the rise and fall of General George B. McClellan.
... Unites States Military Academy at West Point to gain a clearer picture of who was in the army at the start of hostilities. For comparative purposes, the chapter further delves into what was happening in the lives of two generals that would later lead the Union to victory, Ulysses S. Grant and Willia ...
... Unites States Military Academy at West Point to gain a clearer picture of who was in the army at the start of hostilities. For comparative purposes, the chapter further delves into what was happening in the lives of two generals that would later lead the Union to victory, Ulysses S. Grant and Willia ...
Vol. 21 No. 3 - Grand Canyon Historical Society
... John’s obituary in the Coconino Sun on January 17, 1919, but George, who was many years younger than John, seemed cautious about this, saying “I have only his statement as to his age.” George also said that the day of birth was September 11. A week previously, the newspaper had listed Hance as “abou ...
... John’s obituary in the Coconino Sun on January 17, 1919, but George, who was many years younger than John, seemed cautious about this, saying “I have only his statement as to his age.” George also said that the day of birth was September 11. A week previously, the newspaper had listed Hance as “abou ...
My will is absolute law“ General Robert H. Milroy and
... biographical information about Milroy, who has never before been the subject of a biography. Milroy does not hold a place in the pantheon of famous Union commanders. Yet, he does rank among the most eccentric in battlefield behavior, one of the cruelest toward Confederate civilians, and one of the s ...
... biographical information about Milroy, who has never before been the subject of a biography. Milroy does not hold a place in the pantheon of famous Union commanders. Yet, he does rank among the most eccentric in battlefield behavior, one of the cruelest toward Confederate civilians, and one of the s ...
A Mainer From Rockland: Adelbert Ames in the Civil War.
... who had already landed received orders to withdraw. A majority of the Union force did not engage the enemy. Believing that the fort was undamaged by the naval barrage, fearing Confederate infantry reinforcements, and concerned about the weather, Butler ordered that the troops return to the ships. Be ...
... who had already landed received orders to withdraw. A majority of the Union force did not engage the enemy. Believing that the fort was undamaged by the naval barrage, fearing Confederate infantry reinforcements, and concerned about the weather, Butler ordered that the troops return to the ships. Be ...
Conflict and Controversy in the Confederate High Command
... Sherman's communications. Second, the president's tendency to allow his personal feelings to affect his decisions regarding strategy and his handling of officers proved disastrous to Confederate chances in the West. Davis's friendship with Braxton Bragg resulted in Bragg's appointment as the preside ...
... Sherman's communications. Second, the president's tendency to allow his personal feelings to affect his decisions regarding strategy and his handling of officers proved disastrous to Confederate chances in the West. Davis's friendship with Braxton Bragg resulted in Bragg's appointment as the preside ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest: The Confederacy`s Self
... prowl," "he at once became apprehensive, because the latter [Forrest] was amenable to no known rules of procedure, was a law unto himself for all military acts, and was constantly doing the unexpected at all times and places." 6 Forrest gained his reputation through extraordinary ·accomplishments, s ...
... prowl," "he at once became apprehensive, because the latter [Forrest] was amenable to no known rules of procedure, was a law unto himself for all military acts, and was constantly doing the unexpected at all times and places." 6 Forrest gained his reputation through extraordinary ·accomplishments, s ...
Reign of Terror - Washington and Lee`s Digital Archive
... secede from the Confederacy. He declared that if “the arteries of the Confederate heart do not permeate beyond the east bank of the Mississippi,” then the people of Arkansas would “build them a new ark and launch it on new waters.”4 Though Rector overplayed his hand by threatening secession, his con ...
... secede from the Confederacy. He declared that if “the arteries of the Confederate heart do not permeate beyond the east bank of the Mississippi,” then the people of Arkansas would “build them a new ark and launch it on new waters.”4 Though Rector overplayed his hand by threatening secession, his con ...
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 ...
Mercer Museum and Spruance Library of the Bucks
... Folder 1 – contains miscellaneous receipts issued for donations made to the Bucks County relief fund between 1862 and 1865. Folder 2 – contains miscellaneous documents concerning the Bucks County pension fund for veterans and their families including requests for pensions, receipts for dispersed fun ...
... Folder 1 – contains miscellaneous receipts issued for donations made to the Bucks County relief fund between 1862 and 1865. Folder 2 – contains miscellaneous documents concerning the Bucks County pension fund for veterans and their families including requests for pensions, receipts for dispersed fun ...
“I Intend to Give Blows”: The Hundred Days
... country – not meaning by this, however, that I may not land a force, deemed necessary, to relieve a fort upon a border of the country.”15 On April 14, upon receiving word of Sumter’s surrender, the president met with Scott, Pennsylvania Governor Andrew G. Curtin, and Alexander K. McClure, chairman o ...
... country – not meaning by this, however, that I may not land a force, deemed necessary, to relieve a fort upon a border of the country.”15 On April 14, upon receiving word of Sumter’s surrender, the president met with Scott, Pennsylvania Governor Andrew G. Curtin, and Alexander K. McClure, chairman o ...
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 ...
civil war web - Web Sources for Military History
... Union soldiers, and the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama have made the premier list. Four sites on blacks and slavery—the Dred Scott Case, Harper’s Weekly reports on Black America, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture, and advertisements for Virginia runaways—constitute the biggest new bloc ...
... Union soldiers, and the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama have made the premier list. Four sites on blacks and slavery—the Dred Scott Case, Harper’s Weekly reports on Black America, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture, and advertisements for Virginia runaways—constitute the biggest new bloc ...
John Bell Hood: Extracting Truth from History
... army.”21 The account of a North Carolina newspaperman who saw Hood following his recovery from losing a leg at Chickamauga also serves as contrast: “his personal appearance,” the reporter commented, “like that of many other men of signal bravery,” was the very opposite “of the conventional idea of a ...
... army.”21 The account of a North Carolina newspaperman who saw Hood following his recovery from losing a leg at Chickamauga also serves as contrast: “his personal appearance,” the reporter commented, “like that of many other men of signal bravery,” was the very opposite “of the conventional idea of a ...
Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks
... between the years 1861 and 1865. It is likely that I failed to find information on a few shipwrecks, but I feel confident that the vast majority of wrecks related to the Civil War are included. For some shipwrecks I found very limited information, while in the case of others there is much published an ...
... between the years 1861 and 1865. It is likely that I failed to find information on a few shipwrecks, but I feel confident that the vast majority of wrecks related to the Civil War are included. For some shipwrecks I found very limited information, while in the case of others there is much published an ...
Boxing in the Union Blue: A Social History of American Boxing in the
... country, performing in sparring exhibitions at jam-packed halls and saloons throughout ...
... country, performing in sparring exhibitions at jam-packed halls and saloons throughout ...
Newtonia Battlefields Special Resource Study
... a high degree of integrity, it does not meet significance criteria. General Price’s Missouri Expedition was a campaign with nationwide repercussions; however, the site of the Second Battle of Newtonia does not represent major aspects of the campaign as well as comparable battlefields, and therefore, ...
... a high degree of integrity, it does not meet significance criteria. General Price’s Missouri Expedition was a campaign with nationwide repercussions; however, the site of the Second Battle of Newtonia does not represent major aspects of the campaign as well as comparable battlefields, and therefore, ...
a PDF version of the guide to Virginia`s Civil War.
... city's fortifications (section 5), and letters, 1861, from John Bolling (d. 1905) of Company G of the 3d Virginia Cavalry Regiment describing scouting duty on the Peninsula, cavalry ambush tactics, and a skirmish with Union troops (section 7). Armstrong, Sally, Diary, 1863. 1 item. Copy. Mss5:1AR585 ...
... city's fortifications (section 5), and letters, 1861, from John Bolling (d. 1905) of Company G of the 3d Virginia Cavalry Regiment describing scouting duty on the Peninsula, cavalry ambush tactics, and a skirmish with Union troops (section 7). Armstrong, Sally, Diary, 1863. 1 item. Copy. Mss5:1AR585 ...
History 202 Meeting of Minds Character Questions - Linn
... I'll ask how she and her family felt about the issues of slavery and secession in the years before the Civil War. Did they have strong feelings about slavery? If so, what were those feelings? And how dedicated was she and family to preserving the Union? Who were the best known friends of her family, ...
... I'll ask how she and her family felt about the issues of slavery and secession in the years before the Civil War. Did they have strong feelings about slavery? If so, what were those feelings? And how dedicated was she and family to preserving the Union? Who were the best known friends of her family, ...
Battling Memory from Memphis: Elizabeth Avery
... brood over the wrongs that had been done them, they had not had the excitement of battle to sustain them, they suffered even more than their husbands and sons and brothers. For these reasons, or perhaps just because women are less forgiving than men, it took the women of the South a long time before ...
... brood over the wrongs that had been done them, they had not had the excitement of battle to sustain them, they suffered even more than their husbands and sons and brothers. For these reasons, or perhaps just because women are less forgiving than men, it took the women of the South a long time before ...
New Orleans During the Civil War
... Copyright © 2016 The Historic New Orleans Collection | www.hnoc.org | copyright © 2016 The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History | www.gilderlehrman.org ...
... Copyright © 2016 The Historic New Orleans Collection | www.hnoc.org | copyright © 2016 The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History | www.gilderlehrman.org ...
KENTUCKY`S CONFLICT AS A BORDER STATE DURING THE
... sympathizers expelled the Confederates. He presents the case that Kentucky never wholeheartedly made up its mind. Kentucky was drawn to the South by personal and social ties. It had a growing commerce with the Gulf States, but most importantly a fear for the safety of the institution of slavery. Cou ...
... sympathizers expelled the Confederates. He presents the case that Kentucky never wholeheartedly made up its mind. Kentucky was drawn to the South by personal and social ties. It had a growing commerce with the Gulf States, but most importantly a fear for the safety of the institution of slavery. Cou ...
The plunge into secession: The Presbyterian schism
... Charles Hodge was born in 1797 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania into an educated family. His father, Hugh, was schooled at Princeton and obtained a medical degree. His father died when Charles was seven months old. Hodge was surrounded by an extended familial unit of lawyers, ministers, and merchants. ...
... Charles Hodge was born in 1797 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania into an educated family. His father, Hugh, was schooled at Princeton and obtained a medical degree. His father died when Charles was seven months old. Hodge was surrounded by an extended familial unit of lawyers, ministers, and merchants. ...
civil war generals of the union - Teaching American History -TAH2
... Army Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point 1st West Point graduate to be promoted to a general officer in the regular army U.S. Representative from Virginia’s 3 district (1879 – ...
... Army Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point 1st West Point graduate to be promoted to a general officer in the regular army U.S. Representative from Virginia’s 3 district (1879 – ...
ACP 2
... 53. How did these innovations in technology affect Texas’s economy near the end of the nineteenth century? (7.6b) a. The cattle industry grew. In addition to making large profits from meatpacking, cattle processors gained even greater profits with the production of by-products. b. Farming is revolut ...
... 53. How did these innovations in technology affect Texas’s economy near the end of the nineteenth century? (7.6b) a. The cattle industry grew. In addition to making large profits from meatpacking, cattle processors gained even greater profits with the production of by-products. b. Farming is revolut ...
Alabama in the American Civil War
The U.S. state of Alabama declared that it had seceded from the United States of America on January 11, 1861. It then quickly joined the Confederate States during the American Civil War. A slave state, Alabama provided a significant source of troops and leaders, military material, supplies, food, horses and mules. However, very little of the state's cotton crop could be sold, as the main port of Mobile was closed off by the U.S. Navy.