Veterans at Rest
... 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 surviving drummer from General Lee’s Army of Northern Virgini ...
... 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 surviving drummer from General Lee’s Army of Northern Virgini ...
Did Meade Begin a Counteroffensive after
... governed by committee rather than legitimate authority. It is hard to calculate the damage done to his image in these settings, because the pressures and impressions were held in check just beneath the surface. Slocum revealed a general friction several months later when he submitted a laundry list ...
... governed by committee rather than legitimate authority. It is hard to calculate the damage done to his image in these settings, because the pressures and impressions were held in check just beneath the surface. Slocum revealed a general friction several months later when he submitted a laundry list ...
The Real War Never Got in the Books: How Veterans
... authenticity and purpose. Many of these voices were those of black men and women still facing unequal treatment both legally and socially. And while many of these freedmen were also veterans, their writings (for example their war reminiscences) never reached the same level of popularity, circulation ...
... authenticity and purpose. Many of these voices were those of black men and women still facing unequal treatment both legally and socially. And while many of these freedmen were also veterans, their writings (for example their war reminiscences) never reached the same level of popularity, circulation ...
Read Act 1… - Loch Willow
... It was mid June, and the Union Army had yet a new commander. Lincoln had appointed George Meade as his new chief. On June 20th, the State of West Virginia was ratified by the United States Congress. Now Virginia was divided. A.P. Hill’s Corps approached Gettysburg, PA., on the morning of June 1st, 1 ...
... It was mid June, and the Union Army had yet a new commander. Lincoln had appointed George Meade as his new chief. On June 20th, the State of West Virginia was ratified by the United States Congress. Now Virginia was divided. A.P. Hill’s Corps approached Gettysburg, PA., on the morning of June 1st, 1 ...
Confederate Wooden Gunboat Construction
... programs simultaneously, logistical problems experienced by both programs will be brought into focus. After describing the Confederate States Navy’s wooden gunboat program, two case studies will be detailed. One chapter will focus on the CSS Peedee; the other will center on wooden gunboat constructi ...
... programs simultaneously, logistical problems experienced by both programs will be brought into focus. After describing the Confederate States Navy’s wooden gunboat program, two case studies will be detailed. One chapter will focus on the CSS Peedee; the other will center on wooden gunboat constructi ...
the First Battle of Bull Run and its Impact on Connecticut
... W.A. Croffut and John M. Morris and Connecticut for the Union: the Role of the State in the Civil War (1965) by John Niven. Both works look at Connecticut’s participation militarily, on the home front, and politically throughout the war’s entirety. Because both sources cover such a wide period of t ...
... W.A. Croffut and John M. Morris and Connecticut for the Union: the Role of the State in the Civil War (1965) by John Niven. Both works look at Connecticut’s participation militarily, on the home front, and politically throughout the war’s entirety. Because both sources cover such a wide period of t ...
Battle 1 Questions - Madison Public Schools
... Union – Washington D.C. CSA – Richmond, Virginia ...
... Union – Washington D.C. CSA – Richmond, Virginia ...
On the Civil War`s homefront: Bennington in the Civil War
... problems. The commanding general of the Union Army was 74-four-year-old Winfield Scott. Although he was still mentally able to command, he had an assortment of medical problems. The Union army was also kept ill-prepared because politically it would have appeared provocative to build up the army in a ...
... problems. The commanding general of the Union Army was 74-four-year-old Winfield Scott. Although he was still mentally able to command, he had an assortment of medical problems. The Union army was also kept ill-prepared because politically it would have appeared provocative to build up the army in a ...
George E. Pickett - Essential Civil War Curriculum
... important campaigns of Second Manassas and Antietam, returning to the army in the fall of 1862. He was promptly (and perhaps surprisingly) promoted to major general, responsible for 15,000 hard-worn Confederate soldiers. Meantime, Pickett had begun a romance with a young woman from Suffolk, VA, Sall ...
... important campaigns of Second Manassas and Antietam, returning to the army in the fall of 1862. He was promptly (and perhaps surprisingly) promoted to major general, responsible for 15,000 hard-worn Confederate soldiers. Meantime, Pickett had begun a romance with a young woman from Suffolk, VA, Sall ...
Just Before The Battle, Mother
... Yes we’ll rally round the flag, boys, we’ll rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom, We will rally from the hillside, we’ll gather from the plain, Shouting the battle cry of freedom! The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah! Down with the traitor, up with the star; While we rally round t ...
... Yes we’ll rally round the flag, boys, we’ll rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom, We will rally from the hillside, we’ll gather from the plain, Shouting the battle cry of freedom! The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah! Down with the traitor, up with the star; While we rally round t ...
Untitled - TCU Digital Repository
... The campaign for Vicksburg, Mississippi, determined the survival of the Confederacy. Successful secession depended on Confederate control of the Mississippi River, the vast waterway historian Terrence J. Winschel acknowledged as “the single most important economic feature of the continent, the very ...
... The campaign for Vicksburg, Mississippi, determined the survival of the Confederacy. Successful secession depended on Confederate control of the Mississippi River, the vast waterway historian Terrence J. Winschel acknowledged as “the single most important economic feature of the continent, the very ...
Title: The American Civil War Review Scavenger Hunt Use the
... 1. Who was the president of the Confederate States of America? ____________________ http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/Jefferson_Davis_Vice_Stephens.htm 2. _____________________ became the first president of the American Red Cross. http://www.redcross.org/museum/briefarc.html 3. President Ab ...
... 1. Who was the president of the Confederate States of America? ____________________ http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/Jefferson_Davis_Vice_Stephens.htm 2. _____________________ became the first president of the American Red Cross. http://www.redcross.org/museum/briefarc.html 3. President Ab ...
The Timeline of DOOM!!!! Use at own peril. May induce odd
... 1812 February 8 The town of New Madrid, Missouri is nearly destroyed by one of the worst earthquakes to hit North America, second only to the Great Quake of ’68. RoB pg. 21 1812 February 8 The Lady of New Orleans is the first riverboat to reach the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Loca ...
... 1812 February 8 The town of New Madrid, Missouri is nearly destroyed by one of the worst earthquakes to hit North America, second only to the Great Quake of ’68. RoB pg. 21 1812 February 8 The Lady of New Orleans is the first riverboat to reach the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Loca ...
Hostile Forces: The Battle of Hampton Roads and Nineteenth... America's Industrial Nightmare
... positioned themselves near each other - the Monitor was by virtue of her small size more maneuverable than the Virginia, but neither was particularly quick - and fired their guns for four hours. A series of highly confused events led to the end of the conflict - with Captain John Worden of the Monit ...
... positioned themselves near each other - the Monitor was by virtue of her small size more maneuverable than the Virginia, but neither was particularly quick - and fired their guns for four hours. A series of highly confused events led to the end of the conflict - with Captain John Worden of the Monit ...
naylonMaurice - Georgetown University
... commanded the Union's Army of the Potomac (AoP) two years apart, they both faced the same strategic-level advantages and constraints; each commander had access to the same national economic base, dealt with the same President, and utilized the same strategic-level logistics. Conversely, comparing t ...
... commanded the Union's Army of the Potomac (AoP) two years apart, they both faced the same strategic-level advantages and constraints; each commander had access to the same national economic base, dealt with the same President, and utilized the same strategic-level logistics. Conversely, comparing t ...
Knud Otterson - Battle of Nashville Preservation Society
... river city of Vicksburg and was wounded at nearby Richmond, Louisiana. In 2012 we visited the Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee /Corinth, Mississippi area where Knud saw his first action in the Army of the Mississippi as it maneuvered to capture the railroad town of Corinth, Mississippi. We also obtained ...
... river city of Vicksburg and was wounded at nearby Richmond, Louisiana. In 2012 we visited the Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee /Corinth, Mississippi area where Knud saw his first action in the Army of the Mississippi as it maneuvered to capture the railroad town of Corinth, Mississippi. We also obtained ...
THE BATTLE OF SAILOR`S CREEK: A STUDY IN LEADERSHIP A
... desperate and decisive battle of the Civil War, has been all but forgotten in American history, overshadowed by the devastation in Richmond and Petersburg and even more so by Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, three days later. In his memoirs, General Philip H. Sheridan, the rankin ...
... desperate and decisive battle of the Civil War, has been all but forgotten in American history, overshadowed by the devastation in Richmond and Petersburg and even more so by Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, three days later. In his memoirs, General Philip H. Sheridan, the rankin ...
THE MANY BATTLES OF GLORIETA PASS: STRUGGLES FOR THE
... feelings which were feared owing to the seizure of New Mexico by United States forces in 1846. These troops were not only poorly trained and widely distrusted, they were at an extreme disadvantage when it came to the basics of communicating with each other. The two forces, Union regulars and New Mex ...
... feelings which were feared owing to the seizure of New Mexico by United States forces in 1846. These troops were not only poorly trained and widely distrusted, they were at an extreme disadvantage when it came to the basics of communicating with each other. The two forces, Union regulars and New Mex ...
The Civil War in the United States
... of newspaper articles and extracts from a voluminous correspondence, clearly shows the progressive and revolutionary character of the American conflict. The articles appeared originally in 1861 and 1862 in the New York Daily Tribune and the Vienna Presse. Though essentially the work of Marx, they we ...
... of newspaper articles and extracts from a voluminous correspondence, clearly shows the progressive and revolutionary character of the American conflict. The articles appeared originally in 1861 and 1862 in the New York Daily Tribune and the Vienna Presse. Though essentially the work of Marx, they we ...
Understanding Typhoid in the American Civil War: A Study of
... Medical practitioners in the United States were unprepared, underqualified, understaffed, and undersupplied in their practice of medicine on soldiers. Medical students before the American Civil War had little training in the field of medicine. These students trained for two years and received little ...
... Medical practitioners in the United States were unprepared, underqualified, understaffed, and undersupplied in their practice of medicine on soldiers. Medical students before the American Civil War had little training in the field of medicine. These students trained for two years and received little ...
Mosby`s Horse Artillery - Historic Fairfax City, Inc.
... According to the diary of Pvt. James J. Williamson of Mosby’s command, the two guns were a six-pound howitzer and a three-inch ordnance rifle. While small by artillery standards, they should have been capable of destroying and capturing the stockade had they been accompanied by suitable projectiles ...
... According to the diary of Pvt. James J. Williamson of Mosby’s command, the two guns were a six-pound howitzer and a three-inch ordnance rifle. While small by artillery standards, they should have been capable of destroying and capturing the stockade had they been accompanied by suitable projectiles ...
African Americans and Typhoid in the American Civil War
... typhoid during the war, owed their survival to simple luck. It was difficult to avoid the impacts of diseases like typhoid in camps whose poor sanitization and bad hygiene were breeding grounds for disease, infection, and death. One key weakness of this early period of the war was due to the inadequ ...
... typhoid during the war, owed their survival to simple luck. It was difficult to avoid the impacts of diseases like typhoid in camps whose poor sanitization and bad hygiene were breeding grounds for disease, infection, and death. One key weakness of this early period of the war was due to the inadequ ...
Knud Otterson - Battle of Nashville Preservation Society
... Adjusting for inflation, an 1864 dollar equals about $14 in 2012. At that rate $16 equals about $224, $200 equals $2,800 and $400 equals $5,600. Knud’s pay would have been substantial for the time, especially considering that he probably had nothing when he left Norway. Even though Knud may have had ...
... Adjusting for inflation, an 1864 dollar equals about $14 in 2012. At that rate $16 equals about $224, $200 equals $2,800 and $400 equals $5,600. Knud’s pay would have been substantial for the time, especially considering that he probably had nothing when he left Norway. Even though Knud may have had ...
the-civil-war-unit-slide-show
... • The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter. • The Union forces inside Fort Sumter were already low on ammunition and food, so they surrendered the next day. Gettysburg • The Battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 1-3, 1863, was the turning point of the ...
... • The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter. • The Union forces inside Fort Sumter were already low on ammunition and food, so they surrendered the next day. Gettysburg • The Battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 1-3, 1863, was the turning point of the ...
America`s Last Civil War Veterans and Participants
... self-sufficient and independent. This concept remains a great part of the American dream. The image of being in a quiet, orderly world where people could tranquilly rock on the porch at the end of a healthy workday or on Sunday, while enjoying a natural view breathing fresh air, still appeals. It wa ...
... self-sufficient and independent. This concept remains a great part of the American dream. The image of being in a quiet, orderly world where people could tranquilly rock on the porch at the end of a healthy workday or on Sunday, while enjoying a natural view breathing fresh air, still appeals. It wa ...
First Battle of Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces), was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas, not far from the city of Washington, D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War. The Union's forces were slow in positioning themselves, allowing Confederate reinforcements time to arrive by rail. Each side had about 18,000 poorly trained and poorly led troops in their first battle. It was a Confederate victory followed by a disorganized retreat of the Union forces.Just months after the start of the war at Fort Sumter, the Northern public clamored for a march against the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, which they expected to bring an early end to the rebellion. Yielding to political pressure, Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell led his unseasoned Union Army across Bull Run against the equally inexperienced Confederate Army of Brig. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard camped near Manassas Junction. McDowell's ambitious plan for a surprise flank attack on the Confederate left was poorly executed by his officers and men; nevertheless, the Confederates, who had been planning to attack the Union left flank, found themselves at an initial disadvantage.Confederate reinforcements under Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston arrived from the Shenandoah Valley by railroad and the course of the battle quickly changed. A brigade of Virginians under the relatively unknown brigadier general from the Virginia Military Institute, Thomas J. Jackson, stood their ground and Jackson received his famous nickname, ""Stonewall Jackson"". The Confederates launched a strong counterattack, and as the Union troops began withdrawing under fire, many panicked and the retreat turned into a rout. McDowell's men frantically ran without order in the direction of Washington, D.C. Both armies were sobered by the fierce fighting and many casualties, and realized the war was going to be much longer and bloodier than either had anticipated.