War and Remembrance: Walter Place and Ulysses S. Grant
... became a perfect target for Confederate troops intent on stopping—or at least slowing down— the Union campaign against Vicksburg.3 Early on the morning of December 20, 1862, Confederate cavalry under the command of General Earl Van Dorn rode into Holly Springs, catching the Union garrison there by s ...
... became a perfect target for Confederate troops intent on stopping—or at least slowing down— the Union campaign against Vicksburg.3 Early on the morning of December 20, 1862, Confederate cavalry under the command of General Earl Van Dorn rode into Holly Springs, catching the Union garrison there by s ...
Civil War DBQ
... Delivered by President Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at the dedication of a memorial cemetery on November 19, 1863, it is now familiarly known as the "Gettysburg Address." Drawing inspiration from his favorite historical document, the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln equated the c ...
... Delivered by President Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at the dedication of a memorial cemetery on November 19, 1863, it is now familiarly known as the "Gettysburg Address." Drawing inspiration from his favorite historical document, the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln equated the c ...
A Matter of "Vicious Habits": Civil War Families Under the Strain of War
... representative story of families bending and faltering under the strains war.5 As hundreds of thousands of young men rushed to serve the Union cause during the country’s most desperate hour, many of them left behind wives and families without adequate resources ...
... representative story of families bending and faltering under the strains war.5 As hundreds of thousands of young men rushed to serve the Union cause during the country’s most desperate hour, many of them left behind wives and families without adequate resources ...
The South at War: Five Battles of Selma, Ramparts Magazine, June
... military means. The President of the friendly power has said that he and its legislature plan to intervene in the bloody contest to grant the indigenous people the right to vote. But the friendly power decreed similar rights a century ago. How then, can one expect ·deliverance now? What has the frie ...
... military means. The President of the friendly power has said that he and its legislature plan to intervene in the bloody contest to grant the indigenous people the right to vote. But the friendly power decreed similar rights a century ago. How then, can one expect ·deliverance now? What has the frie ...
Just Before The Battle, Mother
... The poem was a result of events at the beginning of the American Civil War. During the secession crisis, President Abraham Lincoln (referred to in the poem as "the despot" and "the tyrant") ordered federal troops to be brought to Washington, D.C. to protect the capital. Many of these troops were bro ...
... The poem was a result of events at the beginning of the American Civil War. During the secession crisis, President Abraham Lincoln (referred to in the poem as "the despot" and "the tyrant") ordered federal troops to be brought to Washington, D.C. to protect the capital. Many of these troops were bro ...
Mahan at West Point, “Gallic Bias,” and the “Old Army”: The
... The high percentage (90 percent and above) of West Point graduates in the top leadership positions holds true on almost every Civil War battlefield. The Battle of Gettysburg and the entire war, in the end, was a conflict at the highest command level between men who had received identical indoctrinat ...
... The high percentage (90 percent and above) of West Point graduates in the top leadership positions holds true on almost every Civil War battlefield. The Battle of Gettysburg and the entire war, in the end, was a conflict at the highest command level between men who had received identical indoctrinat ...
Judah Benjamin - Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation
... Davis decided in 1862 to let Roanoke Island fall into Union hands without mounting a defense rather than revealing the true weakness of Southern forces, Benjamin, as Davis’s loyal Secretary of War, took the blame and resigned. Anti-Semitism was an unpleasant fact – North and South – during the Civi ...
... Davis decided in 1862 to let Roanoke Island fall into Union hands without mounting a defense rather than revealing the true weakness of Southern forces, Benjamin, as Davis’s loyal Secretary of War, took the blame and resigned. Anti-Semitism was an unpleasant fact – North and South – during the Civi ...
Scalawags Among Us: Alamance County Among the
... pro-Union position. They provided the minutes of their March 30, 1861 meeting to the Hillsborough newspaper for publication. Firmly anti-secessionist, the minutes included the statement, “the President is acting in a constitutional manner for which there are no grounds of secession.” The paper publi ...
... pro-Union position. They provided the minutes of their March 30, 1861 meeting to the Hillsborough newspaper for publication. Firmly anti-secessionist, the minutes included the statement, “the President is acting in a constitutional manner for which there are no grounds of secession.” The paper publi ...
Untitled - TCU Digital Repository
... When word reached the North that rebels in Charleston had bombarded and forced the 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, ...
... When word reached the North that rebels in Charleston had bombarded and forced the 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, ...
Welcome to “CHARGE
... produced during 1849-50 in Pennsylvania. Two later models, the "New Model 1859" and the "New Model 1863" were the types used during the war. The Sharps Carbine was widely used, with 5,800 being purchased by the government in 1861, 17,134 in 1862, 22,205 in 1863, 25,039 in 1864, and 7,152 being deliv ...
... produced during 1849-50 in Pennsylvania. Two later models, the "New Model 1859" and the "New Model 1863" were the types used during the war. The Sharps Carbine was widely used, with 5,800 being purchased by the government in 1861, 17,134 in 1862, 22,205 in 1863, 25,039 in 1864, and 7,152 being deliv ...
South Danvers Observer Spring 2012
... times would have been hard pressed to disagree. After all, the war was just under 9 months old. While fervor for the Union cause burned especially bright in South Danvers, the heavy realization was settling into most people’s hearts that the war would not end as quickly as first hoped. If things wer ...
... times would have been hard pressed to disagree. After all, the war was just under 9 months old. While fervor for the Union cause burned especially bright in South Danvers, the heavy realization was settling into most people’s hearts that the war would not end as quickly as first hoped. If things wer ...
The Role of Cotton in the Civil War
... food supplies. About one fourth of Britain's food supplies came from United States, and American warships could destroy much of British commerce, while the Royal Navy was convoying ships full of cotton. Consequently, the strategy proved a failure for the Confederacy. King Cotton did not help the new ...
... food supplies. About one fourth of Britain's food supplies came from United States, and American warships could destroy much of British commerce, while the Royal Navy was convoying ships full of cotton. Consequently, the strategy proved a failure for the Confederacy. King Cotton did not help the new ...
civil war civil war
... The Florida Civil War Heritage Trail was produced by the Florida Association of Museums (FAM), the statewide not-for-profit professional organization for Florida’s museums and museum professionals. FAM provides continuing education and networking opportunities for museum professionals, improves th ...
... The Florida Civil War Heritage Trail was produced by the Florida Association of Museums (FAM), the statewide not-for-profit professional organization for Florida’s museums and museum professionals. FAM provides continuing education and networking opportunities for museum professionals, improves th ...
Hawai`i at Home During the American Civil War
... 148 the hawaiian journal of history of missionary Amos S. Cooke’s children failed to carry out assigned chores, he was kept home and not allowed to attend the “Wisely show as promised, but Amos and Clarence did.”18 For more serious news, there were no Hawai‘i reporters on the front lines or in W ...
... 148 the hawaiian journal of history of missionary Amos S. Cooke’s children failed to carry out assigned chores, he was kept home and not allowed to attend the “Wisely show as promised, but Amos and Clarence did.”18 For more serious news, there were no Hawai‘i reporters on the front lines or in W ...
Staff Ride Handbook for the Battle of Perryville, 8
... counteroffensive defeated Union hopes to end the war in 1862. However, by mid-October, hard on the heels of the broad Confederate advance the Union forces had regained the strategic and operational advantage, cited by McPherson as the second turning point of the war. Union victories at Antietam in t ...
... counteroffensive defeated Union hopes to end the war in 1862. However, by mid-October, hard on the heels of the broad Confederate advance the Union forces had regained the strategic and operational advantage, cited by McPherson as the second turning point of the war. Union victories at Antietam in t ...
Copyright Andrew Scott Bledsoe May 2012
... fairest of all opportunities; for all the soldiers fix their eyes on you: if they see you disheartened their courage will forsake them; but if you appear resolute yourselves and exhort them to do their duty, be assured they will follow you, and endeavour to imitate your example. It seems also reason ...
... fairest of all opportunities; for all the soldiers fix their eyes on you: if they see you disheartened their courage will forsake them; but if you appear resolute yourselves and exhort them to do their duty, be assured they will follow you, and endeavour to imitate your example. It seems also reason ...
Guide to the Henry L. Sholts (38th Iowa Regiment) Letters [1861
... accounts of troop movements and tactics, his views and opinions of various leaders and commanders including: Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and William T. Sherman. Sholts also makes mention of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The letters include lengthy descriptions of New ...
... accounts of troop movements and tactics, his views and opinions of various leaders and commanders including: Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and William T. Sherman. Sholts also makes mention of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The letters include lengthy descriptions of New ...
Combat, Supply, and the Influence of Logistics During the Civil War
... south of the Arkansas River. During 1864 the war remained stagnant. Union troops ...
... south of the Arkansas River. During 1864 the war remained stagnant. Union troops ...
LEQ: What United States general captured Atlanta
... Andrew Johnson was a Democrat Senator from Tennessee who refused to leave the United States Congress when Tennessee seceded from the Union. This image was taken circa 1875. This image is courtesy of the Library of Congress. ...
... Andrew Johnson was a Democrat Senator from Tennessee who refused to leave the United States Congress when Tennessee seceded from the Union. This image was taken circa 1875. This image is courtesy of the Library of Congress. ...
photography as a primary resource worksheet and
... e. Do you think is a place where the soldiers will live like a camp or do you think this is set up for some other reason? Explain your answer. They could answer that it is a camp or that they dug into the ground to protect themselves in the future. Either is acceptable with the appropriate argument ...
... e. Do you think is a place where the soldiers will live like a camp or do you think this is set up for some other reason? Explain your answer. They could answer that it is a camp or that they dug into the ground to protect themselves in the future. Either is acceptable with the appropriate argument ...
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CIVIL WAR BATTLES 63
... close as the Confederates jealously guarded this crossing point. Union reserves consisted of V Corps under the command of Gen. Fitz-John Porter. McClellan’s plan was simple and methodical. He would send his strongest corps, under the commands of Hooker, Mansfield and Sumner, against Lee’s strungout ...
... close as the Confederates jealously guarded this crossing point. Union reserves consisted of V Corps under the command of Gen. Fitz-John Porter. McClellan’s plan was simple and methodical. He would send his strongest corps, under the commands of Hooker, Mansfield and Sumner, against Lee’s strungout ...
review for quiz 2 notes 3
... To persuade the South to surrender and end the war so they could once again rejoin the Union ...
... To persuade the South to surrender and end the war so they could once again rejoin the Union ...
Military-History-Anniversaries-0601-thru
... Jun 04 1944 – WW2: A hunter–killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U–505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. ...
... Jun 04 1944 – WW2: A hunter–killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U–505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. ...
Military History Anniversaries 0601 thru 061516
... Jun 04 1944 – WW2: A hunter–killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U–505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. ...
... Jun 04 1944 – WW2: A hunter–killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U–505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. ...
ROBERT GOULD SHAW AND THE 54 MASSACHUSETTS INTRODUCTION
... led the 54th, whose contingent of troops included two of Frederick Douglass’ sons through training as well into battle in South Carolina. In July 1863, Shaw requested “the honor” of the 54th to lead the Union charge against Fort Wagner, in Charleston Harbor. There, Shaw and many of his men were kill ...
... led the 54th, whose contingent of troops included two of Frederick Douglass’ sons through training as well into battle in South Carolina. In July 1863, Shaw requested “the honor” of the 54th to lead the Union charge against Fort Wagner, in Charleston Harbor. There, Shaw and many of his men were kill ...
Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War
The history of African Americans in the American Civil War is marked by 186,097 (7,122 officers, 178,975 enlisted/soldiers & sailors) African Americans comprising 163 units who served in the United States Army, then nicknamed the ""Union Army"" during the Civil War. Later in the War many regiments were recruited and organized as the ""United States Colored Troops"", which reinforced the Northern side substantially in the last two years.Many more African Americans served in the United States Navy also known as the ""Union Navy"" and formed a large percentage of many ships' crews. Both free African Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight.On the Confederate/Southern side, both free and slave Blacks were used for manual labor, but the issue of whether to arm them, and under what terms, became a major source of debate within the Confederate Congress, the President's Cabinet, and C.S. War Department staff. They were authorized in the last month of the War in March 1865, to recruit, train and arm slaves, but no significant numbers were ever raised or recruited.