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... Morton studied at Miami University in Ohio before entering the legal profession in Centerville. He served a short time as a judge but soon became a corporate lawyer, handling a number of cases for railroad companies. Interested in politics from an early age, Morton identified with the Democratic Par ...
... Morton studied at Miami University in Ohio before entering the legal profession in Centerville. He served a short time as a judge but soon became a corporate lawyer, handling a number of cases for railroad companies. Interested in politics from an early age, Morton identified with the Democratic Par ...
Military History Anniversaries 0401 thru 0430
... Yorktown) in Virginia. Casualties and losses: US 165 - CSA 75. Apr 16 1863 - Civil War: Union Admiral David Dixon Porter leads 12 ships past the heavy barrage of Confederate artillery at Vicksburg, Mississippi. He lost only one ship, and the operation speeded General Ulysses S. Grant's movement agai ...
... Yorktown) in Virginia. Casualties and losses: US 165 - CSA 75. Apr 16 1863 - Civil War: Union Admiral David Dixon Porter leads 12 ships past the heavy barrage of Confederate artillery at Vicksburg, Mississippi. He lost only one ship, and the operation speeded General Ulysses S. Grant's movement agai ...
A Southerner for the Union: Major General George Henry Thomas
... off to them as tardiness in responding to orders. According to Benson Bobrick, although he is not specific, some may argue that Thomas was being stubborn and was responding to their resentment with his own version of the same. However, Thomas considered every decision methodically and refused to act ...
... off to them as tardiness in responding to orders. According to Benson Bobrick, although he is not specific, some may argue that Thomas was being stubborn and was responding to their resentment with his own version of the same. However, Thomas considered every decision methodically and refused to act ...
Dividing and Unifying: The Response to the Emancipation Proclamation, by Aaron Raschke
... was a conservative document that was intended to ease the North into the idea of all the slaves being free without actually freeing many slaves. Lincoln believed emancipation of the slaves was important to winning the war and in the Emancipation Proclamation he relayed that message to the general pu ...
... was a conservative document that was intended to ease the North into the idea of all the slaves being free without actually freeing many slaves. Lincoln believed emancipation of the slaves was important to winning the war and in the Emancipation Proclamation he relayed that message to the general pu ...
a PDF version of the guide to Virginia`s Civil War.
... wounding in battle and recovery in a hospital at Hampton. Other items include copies of Allen's enlistment and discharge papers (pp. iv and 671). The letters (with typed transcriptions) have been compiled as Dear Frank: The War Years, 1862-1865: The Civil War Letters of Orrin S. Allen to His Wife Fr ...
... wounding in battle and recovery in a hospital at Hampton. Other items include copies of Allen's enlistment and discharge papers (pp. iv and 671). The letters (with typed transcriptions) have been compiled as Dear Frank: The War Years, 1862-1865: The Civil War Letters of Orrin S. Allen to His Wife Fr ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest: The Confederacy`s Self
... one expedition through northern Alabama and south central Tennessee (Sept . 21-0ct. 6, 1864), Forrest reported capturing "86 commissioned officers, 1274 non-commissioned officers and privates, 67 government employees, [and] 933 negroes" while killing and wounding "about 1000 more," totaling "an aver ...
... one expedition through northern Alabama and south central Tennessee (Sept . 21-0ct. 6, 1864), Forrest reported capturing "86 commissioned officers, 1274 non-commissioned officers and privates, 67 government employees, [and] 933 negroes" while killing and wounding "about 1000 more," totaling "an aver ...
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 ...
civil war web - Web Sources for Military History
... The Internet is moving Civil War research—indeed, all historical research—into an entirely new dimension. That has not always been the case. In its early years the World Wide Web offered very little that working Civil War historians could reliably use to penetrate the past. That situation is dramati ...
... The Internet is moving Civil War research—indeed, all historical research—into an entirely new dimension. That has not always been the case. In its early years the World Wide Web offered very little that working Civil War historians could reliably use to penetrate the past. That situation is dramati ...
"The greatest evil that can befall us" : Unionism in
... to preserve the Union. This chapter concludes that Kentuckians' proslavery and proUnion sentiment was rooted in their pre-war Whig political ideology. During the secession winter of 1860-1861 Kentuckians found themselves in the middle of the great sectional controversy. The question whether to maint ...
... to preserve the Union. This chapter concludes that Kentuckians' proslavery and proUnion sentiment was rooted in their pre-war Whig political ideology. During the secession winter of 1860-1861 Kentuckians found themselves in the middle of the great sectional controversy. The question whether to maint ...
Nullification, A Constitutional History, 1776
... uncomfortable with this aspect of their past. This reconstruction of a critical event in the early national history, long in the making, began in the 1970’s at the University of South Carolina to whom this volume is dedicated along with the good people of the Palmetto state who made a native Virgini ...
... uncomfortable with this aspect of their past. This reconstruction of a critical event in the early national history, long in the making, began in the 1970’s at the University of South Carolina to whom this volume is dedicated along with the good people of the Palmetto state who made a native Virgini ...
Freedwomen in pursuit of liberty: St. Louis and Missouri in the age of
... This dissertation examines African American women’s struggles for freedom and civil status during and immediately following the Civil War. Popular conceptions of the Civil War have been dominated by histories that erase the political actions of the enslaved population.7 But the actions of enslaved w ...
... This dissertation examines African American women’s struggles for freedom and civil status during and immediately following the Civil War. Popular conceptions of the Civil War have been dominated by histories that erase the political actions of the enslaved population.7 But the actions of enslaved w ...
ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: “TO AID THEIR REBEL FRIENDS”: POLITICS
... The completion of this dissertation would not have been possible without the help and support of many people and institutions. Fellowships from the H. B. Earhart Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation enabled me to spend the final four years of graduate school focusing on my dissertat ...
... The completion of this dissertation would not have been possible without the help and support of many people and institutions. Fellowships from the H. B. Earhart Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation enabled me to spend the final four years of graduate school focusing on my dissertat ...
Military History Anniversaries 0701 thru 0731
... Jul 26 1945 – WW2: The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Jul 26 1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United St ...
... Jul 26 1945 – WW2: The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Jul 26 1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United St ...
Nonfiction Reading Passages and Crosswords
... space vehicles that transport astronauts into outer space. Near this futuristic space center stand historic antebellum mansions, built before the Civil War. During the Civil War, Montgomery became the first Confederate capital, where Jefferson Davis served as Confederate President. The Confederate S ...
... space vehicles that transport astronauts into outer space. Near this futuristic space center stand historic antebellum mansions, built before the Civil War. During the Civil War, Montgomery became the first Confederate capital, where Jefferson Davis served as Confederate President. The Confederate S ...
Mercer Museum and Spruance Library of the Bucks
... Board of Relief for Volunteers Register, 1862 (BM B-304) This collection contains a minute and record book of relief funds that were dispersed to the families of enlisted soldiers from Bucks County between May 1861 and October 1862. The ledger tracks the requisition and dispersal of relief funds dur ...
... Board of Relief for Volunteers Register, 1862 (BM B-304) This collection contains a minute and record book of relief funds that were dispersed to the families of enlisted soldiers from Bucks County between May 1861 and October 1862. The ledger tracks the requisition and dispersal of relief funds dur ...
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 ...
AMERICAN PACIFISTS: THE QUAKERS, THE DISCIPLES OF
... commitment to peace and dreamed of a system of international arbitration, but slowly retreated from their traditional positions, including pacifism. The split that occurred among the Disciples during the war worsened, leading to an official separation in 1906. What caused these radically different r ...
... commitment to peace and dreamed of a system of international arbitration, but slowly retreated from their traditional positions, including pacifism. The split that occurred among the Disciples during the war worsened, leading to an official separation in 1906. What caused these radically different r ...
Battling Memory from Memphis: Elizabeth Avery
... Straddling her commitment to the Old South and the past it represents while also looking to the future of the reunited nation and working to advance progressive reforms, Meriwether is an interesting case study. But even though she was a complex national figure with eclectic passions, Meriwether stro ...
... Straddling her commitment to the Old South and the past it represents while also looking to the future of the reunited nation and working to advance progressive reforms, Meriwether is an interesting case study. But even though she was a complex national figure with eclectic passions, Meriwether stro ...
Civil War prisons in American memory
... Mickey Roth, Chris Waldrip, and Stephen Wedding made my first year of full-time teaching so much fun that I still had energy left to go home and write. With me every step of the way through graduate school were Court Carney, Rand Dotson, and Matt Reonas. This dissertation might have existed sooner i ...
... Mickey Roth, Chris Waldrip, and Stephen Wedding made my first year of full-time teaching so much fun that I still had energy left to go home and write. With me every step of the way through graduate school were Court Carney, Rand Dotson, and Matt Reonas. This dissertation might have existed sooner i ...
civil war prisons in american memory
... Mickey Roth, Chris Waldrip, and Stephen Wedding made my first year of full-time teaching so much fun that I still had energy left to go home and write. With me every step of the way through graduate school were Court Carney, Rand Dotson, and Matt Reonas. This dissertation might have existed sooner i ...
... Mickey Roth, Chris Waldrip, and Stephen Wedding made my first year of full-time teaching so much fun that I still had energy left to go home and write. With me every step of the way through graduate school were Court Carney, Rand Dotson, and Matt Reonas. This dissertation might have existed sooner i ...
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... Methodist Episcopal Church and both the Masonic and Odd Fellows Lodges.12 The Fayette County to which Edward G. Roddy came in 1843 was a community with a longtime tradition as a Democratic stronghold, being carried by that party's candidates in eight of nine presidential elections between 1828 and 1 ...
... Methodist Episcopal Church and both the Masonic and Odd Fellows Lodges.12 The Fayette County to which Edward G. Roddy came in 1843 was a community with a longtime tradition as a Democratic stronghold, being carried by that party's candidates in eight of nine presidential elections between 1828 and 1 ...
The Graduate School College of the Liberal Arts
... organization. Although no formal codification delineated the exact process of building a military unit, all participants who created them agreed that it was a process, one that took weeks—even months—to finalize. To use the parlance of the day, Civil War manpower mobilization became the means by whi ...
... organization. Although no formal codification delineated the exact process of building a military unit, all participants who created them agreed that it was a process, one that took weeks—even months—to finalize. To use the parlance of the day, Civil War manpower mobilization became the means by whi ...
Military History Anniversaries 01 thru 30 June
... Jun 05 1864 – Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. Casualties and losses: US 875 - CSA 1,500. Jun 05 1917 – WWI: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day". Ten ...
... Jun 05 1864 – Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. Casualties and losses: US 875 - CSA 1,500. Jun 05 1917 – WWI: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day". Ten ...
Military History Anniversaries 0601 thru 0630
... Jun 05 1864 – Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. Casualties and losses: US 875 - CSA 1,500. Jun 05 1917 – WWI: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day". Ten ...
... Jun 05 1864 – Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. Casualties and losses: US 875 - CSA 1,500. Jun 05 1917 – WWI: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day". Ten ...
I Will Suffer Death Before I Will Consent to Any
... Radicals like Zachariah Chandler believed “all will be well” if Lincoln would only “‘Stand like an Anvil when the sparks fall thick & fast, a fiery shower,’” but some Republicans feared that he would not do so.2 A few days after the election, Charles Francis Adams viewed Southern threats to secede a ...
... Radicals like Zachariah Chandler believed “all will be well” if Lincoln would only “‘Stand like an Anvil when the sparks fall thick & fast, a fiery shower,’” but some Republicans feared that he would not do so.2 A few days after the election, Charles Francis Adams viewed Southern threats to secede a ...
Mississippi in the American Civil War
Mississippi was the second southern U.S. state to declare its secession from the Union on January 9, 1861. With its Secession Ordinance, Mississippi joined with six other southern slave-holding states to form the Confederacy a month later, on February 4, 1861. Mississippi's location along the lengthy Mississippi River made it strategically important to both the Union and the Confederacy; dozens of battles were fought in the state as armies repeatedly clashed near key towns and cities.Mississippian troops fought in every major theater of the American Civil War, although most were concentrated in the Western Theater. The only Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, though born in Kentucky, spent his formative years in Mississippi. Prominent Mississippian generals during the war included William Barksdale, Carnot Posey, Wirt Adams, Earl Van Dorn, Robert Lowry and Benjamin G. Humphreys.