Best Little Stories from the Civil War, 2E
... Best Little Stories, we say? Exactly what does that mean? Well, as I wrote in an earlier edition of this, the first of our three Best Little Stories Civil War books, I once was a newspaperman. I always looked for the good, i.e., the best, story. Be it cheerful, light and frothy, or hard-hitting, sad ...
... Best Little Stories, we say? Exactly what does that mean? Well, as I wrote in an earlier edition of this, the first of our three Best Little Stories Civil War books, I once was a newspaperman. I always looked for the good, i.e., the best, story. Be it cheerful, light and frothy, or hard-hitting, sad ...
Fort Pulaski
... invading the North for a second time, had hoped that a victory would persuade Northern politicians to seek a peace agreement. Though by the end of the first day of fighting things looked promising for the South, the tide of battle quickly turned in favor of the North. On the third day of fighting Le ...
... invading the North for a second time, had hoped that a victory would persuade Northern politicians to seek a peace agreement. Though by the end of the first day of fighting things looked promising for the South, the tide of battle quickly turned in favor of the North. On the third day of fighting Le ...
KentucKy`s civil War Heritage guide
... blacks into the Union Army, but initially the policy was rejected. One Kentucky Union general told the president that African-American recruitment “will revolutionize the state and do infinite and inconceivable harm.” President Lincoln realized that the mere sight of African-Americans in uniform was ...
... blacks into the Union Army, but initially the policy was rejected. One Kentucky Union general told the president that African-American recruitment “will revolutionize the state and do infinite and inconceivable harm.” President Lincoln realized that the mere sight of African-Americans in uniform was ...
“Union and Confederate Soldiers` Stationery: Their Designs and
... of an individual soldier engaged in those very same battles even as they reassure friends and family of his own survival, albeit his overall health was, as he expressed it, “very poor.” Battle scene and some other designs served a “news” function conveying information to friends and family back ...
... of an individual soldier engaged in those very same battles even as they reassure friends and family of his own survival, albeit his overall health was, as he expressed it, “very poor.” Battle scene and some other designs served a “news” function conveying information to friends and family back ...
"... Willing Never to Go in Another Fight": The Civil War
... Rufus King wrote, "We had a dreadful march of it over the worst road I ever saw .. ." The men found some relief watching each other slide and fall in the mud. But the pace was grueling and many fell out of the ranks from exhaustion. Rufus King and his comrades "were greatly disappointed on our arriv ...
... Rufus King wrote, "We had a dreadful march of it over the worst road I ever saw .. ." The men found some relief watching each other slide and fall in the mud. But the pace was grueling and many fell out of the ranks from exhaustion. Rufus King and his comrades "were greatly disappointed on our arriv ...
The Union Army Had Something to Do With It
... On page 200 of his Military Memoirs of a Confederate he makes the following very interesting statement regarding the stand of a small portion of the Union Army of the Potomac that had a brief but intense struggle with elements of Stonewall Jackson's wing on August 28, 1862, on the eve of the Second ...
... On page 200 of his Military Memoirs of a Confederate he makes the following very interesting statement regarding the stand of a small portion of the Union Army of the Potomac that had a brief but intense struggle with elements of Stonewall Jackson's wing on August 28, 1862, on the eve of the Second ...
America at Mid-19th Century: Abolition, Civil War, Emancipation
... thousands saw them as a way to help resolve their own feelings about a nation divided into a cultural landscape in which there was no right or wrong. Did the Constitution prevail on such a contentious issue as slavery, or did the “better angels of our nature” prevail? In 2011 the United States recog ...
... thousands saw them as a way to help resolve their own feelings about a nation divided into a cultural landscape in which there was no right or wrong. Did the Constitution prevail on such a contentious issue as slavery, or did the “better angels of our nature” prevail? In 2011 the United States recog ...
Civil War And Reconstruction
... to turn the tide as Confederates surrounded the Union troops and captured, killed, or wounded most. ...
... to turn the tide as Confederates surrounded the Union troops and captured, killed, or wounded most. ...
Battlefield Field Trips
... Confederate soldier. The students should pretend that they are real Civil War soldiers. They can use information from what they just read and from their imagination to tell the story. When everyone is done, ask for two volunteers to tell their stories in front of the class. Explain to your students ...
... Confederate soldier. The students should pretend that they are real Civil War soldiers. They can use information from what they just read and from their imagination to tell the story. When everyone is done, ask for two volunteers to tell their stories in front of the class. Explain to your students ...
January 2011
... regiment soon became an efficient fighting force. In December, he was given command of two other regiments, the 33rd and the 37th. At Goldsboro, Leventhorpe relinquished command of the 34th and at Camp Mangum, he joined the 11th North Carolina, where he was elected colonel. Fast forward to 1863. On ...
... regiment soon became an efficient fighting force. In December, he was given command of two other regiments, the 33rd and the 37th. At Goldsboro, Leventhorpe relinquished command of the 34th and at Camp Mangum, he joined the 11th North Carolina, where he was elected colonel. Fast forward to 1863. On ...
reminiscences of the civil war
... Confederate victories up to the winter of 1863—Southern confidence in ultimate independence—Progress of Union armies in the West—Fight for the control of the Mississippi—General Butler in possession of New Orleans—The new era in naval construction—Significance of the battle of the Monitor and Merrim ...
... Confederate victories up to the winter of 1863—Southern confidence in ultimate independence—Progress of Union armies in the West—Fight for the control of the Mississippi—General Butler in possession of New Orleans—The new era in naval construction—Significance of the battle of the Monitor and Merrim ...
Renewed Vigor: How the Confederate retaliatory burning
... attack the enemy’s industries and centers of population inaccessible from their armies.17 Not until 1948 was the term first applied to the Civil War by John B. Walters’ article, “General William Tecumseh Sherman and Total War,” published in the Journal of Southern History.18 However, during this tim ...
... attack the enemy’s industries and centers of population inaccessible from their armies.17 Not until 1948 was the term first applied to the Civil War by John B. Walters’ article, “General William Tecumseh Sherman and Total War,” published in the Journal of Southern History.18 However, during this tim ...
Camp 1220 May 2014
... Lincoln did a 180 degree-turn on the rights of the states to freely govern or to secede when that right was actually exercised. The federal government ruined the union that they claim to have saved; as the union has NEVER looked, worked or functioned as it did before Lincoln saved it. It still remai ...
... Lincoln did a 180 degree-turn on the rights of the states to freely govern or to secede when that right was actually exercised. The federal government ruined the union that they claim to have saved; as the union has NEVER looked, worked or functioned as it did before Lincoln saved it. It still remai ...
LEQ: Of what Union general did President Lincoln
... to resign his army commission in 1854 because of alcoholism, Buckner loaned Grant the money to return home. The image on the left shows Ulysses S. Grant as a Brigadier General in 1861. It is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The image of Simon Bolivar Bucker was taken circa 1863. This image is courtesy ...
... to resign his army commission in 1854 because of alcoholism, Buckner loaned Grant the money to return home. The image on the left shows Ulysses S. Grant as a Brigadier General in 1861. It is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The image of Simon Bolivar Bucker was taken circa 1863. This image is courtesy ...
SNAKES LURKING IN THE GRASS - The Gilder Lehrman Institute of
... devastating blow at the Battle of Chancellorsville. 5 Chancellorsville was known as Lee’s perfect battle because of his risky decisions that led to a Confederate victory. Weeks later at the Battle of Vicksburg in June 1863, the siege was a prolonged Union effort for the troops fighting in Mississipp ...
... devastating blow at the Battle of Chancellorsville. 5 Chancellorsville was known as Lee’s perfect battle because of his risky decisions that led to a Confederate victory. Weeks later at the Battle of Vicksburg in June 1863, the siege was a prolonged Union effort for the troops fighting in Mississipp ...
Civil War - Visit Hampton
... and opened fire. For the next four hours the two ironclads dueled inconclusively until a shell hit the Monitor’s pilothouse seriously wounding the warship’s commander, Lt. John Worden. The two ironclads broke off action and the first battle between ironclad warships was over. Both sides claimed vict ...
... and opened fire. For the next four hours the two ironclads dueled inconclusively until a shell hit the Monitor’s pilothouse seriously wounding the warship’s commander, Lt. John Worden. The two ironclads broke off action and the first battle between ironclad warships was over. Both sides claimed vict ...
Civil War - Visit Hampton
... and opened fire. For the next four hours the two ironclads dueled inconclusively until a shell hit the Monitor’s pilothouse seriously wounding the warship’s commander, Lt. John Worden. The two ironclads broke off action and the first battle between ironclad warships was over. Both sides claimed vict ...
... and opened fire. For the next four hours the two ironclads dueled inconclusively until a shell hit the Monitor’s pilothouse seriously wounding the warship’s commander, Lt. John Worden. The two ironclads broke off action and the first battle between ironclad warships was over. Both sides claimed vict ...
American Civil War
... before the new administration took office on March 4, 1861, seven cotton states declared their secession and joined to form the Confederate States of America. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and the incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering ...
... before the new administration took office on March 4, 1861, seven cotton states declared their secession and joined to form the Confederate States of America. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and the incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering ...
Joshua L. Chamberlain
... Ames (1835–1933), commander of the Twentieth Maine. Over the next several weeks, Chamberlain quickly distinguished himself as a sharp young officer. Ames learned to trust his second-in-command, impressed by the former professor’s intelligence and desire to learn. In fact, Chamberlain seemed to spend ...
... Ames (1835–1933), commander of the Twentieth Maine. Over the next several weeks, Chamberlain quickly distinguished himself as a sharp young officer. Ames learned to trust his second-in-command, impressed by the former professor’s intelligence and desire to learn. In fact, Chamberlain seemed to spend ...
... could have been deemed a mass emigration with some 150,000 to 200,000 Irish, mainly young Catholic men, having arrived. Most, being rootless and single, would swiftly be absorbed into the American way of life with no separate ethnic group being established during this early period. The first big wav ...
The American Civil War`s Western Theater Part 01
... In other words, the Rebels had to give up everything. Confederate General Simon Bolivar Bucker (right) expected good terms from Grant. They were friends in the United States Army before the war. When Grant was told he had to resign his army commission in 1854 because of alcoholism, Buckner loaned Gr ...
... In other words, the Rebels had to give up everything. Confederate General Simon Bolivar Bucker (right) expected good terms from Grant. They were friends in the United States Army before the war. When Grant was told he had to resign his army commission in 1854 because of alcoholism, Buckner loaned Gr ...
McCLELLAN - National Paralegal College
... Republicans divided into Moderate and Radical wings As war progressed, Radical wing gained in power 1861 Charles Sumner was most prominent radical ...
... Republicans divided into Moderate and Radical wings As war progressed, Radical wing gained in power 1861 Charles Sumner was most prominent radical ...
Vermont in the Civil War
... the Sixth Corps west of Petersburg facing what was believed to be a weak point in the ...
... the Sixth Corps west of Petersburg facing what was believed to be a weak point in the ...
the berminghams of the irish brigade
... commanded by Captain James Haggerty and was known as 'Haggerty's Bullies.' The 69th first guarded the rail line between Annapolis and Washington and then moved to the Capital. The regiment constructed and garrisoned Fort Corcoran on the south bank of the Potomac. Then, as part of Colonel William T. ...
... commanded by Captain James Haggerty and was known as 'Haggerty's Bullies.' The 69th first guarded the rail line between Annapolis and Washington and then moved to the Capital. The regiment constructed and garrisoned Fort Corcoran on the south bank of the Potomac. Then, as part of Colonel William T. ...
Battle of Seven Pines
The Battle of Seven Pines, also known as the Battle of Fair Oaks or Fair Oaks Station, took place on May 31 and June 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive up the Virginia Peninsula by Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, in which the Army of the Potomac reached the outskirts of Richmond.On May 31, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston attempted to overwhelm two Federal corps that appeared isolated south of the Chickahominy River. The Confederate assaults, although not well coordinated, succeeded in driving back the IV Corps and inflicting heavy casualties. Reinforcements arrived, and both sides fed more and more troops into the action. Supported by the III Corps and Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick's division of Maj. Gen. Edwin V. Sumner's II Corps (which crossed the rain-swollen river on Grapevine Bridge), the Federal position was finally stabilized. Gen. Johnston was seriously wounded during the action, and command of the Confederate army devolved temporarily to Maj. Gen. G.W. Smith. On June 1, the Confederates renewed their assaults against the Federals, who had brought up more reinforcements, but made little headway. Both sides claimed victory.Although the battle was tactically inconclusive, it was the largest battle in the Eastern Theater up to that time (and second only to Shiloh in terms of casualties thus far, about 11,000 total) and marked the end of the Union offensive, leading to the Seven Days Battles and Union retreat in late June.