Special Edition - Civil War Digital Home
... [Map of the defeat of the Confederate ship Alabama by the U.S. steamer Kearsarge on June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France].jpg 1862 map of the James River.jpg 2nd attack on Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River, Georgia.jpg A complete map of Richmond and its fortifications within a circle of 12 miles ...
... [Map of the defeat of the Confederate ship Alabama by the U.S. steamer Kearsarge on June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France].jpg 1862 map of the James River.jpg 2nd attack on Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River, Georgia.jpg A complete map of Richmond and its fortifications within a circle of 12 miles ...
lew wallace and the civil war: politics and
... elections in the South during Reconstruction, but such later positions were reserved mostly for West Pointers, and evidently with little thought to what had been done in similar circumstances during the war. While Wallace was stationed in Baltimore, Confederate general Jubal Early and his army made ...
... elections in the South during Reconstruction, but such later positions were reserved mostly for West Pointers, and evidently with little thought to what had been done in similar circumstances during the war. While Wallace was stationed in Baltimore, Confederate general Jubal Early and his army made ...
the rise and fall of General George B. McClellan.
... context is that McClellan lived in one reality while the rest of the world lived in a separate reality. No matter how many times these two realities clashed, McClellan continued to live in his own reality. Thus, McClellan's distinct reality allowed him to make decisions that others living in true r ...
... context is that McClellan lived in one reality while the rest of the world lived in a separate reality. No matter how many times these two realities clashed, McClellan continued to live in his own reality. Thus, McClellan's distinct reality allowed him to make decisions that others living in true r ...
Vol. 21 No. 3 - Grand Canyon Historical Society
... Aside from the board and other symposium partner groups, there will be a big need for additional symposium volunteers over the next year and a half. We have already received responses and offers to help from a number of members (Thank you!), but we will likely need some more. If you are interested i ...
... Aside from the board and other symposium partner groups, there will be a big need for additional symposium volunteers over the next year and a half. We have already received responses and offers to help from a number of members (Thank you!), but we will likely need some more. If you are interested i ...
My will is absolute law“ General Robert H. Milroy and
... despised professional soldiers and spent his Civil War career trying to prove that nonprofessional volunteer officers were equal or better in ability to graduates of the United States Military Academy. “My will is absolute law” also serves as a valuable tool for scholars interested in understanding ...
... despised professional soldiers and spent his Civil War career trying to prove that nonprofessional volunteer officers were equal or better in ability to graduates of the United States Military Academy. “My will is absolute law” also serves as a valuable tool for scholars interested in understanding ...
James Moore Wayne and Georgia Unionism
... “freedom” or “union,” principles generating few sparks in ordinary men’s minds unless they were conceived as synonyms for personal and familial security and selfregard. Honor was seen as for southerners as their “theology,” one “endowed with sacred symbolism.” The “cardinal principle of honor was fa ...
... “freedom” or “union,” principles generating few sparks in ordinary men’s minds unless they were conceived as synonyms for personal and familial security and selfregard. Honor was seen as for southerners as their “theology,” one “endowed with sacred symbolism.” The “cardinal principle of honor was fa ...
A Mainer From Rockland: Adelbert Ames in the Civil War.
... Carolina, the formidable fortress had evaded capture while Federal forces held Charleston, Mobile, and every meaningful fortification along the Mississippi River.1 Its capture would most certainly deliver a severe moral and logistical blow to the weakening Southern armies. Robert E. Lee declared tha ...
... Carolina, the formidable fortress had evaded capture while Federal forces held Charleston, Mobile, and every meaningful fortification along the Mississippi River.1 Its capture would most certainly deliver a severe moral and logistical blow to the weakening Southern armies. Robert E. Lee declared tha ...
gettysburg to appomattox: the south`s critical
... Jefferson: Route 522) to view his papers and other historical objects of that period of our founding fathers, and to remember that "all men are created equal". But the Northern States were not dependant on slavery for their economic wellbeing. Their population expanded with immigration from Europe, ...
... Jefferson: Route 522) to view his papers and other historical objects of that period of our founding fathers, and to remember that "all men are created equal". But the Northern States were not dependant on slavery for their economic wellbeing. Their population expanded with immigration from Europe, ...
Stephen C. Rowan and the US Navy: Sixty
... while serving in the Navy, and his family’s continued military service. This thesis outlines the larger role played by the Navy in each engagement, with particular emphasis on the theaters of war in which Rowan participated (the Californian and Mexican west coast during the Mexican War, and his rive ...
... while serving in the Navy, and his family’s continued military service. This thesis outlines the larger role played by the Navy in each engagement, with particular emphasis on the theaters of war in which Rowan participated (the Californian and Mexican west coast during the Mexican War, and his rive ...
the missouri state guard - Northwest Missouri State University
... are glossed over as events moved towards Wilson’s Creek. The MSG was routed at Booneville, but they won a smashing victory at Carthage. Both battles were relatively small in scale, but questions of why Carthage was such a success and an analysis of how this success compares to future MSG engagements ...
... are glossed over as events moved towards Wilson’s Creek. The MSG was routed at Booneville, but they won a smashing victory at Carthage. Both battles were relatively small in scale, but questions of why Carthage was such a success and an analysis of how this success compares to future MSG engagements ...
Forgotten Abolitionist: John A. J. Creswell of Maryland
... raise their children alone.7 Though this was an obvious emotional struggle for a young son, the family's wealth and connections may have cushioned the blow. Creswell’s uncle, for example, was banker Jacob Tome, who had arrived in Maryland penniless from his Hanover, Pennsylvania birthplace and by t ...
... raise their children alone.7 Though this was an obvious emotional struggle for a young son, the family's wealth and connections may have cushioned the blow. Creswell’s uncle, for example, was banker Jacob Tome, who had arrived in Maryland penniless from his Hanover, Pennsylvania birthplace and by t ...
Jenkins` Ferry Pres plan Draft.indd
... Edmund Kirby Smith’s Confederate army caught Gen. Frederick Steele’s Union army south of Leola, Arkansas. The Union forces held off the Confederates that day, allowing the Union army to escape into the Saline River bottom. On April 30, 1864, Union infantry repulsed a succession of Confederate attack ...
... Edmund Kirby Smith’s Confederate army caught Gen. Frederick Steele’s Union army south of Leola, Arkansas. The Union forces held off the Confederates that day, allowing the Union army to escape into the Saline River bottom. On April 30, 1864, Union infantry repulsed a succession of Confederate attack ...
Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks
... that collided with another vessel or object and sank, or one that was generally made unusable without salvage and substantial repairs. Vessels temporarily grounded or beached have generally been excluded. For several vessels it was difficult to decide whether or not they were shipwrecks. Some blocka ...
... that collided with another vessel or object and sank, or one that was generally made unusable without salvage and substantial repairs. Vessels temporarily grounded or beached have generally been excluded. For several vessels it was difficult to decide whether or not they were shipwrecks. Some blocka ...
ProQuest Dissertations - Rice Scholarship Home
... western portions of the state throughout the late antebellum decades, ties that brought the state closer to the North and a wage labor model for social organization, a significant number of Marylanders—including those who did not own slaves—still identified with traditional business, cultural, and s ...
... western portions of the state throughout the late antebellum decades, ties that brought the state closer to the North and a wage labor model for social organization, a significant number of Marylanders—including those who did not own slaves—still identified with traditional business, cultural, and s ...
Friday - The Hudson River Valley Institute
... Infantry Regiment. It served as the mustering site and a place for troops to stay. Camp Dutchess was temporary, but barracks and a mess hall were constructed. While you can no longer see those structures, it is truly remarkable to be able to visit the site where, on the 11th of October, 1862, the Du ...
... Infantry Regiment. It served as the mustering site and a place for troops to stay. Camp Dutchess was temporary, but barracks and a mess hall were constructed. While you can no longer see those structures, it is truly remarkable to be able to visit the site where, on the 11th of October, 1862, the Du ...
Reign of Terror - Washington and Lee`s Digital Archive
... 9 In his introduction to his work on the transformation of the frontier status of Kentucky in the early nineteenth century, Stephen Aron discusses the changing attitudes toward the term “frontier.” In his eye, the frontier can take on meanings of both “perimeter” and “intersection,” a geographic ...
... 9 In his introduction to his work on the transformation of the frontier status of Kentucky in the early nineteenth century, Stephen Aron discusses the changing attitudes toward the term “frontier.” In his eye, the frontier can take on meanings of both “perimeter” and “intersection,” a geographic ...
Battling Memory from Memphis: Elizabeth Avery
... Meriwether writes, “I think this perfect trust did much to smoothe the way and make our long married life a happy one wholly devoid of contentions and quarrels.”16 Not only did Meriwether enjoy a degree of financial independence rare for a nineteenth century woman, she also pseudonymously wrote arti ...
... Meriwether writes, “I think this perfect trust did much to smoothe the way and make our long married life a happy one wholly devoid of contentions and quarrels.”16 Not only did Meriwether enjoy a degree of financial independence rare for a nineteenth century woman, she also pseudonymously wrote arti ...
DeCarloFall09
... scholarly attempt to interpret the life of Civil War soldiers. Wiley’s work, though dated, is where all historians must begin when writing about a soldier’s life. He defined what aspects of a soldier’s life were important and presented his arguments based upon solid research. For decades Wiley’s wor ...
... scholarly attempt to interpret the life of Civil War soldiers. Wiley’s work, though dated, is where all historians must begin when writing about a soldier’s life. He defined what aspects of a soldier’s life were important and presented his arguments based upon solid research. For decades Wiley’s wor ...
ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: “TO AID THEIR REBEL FRIENDS”: POLITICS
... considering the paucity of actual treason cases that went to trial during the Civil War. To gain a more complete understanding of how Civil War era Americans defined treason, this study borrows from the sources and methods of social, cultural, intellectual, and military history. It employs sermons, ...
... considering the paucity of actual treason cases that went to trial during the Civil War. To gain a more complete understanding of how Civil War era Americans defined treason, this study borrows from the sources and methods of social, cultural, intellectual, and military history. It employs sermons, ...
this PDF file
... would last only until the first major battle of the war at Bull Run, in which Union troops were driven from the field in ignominious defeat. 20 Roddy and other Democrats blamed this humiliation on the Lincoln Administration's having underestimated the strength and leadership of the rebel army. Local ...
... would last only until the first major battle of the war at Bull Run, in which Union troops were driven from the field in ignominious defeat. 20 Roddy and other Democrats blamed this humiliation on the Lincoln Administration's having underestimated the strength and leadership of the rebel army. Local ...
A Southerner for the Union: Major General George Henry Thomas
... believed that he might have made his decision because his wife was from New York, and she exhibited a northern influence over him. In some areas, that may have been true, but the fact that she was not with him when he made the decision wears that argument thin. 9 This was a decision he made on his o ...
... believed that he might have made his decision because his wife was from New York, and she exhibited a northern influence over him. In some areas, that may have been true, but the fact that she was not with him when he made the decision wears that argument thin. 9 This was a decision he made on his o ...
General Daniel Edgar Sickles, Storm at the Peach Orchard
... the victor and each campaign regardless of its success would subtract from the South’s dwindling resources and add to the cumulative Union advantage of men and material. The Battle of Gettysburg began as a minor skirmish on July 1st, 1863 between a division of Union Calvary on a scouting mission and ...
... the victor and each campaign regardless of its success would subtract from the South’s dwindling resources and add to the cumulative Union advantage of men and material. The Battle of Gettysburg began as a minor skirmish on July 1st, 1863 between a division of Union Calvary on a scouting mission and ...
Meeting paper Feb 2002 - Grant – the uncaring drunken butcher?
... This paper has been prepared as the basis for a presentation to the New South Wales Chapter of the American Civil War Round Table of Australia and will be given at one of its regular meetings in 2002. The paper seeks to examine the life of General Ulysses S Grant including bringing together of a nu ...
... This paper has been prepared as the basis for a presentation to the New South Wales Chapter of the American Civil War Round Table of Australia and will be given at one of its regular meetings in 2002. The paper seeks to examine the life of General Ulysses S Grant including bringing together of a nu ...
Herman Melville`s Civil War poems of valor, heroism and suffering
... poetry and the new patriotism of compassion that he asserts throughout it. However, there exist instances in Melville‘s experience from 1861-1865 that suggest a complex relationship with the codes of war. For instance, in a letter written on May 25, 1862 to his brother Thomas, who was currently stat ...
... poetry and the new patriotism of compassion that he asserts throughout it. However, there exist instances in Melville‘s experience from 1861-1865 that suggest a complex relationship with the codes of war. For instance, in a letter written on May 25, 1862 to his brother Thomas, who was currently stat ...
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.