AtkinsThesis
... of its age, Ella Lonn’s Desertion during the Civil War has remained the starting point for all desertion studies. Lonn looked at both Union and Confederate desertion and sought to dispel the stigma of cowardice often associated with it. To achieve this, she studied chiefly the causes of desertion, y ...
... of its age, Ella Lonn’s Desertion during the Civil War has remained the starting point for all desertion studies. Lonn looked at both Union and Confederate desertion and sought to dispel the stigma of cowardice often associated with it. To achieve this, she studied chiefly the causes of desertion, y ...
THE MANY BATTLES OF GLORIETA PASS: STRUGGLES FOR THE
... land and people of that region. This maneuver was the initial step in an ambitious plan to establish the Confederacy in the western United States. The grandiose plan also anticipated providing the Confederacy with an outlet to world markets to obtain sorely needed goods to support the Confederate ca ...
... land and people of that region. This maneuver was the initial step in an ambitious plan to establish the Confederacy in the western United States. The grandiose plan also anticipated providing the Confederacy with an outlet to world markets to obtain sorely needed goods to support the Confederate ca ...
Dark Fields of the Republic: Alexander Gardner Photographs, 1859
... Alexander Gardner, others were also contributing to the development of photography as both an art form and a viable business. The nation’s capital attracted photographers such as John Plumbe who made a living taking images of the “good and the great” and landmarks of the national government. If the ...
... Alexander Gardner, others were also contributing to the development of photography as both an art form and a viable business. The nation’s capital attracted photographers such as John Plumbe who made a living taking images of the “good and the great” and landmarks of the national government. If the ...
Unionist Sentiment in Frederick, Maryland 1860-1865
... sincerity that cannot be misunderstood, opened their houses, and spread their boards with the fat of the land.”19 It should not be assumed that Personne’s account was entirely honest due to the writer’s intended audience in Charleston, an area with strong secessionist sympathies. It is highly probab ...
... sincerity that cannot be misunderstood, opened their houses, and spread their boards with the fat of the land.”19 It should not be assumed that Personne’s account was entirely honest due to the writer’s intended audience in Charleston, an area with strong secessionist sympathies. It is highly probab ...
Military History Anniversaries 1 thru 15 September
... Sep 02 1944 – WW2: Future President George Herbert Walker Bush is serving as a torpedo bomber pilot in the Pacific theater of World War II when his squadron is attacked by Japanese anti-aircraft guns. Bush was forced to bail out of the plane over the ocean. After floating on a raft for four hours, a ...
... Sep 02 1944 – WW2: Future President George Herbert Walker Bush is serving as a torpedo bomber pilot in the Pacific theater of World War II when his squadron is attacked by Japanese anti-aircraft guns. Bush was forced to bail out of the plane over the ocean. After floating on a raft for four hours, a ...
America`s Last Civil War Veterans and Participants
... proportion of babies died very young. Life expectancy was low; work and living conditions were usually horrendous and puritanical mores ruled. Few lived in the mansions or rested on porches that so much of our culture depicts. Tenements were usually noisy, filthy and cramped. Work hours were long; w ...
... proportion of babies died very young. Life expectancy was low; work and living conditions were usually horrendous and puritanical mores ruled. Few lived in the mansions or rested on porches that so much of our culture depicts. Tenements were usually noisy, filthy and cramped. Work hours were long; w ...
GEORGE G. MEADE AND HIS ROLE IN THE GETTYSBURG
... to it as the soldiers' battle, won by the men in the ranks alone, with their high-ranking officers serving as little more than window tlressing. Then, too, the victory at Gettysburg was a defensive one. With the army commander playing, supposedly, a somewhat passive if not torpid role. 1\Ieade had b ...
... to it as the soldiers' battle, won by the men in the ranks alone, with their high-ranking officers serving as little more than window tlressing. Then, too, the victory at Gettysburg was a defensive one. With the army commander playing, supposedly, a somewhat passive if not torpid role. 1\Ieade had b ...
Chapter 11
... Taking high casualties, the Union lost battles against Lee at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia. After the Union army failed in its attempts to defeat Lee, Lincoln appointed various commanders-in-chief. Lee made the decision to once again invade ...
... Taking high casualties, the Union lost battles against Lee at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia. After the Union army failed in its attempts to defeat Lee, Lincoln appointed various commanders-in-chief. Lee made the decision to once again invade ...
UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ ROBERT E. LEE IN LOVE AND WAR
... The study consists of the following: In the theoretical background, there is a chapter about North and South books and a section about the author, John Jakes. This is followed by a review of some of the previous literary studies and other alternative methodology into literary analysis, with somewhat ...
... The study consists of the following: In the theoretical background, there is a chapter about North and South books and a section about the author, John Jakes. This is followed by a review of some of the previous literary studies and other alternative methodology into literary analysis, with somewhat ...
Untitled - TCU Digital Repository
... enemy. If Commodore Farragut or Brigadier-General [Benjamin F.] Butler can teach them, let them come and try.”7 The city withstood a sporadic naval siege until late July, but by the summer of 1862 only a tenuous 100 mile section of the Mississippi River between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, Louisiana, ...
... enemy. If Commodore Farragut or Brigadier-General [Benjamin F.] Butler can teach them, let them come and try.”7 The city withstood a sporadic naval siege until late July, but by the summer of 1862 only a tenuous 100 mile section of the Mississippi River between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, Louisiana, ...
Confederate Wooden Gunboat Construction
... wooden gunboats. Coski’s organization mirrored Turner’s look at the Chattahoochee River. It might be a stretch to include Capital Navy in this historiographical evolution, but the similarities in structure to Turner’s study and the complete nature of Coski’s depiction of Confederate naval construct ...
... wooden gunboats. Coski’s organization mirrored Turner’s look at the Chattahoochee River. It might be a stretch to include Capital Navy in this historiographical evolution, but the similarities in structure to Turner’s study and the complete nature of Coski’s depiction of Confederate naval construct ...
Allow Me to Call Your Attention to the Situation of the Forts
... Therefore, the Union could begin to reconquer the state by possessing these two key points, which it understood much more quickly than the Confederacy. Faced with the constant raiding of Union merchant shipping along the Outer Banks by Confederate privateers, federal authorities were quick to recogn ...
... Therefore, the Union could begin to reconquer the state by possessing these two key points, which it understood much more quickly than the Confederacy. Faced with the constant raiding of Union merchant shipping along the Outer Banks by Confederate privateers, federal authorities were quick to recogn ...
Military History Anniversaries 0716 thru 0815
... Aug 04 1969 – Vietnam: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail. Aug 05 1861 – Civil War: Congress adopts the nation’s f ...
... Aug 04 1969 – Vietnam: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail. Aug 05 1861 – Civil War: Congress adopts the nation’s f ...
A Unique Hell in Southwestern Virginia: Confederate Guerrillas and
... South. Southwestern foodstuffs, livestock, and horses helped keep Confederate forces fed and fighting. The region’s productive salt, lead, niter, and coal mines also supplied critical raw materials to factories that kept Confederate armies supplied with ammunition, weapons, and salted rations. These ...
... South. Southwestern foodstuffs, livestock, and horses helped keep Confederate forces fed and fighting. The region’s productive salt, lead, niter, and coal mines also supplied critical raw materials to factories that kept Confederate armies supplied with ammunition, weapons, and salted rations. These ...
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 ...
Listing of books in CSO Library
... Holzer H Holzer & Neely Hughes N Hunter, A Huse C Jaffa H Johnson J Johnson S Jones K (editor) Jones J Jones V Jones W Jordan R Kaplan F Katcher P Katcher P Katcher P Keegan J Kelly B ...
... Holzer H Holzer & Neely Hughes N Hunter, A Huse C Jaffa H Johnson J Johnson S Jones K (editor) Jones J Jones V Jones W Jordan R Kaplan F Katcher P Katcher P Katcher P Keegan J Kelly B ...
General US Grant`s Effective Use of the Leadership
... power. During previous campaigns, General Grant found that, “for every combat soldier [he] had available, there were two committed to guarding the railroads upon which his army depended for resupply.”11 This decision also ensured that Union troops did not have a vulnerable supply trail. In fact, the ...
... power. During previous campaigns, General Grant found that, “for every combat soldier [he] had available, there were two committed to guarding the railroads upon which his army depended for resupply.”11 This decision also ensured that Union troops did not have a vulnerable supply trail. In fact, the ...
The Civil War Diary of Micajah A. Thomas
... began to march. Grierson met Forrest's reinforced army at Brice's Cross Roads and faced certain defeat. When Sturgis finally arrived, he misread the situation before him and led his troops into a fully prepared, hidden, and reinforced Confederate army. Four hours later Union soldiers started the ret ...
... began to march. Grierson met Forrest's reinforced army at Brice's Cross Roads and faced certain defeat. When Sturgis finally arrived, he misread the situation before him and led his troops into a fully prepared, hidden, and reinforced Confederate army. Four hours later Union soldiers started the ret ...
Veterans at Rest
... of Post 25 of the GAR here in Athens. The organization, made up of Union veterans, ceased to exist about a year after Spriggs’s death when Alfred Hacker died in 1937. Martin D. Luther, Co. I, 25th North Carolina Infantry, CSA, was born in North Carolina. A drummer boy, he was noted as the last survi ...
... of Post 25 of the GAR here in Athens. The organization, made up of Union veterans, ceased to exist about a year after Spriggs’s death when Alfred Hacker died in 1937. Martin D. Luther, Co. I, 25th North Carolina Infantry, CSA, was born in North Carolina. A drummer boy, he was noted as the last survi ...
Mosby`s Horse Artillery - Historic Fairfax City, Inc.
... Fairfax Court House were then gone with Grant’s army south of Richmond. Likewise, the troops of the Washington Defense Department headquartered at Fairfax Court House were much diminished in numbers as the Confederate Army was no longer seen as a threat to Washington, and Grant was then receiving hi ...
... Fairfax Court House were then gone with Grant’s army south of Richmond. Likewise, the troops of the Washington Defense Department headquartered at Fairfax Court House were much diminished in numbers as the Confederate Army was no longer seen as a threat to Washington, and Grant was then receiving hi ...
His Leadership During the 1864 Tennessee Campaign
... broken down.20 The result was a sound plan executed badly. When Hood got to Franklin after the Spring Hill debacle, he decided on a frontal attack. His commanders were astonished and protested that an assault would be hopeless. He also told them that there would not be time to wait for the artillery ...
... broken down.20 The result was a sound plan executed badly. When Hood got to Franklin after the Spring Hill debacle, he decided on a frontal attack. His commanders were astonished and protested that an assault would be hopeless. He also told them that there would not be time to wait for the artillery ...
Document
... battle at Buckland, "I congratulate you and your officers and your men on this handsome success. The plan was well conceived and skillfully executed." On 21October1863, General Lee must have been pleased to write to his mother with news of victory at Buckland so late in the war, " We met separately ...
... battle at Buckland, "I congratulate you and your officers and your men on this handsome success. The plan was well conceived and skillfully executed." On 21October1863, General Lee must have been pleased to write to his mother with news of victory at Buckland so late in the war, " We met separately ...
Ulysses S. Grant and the Meaning of Appomattox
... Army numbered sixteen thousand; on one day in early 1862, nearly as many surrendered. Nothing in the experience of the current generation of military leaders prepared them for the growing flood of prisoners during the Civil War. At first, the logistics were handled simply. Captives were informally e ...
... Army numbered sixteen thousand; on one day in early 1862, nearly as many surrendered. Nothing in the experience of the current generation of military leaders prepared them for the growing flood of prisoners during the Civil War. At first, the logistics were handled simply. Captives were informally e ...
Battle of Gaines's Mill
The Battle of Gaines's Mill, sometimes known as the First Battle of Cold Harbor or the Battle of Chickahominy River, took place on June 27, 1862, in Hanover County, Virginia, as the third of the Seven Days Battles (Peninsula Campaign) of the American Civil War. Following the inconclusive Battle of Beaver Dam Creek (Mechanicsville) the previous day, Confederate General Robert E. Lee renewed his attacks against the right flank of the Union Army, relatively isolated on the northern side of the Chickahominy River. There, Brig. Gen. Fitz John Porter's V Corps had established a strong defensive line behind Boatswain's Swamp. Lee's force was destined to launch the largest Confederate attack of the war, about 57,000 men in six divisions. Porter's reinforced V Corps held fast for the afternoon as the Confederates attacked in a disjointed manner, first with the division of Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill, then Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, suffering heavy casualties. The arrival of Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson's command was delayed, preventing the full concentration of Confederate force before Porter received some reinforcements from the VI Corps.At dusk, the Confederates finally mounted a coordinated assault that broke Porter's line and drove his men back toward the Chickahominy River. The Federals retreated across the river during the night. The Confederates were too disorganized to pursue the main Union force. Gaines's Mill saved Richmond for the Confederacy in 1862; the tactical defeat there convinced Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan to abandon his advance on Richmond and begin a retreat to the James River. The battle occurred in almost the same location as the 1864 Battle of Cold Harbor and had a similar number of total casualties.