Civil War - Dripping Springs ISD
... the Confederacy and one for the Union. Officers on both sides—including Confederate general Robert E. Lee, and Union generals George McClellan and William Tecumseh Sherman— had attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, never dreaming that they would one day command forces against ea ...
... the Confederacy and one for the Union. Officers on both sides—including Confederate general Robert E. Lee, and Union generals George McClellan and William Tecumseh Sherman— had attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, never dreaming that they would one day command forces against ea ...
CVHRI Newsletter.wps
... soldiers confiscated as much Union equipment as possible and wherever practical. This included the stripping not only of Union dead but those of Union wounded as well. Overcoats and shoes were particularly prized since it was winter, but undergarments were taken as well. Even Confederate casualties ...
... soldiers confiscated as much Union equipment as possible and wherever practical. This included the stripping not only of Union dead but those of Union wounded as well. Overcoats and shoes were particularly prized since it was winter, but undergarments were taken as well. Even Confederate casualties ...
Actions Impending - Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable
... Sarah Blythe and her house would become a field hospital after the cavalry fight in Fairfield. On July 3, 1863 Major Samuel Starr commanding the 6th US Cavalry will ride into Fairfield. He had received reports of a Confederate wagon train in the area and he was hoping to capture it. Just north of to ...
... Sarah Blythe and her house would become a field hospital after the cavalry fight in Fairfield. On July 3, 1863 Major Samuel Starr commanding the 6th US Cavalry will ride into Fairfield. He had received reports of a Confederate wagon train in the area and he was hoping to capture it. Just north of to ...
Battle of Hanover - Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce
... Battle of Hanover One of the reasons why General Robert E. Lee failed to gain victory at Gettysburg might have been the unplanned encounter at Hanover. Lee was depending on Major General J.E.B. Stuart to supply him with information about the position of General George G. Meade’s Union army. Meanwhil ...
... Battle of Hanover One of the reasons why General Robert E. Lee failed to gain victory at Gettysburg might have been the unplanned encounter at Hanover. Lee was depending on Major General J.E.B. Stuart to supply him with information about the position of General George G. Meade’s Union army. Meanwhil ...
Clarke County Civil War Driving Tour
... deployed behind a stone wall. When the Confederates got within 200 yards, the Federals volleyed and then charged, breaking the rebel attack and sending them retreating back to the heights above you. As darkness fell, the sides traded fire for two more hours, but eventually the fighting petered out. ...
... deployed behind a stone wall. When the Confederates got within 200 yards, the Federals volleyed and then charged, breaking the rebel attack and sending them retreating back to the heights above you. As darkness fell, the sides traded fire for two more hours, but eventually the fighting petered out. ...
Civil War Strategy 1861-1865 Essay
... commanders worried about the growing Union threat.xviii Strategically, the defense held sway. The Union war machine finally began to uncoil itself on February 2, 1862, when Major General Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote moved to take Fort Henry, then Fort Donelson, shattering the Co ...
... commanders worried about the growing Union threat.xviii Strategically, the defense held sway. The Union war machine finally began to uncoil itself on February 2, 1862, when Major General Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote moved to take Fort Henry, then Fort Donelson, shattering the Co ...
Last Full Measure of Devotion
... both slave and free. As historian Drew Gilpin Faust has demonstrated, mid-nineteenth century Americans, steeped in Christian worldviews, believed that a person should have a “good death,” one witnessed by family members, recorded in a narrative of peaceful departure and Christian acceptance, perhaps ...
... both slave and free. As historian Drew Gilpin Faust has demonstrated, mid-nineteenth century Americans, steeped in Christian worldviews, believed that a person should have a “good death,” one witnessed by family members, recorded in a narrative of peaceful departure and Christian acceptance, perhaps ...
Last Full Measure of Devotion - The Gilder Lehrman Institute of
... both slave and free. As historian Drew Gilpin Faust has demonstrated, mid-nineteenth century Americans, steeped in Christian worldviews, believed that a person should have a “good death,” one witnessed by family members, recorded in a narrative of peaceful departure and Christian acceptance, perhaps ...
... both slave and free. As historian Drew Gilpin Faust has demonstrated, mid-nineteenth century Americans, steeped in Christian worldviews, believed that a person should have a “good death,” one witnessed by family members, recorded in a narrative of peaceful departure and Christian acceptance, perhaps ...
USA WORLD
... about three months after Fort Sumter fell. An army of 30,000 inexperienced Union soldiers on its way toward the Confederate capital at Richmond, only 100 miles from Washington, D.C., came upon an equally inexperienced Confederate army encamped near the little creek of Bull Run, just 25 miles from th ...
... about three months after Fort Sumter fell. An army of 30,000 inexperienced Union soldiers on its way toward the Confederate capital at Richmond, only 100 miles from Washington, D.C., came upon an equally inexperienced Confederate army encamped near the little creek of Bull Run, just 25 miles from th ...
Civil War Leaders - Doral Academy Preparatory
... “ I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my home.” Then offered services to the Confederacy. ...
... “ I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my home.” Then offered services to the Confederacy. ...
NC State Brochure cover-side
... of the national capitals—Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia—made the Eastern Seaboard a center of military activity. Union blood was first shed in the Baltimore Riots of April 19, 1861, and some of the last Confederate casualties of the war fell in North Carolina four years later. The tides of ...
... of the national capitals—Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia—made the Eastern Seaboard a center of military activity. Union blood was first shed in the Baltimore Riots of April 19, 1861, and some of the last Confederate casualties of the war fell in North Carolina four years later. The tides of ...
1864–1865: Bringing the War to an End
... American liberty, with which Abraham Lincoln has discharged, under circumstances of unparalleled difficulty, the great duties and responsibilities of the presidential office; that we approve and indorse, as demanded by the emergency and essential to the preservation of the nation, and as within the ...
... American liberty, with which Abraham Lincoln has discharged, under circumstances of unparalleled difficulty, the great duties and responsibilities of the presidential office; that we approve and indorse, as demanded by the emergency and essential to the preservation of the nation, and as within the ...
Chapter 21 Civil War
... – Victory at Gettysburg belonged to Lincoln • Refused to let peace mission pass though Union lines • From then on, Southern cause doomed, yet Dixie fought for two more years • In fall of 1863, while graves still fresh, Lincoln journeyed to Gettysburg to dedicate cemetery – Following a two-hour speec ...
... – Victory at Gettysburg belonged to Lincoln • Refused to let peace mission pass though Union lines • From then on, Southern cause doomed, yet Dixie fought for two more years • In fall of 1863, while graves still fresh, Lincoln journeyed to Gettysburg to dedicate cemetery – Following a two-hour speec ...
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... – Victory at Gettysburg belonged to Lincoln • Refused to let peace mission pass though Union lines • From then on, Southern cause doomed, yet Dixie fought for two more years • In fall of 1863, while graves still fresh, Lincoln journeyed to Gettysburg to dedicate cemetery – Following a two-hour speec ...
... – Victory at Gettysburg belonged to Lincoln • Refused to let peace mission pass though Union lines • From then on, Southern cause doomed, yet Dixie fought for two more years • In fall of 1863, while graves still fresh, Lincoln journeyed to Gettysburg to dedicate cemetery – Following a two-hour speec ...
Bull Run - Central Magnet School
... – Victory at Gettysburg belonged to Lincoln • Refused to let peace mission pass though Union lines • From then on, Southern cause doomed, yet Dixie fought for two more years • In fall of 1863, while graves still fresh, Lincoln journeyed to Gettysburg to dedicate cemetery – Following a two-hour speec ...
... – Victory at Gettysburg belonged to Lincoln • Refused to let peace mission pass though Union lines • From then on, Southern cause doomed, yet Dixie fought for two more years • In fall of 1863, while graves still fresh, Lincoln journeyed to Gettysburg to dedicate cemetery – Following a two-hour speec ...
1864-1865: Bringing the War to an End
... American liberty, with which Abraham Lincoln has discharged, under circumstances of unparalleled difficulty, the great duties and responsibilities of the presidential office; that we approve and indorse, as demanded by the emergency and essential to the preservation of the nation, and as within the ...
... American liberty, with which Abraham Lincoln has discharged, under circumstances of unparalleled difficulty, the great duties and responsibilities of the presidential office; that we approve and indorse, as demanded by the emergency and essential to the preservation of the nation, and as within the ...
The Civil War
... After the disaster at Bull Run, President Lincoln named General George McClellan to build and command a new army. While McClellan was involved with this task, Union forces in the west invaded the Confederacy. The states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee held the key to control of th ...
... After the disaster at Bull Run, President Lincoln named General George McClellan to build and command a new army. While McClellan was involved with this task, Union forces in the west invaded the Confederacy. The states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee held the key to control of th ...
Saline County, Missouri, and the Civil War
... found hidden in warehouses after exchanging shots with guerillas on the Howard County side of the river. The Arrow Rock post office was closed for several months and for the rest of the war, town government was virtually suspended. The collapse of civil government was a scene repeated throughout th ...
... found hidden in warehouses after exchanging shots with guerillas on the Howard County side of the river. The Arrow Rock post office was closed for several months and for the rest of the war, town government was virtually suspended. The collapse of civil government was a scene repeated throughout th ...
Vicksburg
... The second assault, 22 May, was a disaster for Union forces, showed the strength of the miles of Confederate works arching east around the city, and convinced Grant that Pemberton could only be defeated in a protracted siege. The siege of Vicksburg began with the repulse of the 22 May assault and la ...
... The second assault, 22 May, was a disaster for Union forces, showed the strength of the miles of Confederate works arching east around the city, and convinced Grant that Pemberton could only be defeated in a protracted siege. The siege of Vicksburg began with the repulse of the 22 May assault and la ...
Chronology of the Civil War in Prince William County
... army arrived at Centreville without meeting any opposition. General Daniel Tyler, commanding McDowell’s First Division, was directed to “Observe well the roads to Bull Run and to Warrenton; Do not bring on an engagement, but keep up the impression that we are moving on Manassas.” Acting on these ord ...
... army arrived at Centreville without meeting any opposition. General Daniel Tyler, commanding McDowell’s First Division, was directed to “Observe well the roads to Bull Run and to Warrenton; Do not bring on an engagement, but keep up the impression that we are moving on Manassas.” Acting on these ord ...
WHO WAS THE CIVIL WAR`S PREMIER CAVALRY COMMANDER?
... The first of the Stuarts landed in America in 1726, his forebears fighting in the Revolutionary war and his father in the War of 1812. His father was a representative in the Virginia Legislature who married Elizabeth Letcher Pannill, a descendant of the distinguished Letcher family; actually Letcher ...
... The first of the Stuarts landed in America in 1726, his forebears fighting in the Revolutionary war and his father in the War of 1812. His father was a representative in the Virginia Legislature who married Elizabeth Letcher Pannill, a descendant of the distinguished Letcher family; actually Letcher ...
TRANSCRIPT 7/04/12 Reflections on the Battle of Gettysburg and the Role of... Soldiers
... soldier broke through that line but then there were more infantry to the north and soon these attacking soldiers were under artillery fire from up around the slider farm and over near Emmetsburg road. Soon the west Virginians and Pennsylvanians were in retreat and they rolled all the way back year a ...
... soldier broke through that line but then there were more infantry to the north and soon these attacking soldiers were under artillery fire from up around the slider farm and over near Emmetsburg road. Soon the west Virginians and Pennsylvanians were in retreat and they rolled all the way back year a ...
The Effects of Logistical Factors On The Union Pursuit of the
... outline the effect that logistical support (or lack thereof) had on the decisions of Union leadership and on the ability of the army to carry out the decisions made by those same leaders during the ...
... outline the effect that logistical support (or lack thereof) had on the decisions of Union leadership and on the ability of the army to carry out the decisions made by those same leaders during the ...
Arkansas Military History Journal
... Ibid., 384,385,387,389; DeBlack, 89; Ezra J Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commander (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 474. ...
... Ibid., 384,385,387,389; DeBlack, 89; Ezra J Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commander (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 474. ...
Chapter 16: The Civil War
... Union troops crush the Rebels, they looked forward to a quick victory. The Confederate soldiers also expected a quick victory. They “carried dress suits with them, and any quantity of fine linen. Every soldier, nearly, had a servant with him, and a whole lot of spoons and forks, so as to live comfor ...
... Union troops crush the Rebels, they looked forward to a quick victory. The Confederate soldiers also expected a quick victory. They “carried dress suits with them, and any quantity of fine linen. Every soldier, nearly, had a servant with him, and a whole lot of spoons and forks, so as to live comfor ...
Battle of Harpers Ferry
The Battle of Harpers Ferry was fought September 12–15, 1862, as part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War. As Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army invaded Maryland, a portion of his army under Maj. Gen. Thomas J. ""Stonewall"" Jackson surrounded, bombarded, and captured the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), a major victory at relatively minor cost.As Lee's Army of Northern Virginia advanced down the Shenandoah Valley into Maryland, he planned to capture the garrison at Harpers Ferry to secure his line of supply back to Virginia. Although he was being pursued at a leisurely pace by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, outnumbering him more than two to one, Lee chose the risky strategy of dividing his army and sent one portion to converge and attack Harpers Ferry from three directions. Col. Dixon S. Miles, Union commander at Harpers Ferry, insisted on keeping most of the troops near the town instead of taking up commanding positions on the surrounding heights. The slim defenses of the most important position, Maryland Heights, first encountered the approaching Confederate on September 12, but only brief skirmishing ensued. Strong attacks by two Confederate brigades on September 13 drove the Union troops from the heights.During the fighting on Maryland Heights, the other Confederate columns arrived and were astonished to see that critical positions to the west and south of town were not defended. Jackson methodically positioned his artillery around Harpers Ferry and ordered Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill to move down the west bank of the Shenandoah River in preparation for a flank attack on the Federal left the next morning. By the morning of September 15, Jackson had positioned nearly 50 guns on Maryland Heights and at the base of Loudoun Heights. He began a fierce artillery barrage from all sides and ordered an infantry assault. Miles realized that the situation was hopeless and agreed with his subordinates to raise the white flag of surrender. Before he could surrender personally, he was mortally wounded by an artillery shell and died the next day. After processing more than 12,000 Union prisoners, Jackson's men then rushed to Sharpsburg, Maryland, to rejoin Lee for the Battle of Antietam.