lew wallace and the civil war: politics and
... eventual enthusiastic abolitionism, along with his status as a Republican, affected his assignments as a general. Such a conversion made the political general an excellent candidate for administrator of the Middle Department, including the slave state of Maryland, later in the war. Wallace’s relatio ...
... eventual enthusiastic abolitionism, along with his status as a Republican, affected his assignments as a general. Such a conversion made the political general an excellent candidate for administrator of the Middle Department, including the slave state of Maryland, later in the war. Wallace’s relatio ...
Special Edition - Civil War Digital Home
... (No. 2) Map of the battlefield of Antietam.jpg [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 ...
... (No. 2) Map of the battlefield of Antietam.jpg [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 ...
the rise and fall of General George B. McClellan.
... descent. That chapter examines how the Unites States constructed its Army during the initial stages of the Civil War. It also evaluates the rolls of graduating classes at the Unites States Military Academy at West Point to gain a clearer picture of who was in the army at the start of hostilities. Fo ...
... descent. That chapter examines how the Unites States constructed its Army during the initial stages of the Civil War. It also evaluates the rolls of graduating classes at the Unites States Military Academy at West Point to gain a clearer picture of who was in the army at the start of hostilities. Fo ...
a strong mind: a clausewitzian biography of u
... principally to Grant’s expertise. The enormity of Grant’s transformation cannot be over-emphasized. Before the war Grant suffered “defeat” (and repeated humiliation) at the hands of alcohol, army life, bad investments and farm markets. In 1860, when Lincoln offered Robert E. Lee command of all the a ...
... principally to Grant’s expertise. The enormity of Grant’s transformation cannot be over-emphasized. Before the war Grant suffered “defeat” (and repeated humiliation) at the hands of alcohol, army life, bad investments and farm markets. In 1860, when Lincoln offered Robert E. Lee command of all the a ...
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 ...
A Mainer From Rockland: Adelbert Ames in the Civil War.
... Rod Gragg, Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher, (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991), 2-3. ...
... Rod Gragg, Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher, (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991), 2-3. ...
Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks
... Mobile Bay were blockaded by Union naval forces early in the Civil War. Mobile Bay was not permanently closed to blockade-runners until Adm. David G. Farragut’s fleet ran past Fort Morgan into Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, and defeated the Confederate Mobile fleet. Farragut’s force lost the monitor ...
... Mobile Bay were blockaded by Union naval forces early in the Civil War. Mobile Bay was not permanently closed to blockade-runners until Adm. David G. Farragut’s fleet ran past Fort Morgan into Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, and defeated the Confederate Mobile fleet. Farragut’s force lost the monitor ...
James Garfield - Capitol Square Foundation
... received tentative assignments, extended and later reversed, to stations in Florida, Virginia and South Carolina.[42] During this period of idleness in Washington waiting for an assignment, Garfield spent much of his time corresponding with old friends and family. An unsubstantiated rumor of an affa ...
... received tentative assignments, extended and later reversed, to stations in Florida, Virginia and South Carolina.[42] During this period of idleness in Washington waiting for an assignment, Garfield spent much of his time corresponding with old friends and family. An unsubstantiated rumor of an affa ...
My will is absolute law“ General Robert H. Milroy and
... From a very young age Samuel Milroy instilled in his son hatred for regular army officers and, in particular, West Point graduates.14 Perhaps Samuel Milroy despised graduates of the United States Military because of his own thwarted military ambitions. This contempt grew in Milroy throughout the ye ...
... From a very young age Samuel Milroy instilled in his son hatred for regular army officers and, in particular, West Point graduates.14 Perhaps Samuel Milroy despised graduates of the United States Military because of his own thwarted military ambitions. This contempt grew in Milroy throughout the ye ...
Conflict and Controversy in the Confederate High Command
... June the two eastern armies had settled into a siege at Petersburg which lasted until March 25, 1865. In the process Lee kept Richmond safe and his army inflicted 60,000 casualties on the Union host during the first six weeks of the campaign. 3 Lee's success during the spring and summer meant that L ...
... June the two eastern armies had settled into a siege at Petersburg which lasted until March 25, 1865. In the process Lee kept Richmond safe and his army inflicted 60,000 casualties on the Union host during the first six weeks of the campaign. 3 Lee's success during the spring and summer meant that L ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
civil war web - Web Sources for Military History
... U.S. history from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and is a former project manager for the New York Times on the Web and the former associate director of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. RICHARD JENSEN is professor emeritus of histor ...
... U.S. history from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and is a former project manager for the New York Times on the Web and the former associate director of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. RICHARD JENSEN is professor emeritus of histor ...
Newtonia Battlefields Special Resource Study
... Civil War Sites in the Trans-Mississippi West.................................................................................. 32 Sites Protecting and Interpreting the History of American Indians in the Civil War.......................... 32 Pea Ridge National Military Park, Garfield, Arkansas..... ...
... Civil War Sites in the Trans-Mississippi West.................................................................................. 32 Sites Protecting and Interpreting the History of American Indians in the Civil War.......................... 32 Pea Ridge National Military Park, Garfield, Arkansas..... ...
The Bloody Summer of 1863: How Memory and
... available to attempt to overcome the Union flank, which he disregarded.9 This decision allowed three more Union corps and General Meade to arrive and bolster their defenses, and would ultimately prove to be one of the biggest criticisms of the Confederate army at Gettysburg. On top of that, disagree ...
... available to attempt to overcome the Union flank, which he disregarded.9 This decision allowed three more Union corps and General Meade to arrive and bolster their defenses, and would ultimately prove to be one of the biggest criticisms of the Confederate army at Gettysburg. On top of that, disagree ...
"The Naples of America," Pensacola during the Civil War
... 2000 if Alabama had annexed West Florida which today boasts heavy Republican majorities. While these possibilities could produce endless debates, they signify that events involving Pensacola had the potential to direct the course of United States history. The Civil War and Reconstruction eras in Flo ...
... 2000 if Alabama had annexed West Florida which today boasts heavy Republican majorities. While these possibilities could produce endless debates, they signify that events involving Pensacola had the potential to direct the course of United States history. The Civil War and Reconstruction eras in Flo ...
Rebel Salvation: The Story of Confederate Pardons
... under Lincoln and Johnson, was written by Jonathan T. Dorris in 1953. In it, Dorris confined his study to the principal civil and military leaders of the Confederacy, without systematically analyzing the thousands of pardon petitions filed by those Rebels who had served the Confederacy as postmaster ...
... under Lincoln and Johnson, was written by Jonathan T. Dorris in 1953. In it, Dorris confined his study to the principal civil and military leaders of the Confederacy, without systematically analyzing the thousands of pardon petitions filed by those Rebels who had served the Confederacy as postmaster ...
Sarah Emma Edmonds (Seelye):
... “It is strange how sickness and disease disarm our antipathy and remove our prejudices. There lay before me an enemy to the Government for which I was daily and willingly exposing my life and suffering unspeakable privation; he may have been the very man who took deadly aim at my friend and sent the ...
... “It is strange how sickness and disease disarm our antipathy and remove our prejudices. There lay before me an enemy to the Government for which I was daily and willingly exposing my life and suffering unspeakable privation; he may have been the very man who took deadly aim at my friend and sent the ...
Military History Anniversaries 01 thru 30 June
... Jun 11 1942 – World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. Jun 12 1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptio ...
... Jun 11 1942 – World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. Jun 12 1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptio ...
Military History Anniversaries 0601 thru 0630
... Jun 11 1942 – World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. Jun 12 1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptio ...
... Jun 11 1942 – World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. Jun 12 1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptio ...
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 ...
SUMMARY This thesis is an investigation about Stephen Crane who
... accident. Moreover, he refused to say who the man was or by whom he had been hurt. During his time in the newspaper, he met various journalists and painters and now he lived with a group of them on East Twenty-Third Street. Crane wrote his first major work of fiction, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, ...
... accident. Moreover, he refused to say who the man was or by whom he had been hurt. During his time in the newspaper, he met various journalists and painters and now he lived with a group of them on East Twenty-Third Street. Crane wrote his first major work of fiction, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, ...
Edward G Eggeling - NC in the Civil War Home Page
... with his resume before the President. “I presented myself before the President, who had already had a statement of my case from Mrs. DAVIS. The President said but little. He took my letters of indorsement, and after reading them through carefully, remarked: ‘But if I should engage you, how would you ...
... with his resume before the President. “I presented myself before the President, who had already had a statement of my case from Mrs. DAVIS. The President said but little. He took my letters of indorsement, and after reading them through carefully, remarked: ‘But if I should engage you, how would you ...
Battle of Namozine Church
The Battle of Namozine Church, Virginia was an engagement between Union Army and Confederate States Army forces that occurred on April 3, 1865 during the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War. The battle was the first engagement between units of General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia after that army's evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia on April 2, 1865 and units of the Union Army (Army of the Shenandoah, Army of the Potomac and Army of the James) under the immediate command of Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, who was still acting independently as commander of the Army of the Shenandoah, and under the overall direction of Union General-in-Chief Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. The forces immediately engaged in the battle were brigades of the cavalry division of Union Brig. Gen. and Brevet Maj. Gen. George Armstrong Custer, especially the brigade of Colonel and Brevet Brig. Gen. William Wells, and the Confederate rear guard cavalry brigades of Brig. Gen. William P. Roberts and Brig. Gen. Rufus Barringer and later in the engagement, Confederate infantry from the division of Maj. Gen. Bushrod Johnson.The engagement signaled the beginning of the Union Army's relentless pursuit of the Confederate forces (Army of Northern Virginia and Richmond local defense forces) after the fall of Petersburg and Richmond after the Third Battle of Petersburg (sometimes known as the Breakthrough at Petersburg or Fall of Petersburg), which led to the near disintegration of Lee's forces within 6 days and the Army of Northern Virginia's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865. Capt. Tom Custer, the general's brother, was cited at this battle for the first of two Medals of Honor that he received for actions within four days.