on Island No. 10 and New Orleans during April of 1862 revealed President Abraham Lincoln’s policy of attacking various Confederate outposts along the Mississippi River simultaneousl ...
- Explore Georgia
... Union lines. On April 7, 1862, Ga., and its ranks grew to approximately 800 black Abraham Murchison, an escaped slave and preacher enlisted men commanded by Col. Lewis Johnson, from Savannah, helped recruit 150 former slaves for a who was white. black regiment at Hilton Head, S.C. The regiment was l ...
... Union lines. On April 7, 1862, Ga., and its ranks grew to approximately 800 black Abraham Murchison, an escaped slave and preacher enlisted men commanded by Col. Lewis Johnson, from Savannah, helped recruit 150 former slaves for a who was white. black regiment at Hilton Head, S.C. The regiment was l ...
Rivers and Rifles: The Role of Fort Heiman in the Western Theater of
... Though bothered by the Confederate cavalry screen led by Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grant and a significant portion of his force arrived on the 12th, as did the USS Carondelet, whose crew probed Fort Donelson’s defenses before the impending naval battle (Cooling 1987; Gott 2003:144). On February 13, sm ...
... Though bothered by the Confederate cavalry screen led by Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grant and a significant portion of his force arrived on the 12th, as did the USS Carondelet, whose crew probed Fort Donelson’s defenses before the impending naval battle (Cooling 1987; Gott 2003:144). On February 13, sm ...
The Battle of Baton Rouge
... of the C.S.S. Arkansas , an ironclad ram whose job it was to clear the Mississippi River of Union vessels. After several days of marching, the little army was in place just outside Baton Rouge, to the east at Ward’s Creek, waiting in the pre-dawn darkness of August 5th. The Arkansas sat just upriver ...
... of the C.S.S. Arkansas , an ironclad ram whose job it was to clear the Mississippi River of Union vessels. After several days of marching, the little army was in place just outside Baton Rouge, to the east at Ward’s Creek, waiting in the pre-dawn darkness of August 5th. The Arkansas sat just upriver ...
The CONfederate States!!
... 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 a result he was sterile. Maury had corresponded with the emperor before the Civil War, and when he heard that Maximilian wa ...
... 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 a result he was sterile. Maury had corresponded with the emperor before the Civil War, and when he heard that Maximilian wa ...
Plans and Early Battles
... The battle, known as the Battle of Bull Run in the North and the Battle of Manassas in the South, resulted in a Union defeat by Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. Lincoln appointed a new commander, George B. McClellan. ...
... The battle, known as the Battle of Bull Run in the North and the Battle of Manassas in the South, resulted in a Union defeat by Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. Lincoln appointed a new commander, George B. McClellan. ...
confederate heritage - Tennessee Division, Sons of Confederate
... Lincoln precipitated war by sending ships to reinforce Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Confederate forces at Tennessee Stands Firm with the South Charleston fired on the fort. Lincoln answered by Most Tennesseans initially showed little enthusiasm calling for 75,000 volunteers to put down the revolt, a ...
... Lincoln precipitated war by sending ships to reinforce Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Confederate forces at Tennessee Stands Firm with the South Charleston fired on the fort. Lincoln answered by Most Tennesseans initially showed little enthusiasm calling for 75,000 volunteers to put down the revolt, a ...
the museum of the confederacy
... 5. Find the bloodstained handkerchief. Name the Confederate general who was wounded by his own men during the battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863. ...
... 5. Find the bloodstained handkerchief. Name the Confederate general who was wounded by his own men during the battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863. ...
Fort Fisher 1865 - SlapDash Publishing
... merchant ships from England to Bermuda and Nassau, where they were transferred to smaller vessels for the final dash into the Confederacy. Blockade-runners could enter the Cape Fear harbor by one of two passageways—Old Inlet at the mouth of the river, and New Inlet, a shallow passageway five miles t ...
... merchant ships from England to Bermuda and Nassau, where they were transferred to smaller vessels for the final dash into the Confederacy. Blockade-runners could enter the Cape Fear harbor by one of two passageways—Old Inlet at the mouth of the river, and New Inlet, a shallow passageway five miles t ...
Play Civil War Jeopardy
... He said, “We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain” People ...
... He said, “We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain” People ...
Battle of the Ironclads - Essential Civil War Curriculum
... blow for our Navy are now for the first time presented.” The secretary concluded his letter by stating that “[a]ction—prompt and successful action—would be important for our cause.”3 Mallory’s instructions were not lost on Franklin Buchanan. He selected Newport News Point as his target, but his hope ...
... blow for our Navy are now for the first time presented.” The secretary concluded his letter by stating that “[a]ction—prompt and successful action—would be important for our cause.”3 Mallory’s instructions were not lost on Franklin Buchanan. He selected Newport News Point as his target, but his hope ...
Reconstruction_Quiz
... It was one of the last two federal forts in the southern states It was near the Confederate capital of Richmond It was the only southern army fort located in Union territory. ...
... It was one of the last two federal forts in the southern states It was near the Confederate capital of Richmond It was the only southern army fort located in Union territory. ...
Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip
The Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip (April 18–28, 1862) was the decisive battle for possession of New Orleans in the American Civil War. The two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River south of the city were attacked by a Union Navy fleet. As long as the forts could keep the Federal forces from moving on the city, it was safe, but if they were negated, there were no fall-back positions to impede the enemy advance.New Orleans, the largest city in the Confederacy, was already under threat of attack from the north when David Farragut moved his fleet into the river from the south. The Confederate Navy had already driven off the Union blockade fleet in the Battle of the Head of Passes the previous October. Although the menace from upriver was geographically more remote than that from the Gulf of Mexico, a series of losses in Kentucky and Tennessee had forced the War and Navy Departments in Richmond to strip the region of much of its defenses. Men and equipment had been withdrawn from the local defenses, so that by mid-April almost nothing remained to the south except the two forts and an assortment of gunboats of questionable worth. Without reducing the pressure from the north, (Union) President Abraham Lincoln set in motion a combined Army-Navy operation to attack from the south. The Union Army offered 18,000 soldiers, led by the political general Benjamin F. Butler. The Navy contributed a large fraction of its West Gulf Blockading Squadron, which was commanded by Flag Officer David G. Farragut. The squadron was augmented by a semi-autonomous flotilla of mortar schooners and their support vessels under Commander David Dixon Porter.The expedition assembled at Ship Island in the Gulf. Once they were ready, the naval contingent moved its ships into the river, an operation that was completed on April 14. They were then moved into position near the forts, and on April 18 the mortars opened the battle.The ensuing battle can be divided into two parts: a mostly ineffective bombardment of the Confederate-held forts by the raft-mounted mortars, and the successful passage of the forts by much of Farragut's fleet on the night of April 24. During the passage, one Federal warship was lost and three others turned back, while the Confederate gunboats were virtually obliterated. The subsequent capture of the city, achieved with no further significant opposition, was a serious, even fatal, blow from which the Confederacy never recovered. The forts remained after the fleet had passed, but the demoralized enlisted men in Fort Jackson mutinied and forced their surrender.