Chapter 9: The Civil War, 1861-1865
... reserves of cash, which they lent the government by purchasing bonds. Concern about the North’s ability to win the war caused many people to withdraw gold and silver from the banks. Without gold and silver, the banks could not buy government bonds, and without the gold and silver from the sale of bo ...
... reserves of cash, which they lent the government by purchasing bonds. Concern about the North’s ability to win the war caused many people to withdraw gold and silver from the banks. Without gold and silver, the banks could not buy government bonds, and without the gold and silver from the sale of bo ...
columbus: the gibraltar of the west
... Magoffin, like Governor Isham G. Harris of Tennessee, refused to honor Ihe call for troops. The Kentucky legislature endorsed the governor's stand by resolving " that this state and the citizens thereof should take no part in the civil war now waged , except as mediators and friends to the belligere ...
... Magoffin, like Governor Isham G. Harris of Tennessee, refused to honor Ihe call for troops. The Kentucky legislature endorsed the governor's stand by resolving " that this state and the citizens thereof should take no part in the civil war now waged , except as mediators and friends to the belligere ...
To Laugh in One Hand, and Cry in the Other - B
... men, and not enjoying special privileges, the Federal occupation presented them with their first formal opportunity to aid the Union cause. In July 1864, a new Union regiment named the 44th Colored Infantry moved its headquarters to Rome and immediately sent recruiters into the countryside. The resp ...
... men, and not enjoying special privileges, the Federal occupation presented them with their first formal opportunity to aid the Union cause. In July 1864, a new Union regiment named the 44th Colored Infantry moved its headquarters to Rome and immediately sent recruiters into the countryside. The resp ...
slide into war short
... “Attempting to conquer the seceded states will entail a 2-3 year war that will require a massive army, incur tremendous loss of life on both sides and cost at least a quarter-billion dollars. And the result will be 15 devastated provinces not to be brought into harmony with their conquerors but to ...
... “Attempting to conquer the seceded states will entail a 2-3 year war that will require a massive army, incur tremendous loss of life on both sides and cost at least a quarter-billion dollars. And the result will be 15 devastated provinces not to be brought into harmony with their conquerors but to ...
History in the Making
... Democrats, who joined the Republican Party in the 1850s, looked to fight to preserve the Union, not compromise with the South. Diehard abolitionists also wanted to avoid compromise because they thought secession would quicken the move toward emancipation.3 As the debates raged, southerners and north ...
... Democrats, who joined the Republican Party in the 1850s, looked to fight to preserve the Union, not compromise with the South. Diehard abolitionists also wanted to avoid compromise because they thought secession would quicken the move toward emancipation.3 As the debates raged, southerners and north ...
Chapter 15 Powerpoint
... Army (cont.) When black soldiers were captured by the South, they were not treated as POW’s. They were sent back to their states to be re-enslaved or executed ...
... Army (cont.) When black soldiers were captured by the South, they were not treated as POW’s. They were sent back to their states to be re-enslaved or executed ...
A Tale of Two Monuments
... Congressman serving the 1st. District (that included Hilton Head) but as a Jacksonian and Unionist he was at odds with most of his constituents who sided with John C. Calhoun during the Crisis as did the eight other SC Congressmen. The Nullification Crisis has been described as the prelude to the Ci ...
... Congressman serving the 1st. District (that included Hilton Head) but as a Jacksonian and Unionist he was at odds with most of his constituents who sided with John C. Calhoun during the Crisis as did the eight other SC Congressmen. The Nullification Crisis has been described as the prelude to the Ci ...
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 ...
Rocky Mountain Civil War Round Table 2013 Study Group The
... War on the Mississippi: Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign (Time-Life Civil War series) – Jerry Korn Ninety-Eight Days: A Geographer’s View of the Civil War – Warren E. Grabau The Campaign for Vicksburg (very expensive three-volume set): Volume I, Vicksburg Is the Key; Volume II, Grant Strikes a Fatal Blow; ...
... War on the Mississippi: Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign (Time-Life Civil War series) – Jerry Korn Ninety-Eight Days: A Geographer’s View of the Civil War – Warren E. Grabau The Campaign for Vicksburg (very expensive three-volume set): Volume I, Vicksburg Is the Key; Volume II, Grant Strikes a Fatal Blow; ...
Political Cartoon Analysis
... Confederate president Jefferson Davis, dressed in a hoopskirt or crinoline, hangs from a "Sour Apple Tree" at left, a Bowie knife in one hand and a torn flag in the other. (For Davis's costume, see "The Chas-ed "Old Lady" of the C.S.A.," no. 1865-11; for the "sour apple tree," see "John Brown Exhibi ...
... Confederate president Jefferson Davis, dressed in a hoopskirt or crinoline, hangs from a "Sour Apple Tree" at left, a Bowie knife in one hand and a torn flag in the other. (For Davis's costume, see "The Chas-ed "Old Lady" of the C.S.A.," no. 1865-11; for the "sour apple tree," see "John Brown Exhibi ...
American Civil War - Yesterday`s Muse Books
... of staff under their command, plus a bibliography and a massive index. Near fine - edges lightly foxed. ...
... of staff under their command, plus a bibliography and a massive index. Near fine - edges lightly foxed. ...
Antietam: A Failure To Achieve Victory
... would be better served reinforcing the Army of the Potomac, especially since he considered Harper's Ferry to be of no great importance and to be indefensible. 10 Lee, however, determined that the position at Harper's Ferry, if it could be gained, would benefit the Confederate cause. Lee was surprise ...
... would be better served reinforcing the Army of the Potomac, especially since he considered Harper's Ferry to be of no great importance and to be indefensible. 10 Lee, however, determined that the position at Harper's Ferry, if it could be gained, would benefit the Confederate cause. Lee was surprise ...
Union College Connections to the Civil War Era A Glossary of
... participated in major Civil War battles such as First and Second Bull Run, the Peninsular Campaign, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Sherman’s March to the Sea. The only Union College faculty member ever to be killed in war as well as the son of another faculty member were among the Federa ...
... participated in major Civil War battles such as First and Second Bull Run, the Peninsular Campaign, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Sherman’s March to the Sea. The only Union College faculty member ever to be killed in war as well as the son of another faculty member were among the Federa ...
Chapter 13: The Civil War
... were young. The average recruit was 25 years old, but about 40 percent were 21 or younger. Ted Upson of Indiana was only 16 when he begged his father to let him join the Union army. His father replied, “This Union your ancestors and mine helped to make must be saved from destruction.” William Stone ...
... were young. The average recruit was 25 years old, but about 40 percent were 21 or younger. Ted Upson of Indiana was only 16 when he begged his father to let him join the Union army. His father replied, “This Union your ancestors and mine helped to make must be saved from destruction.” William Stone ...
- Explore Georgia
... place in summer 1864, when the began making their way to 44th USCI was stationed in Rome, Union lines. On April 7, 1862, Ga., and its ranks grew to approximately 800 black Abraham Murchison, an escaped slave and preacher enlisted men commanded by Col. Lewis Johnson, from Savannah, helped recruit 150 ...
... place in summer 1864, when the began making their way to 44th USCI was stationed in Rome, Union lines. On April 7, 1862, Ga., and its ranks grew to approximately 800 black Abraham Murchison, an escaped slave and preacher enlisted men commanded by Col. Lewis Johnson, from Savannah, helped recruit 150 ...
The American Civil War`s Western
... This image is titled “Siege of Vicksburg—13, 15, & 17 Corps, Commanded by Gen. U.S. Grant, Assisted by the Navy Under Admiral Porter– Surrender, July 4, 1863.” This image was created by Kurz and Allison circa 1888. This image is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress. ...
... This image is titled “Siege of Vicksburg—13, 15, & 17 Corps, Commanded by Gen. U.S. Grant, Assisted by the Navy Under Admiral Porter– Surrender, July 4, 1863.” This image was created by Kurz and Allison circa 1888. This image is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress. ...
John Bennett Walters, Total War, and the Raid on
... a trail of burned houses, needless destruction of the necessities of life, and the wholesale theft of private property.” According to Walters, upon arriving in South Carolina, Sherman “resumed his campaign of terror on a more extensive scale.” Wherever Sherman went, Walters wrote, “wanton waste, ars ...
... a trail of burned houses, needless destruction of the necessities of life, and the wholesale theft of private property.” According to Walters, upon arriving in South Carolina, Sherman “resumed his campaign of terror on a more extensive scale.” Wherever Sherman went, Walters wrote, “wanton waste, ars ...
Example of Play: New Orleans 1862
... scenario. Players have three card options available when they set-up the game. In this case, the players opt to use “Option B”… with pre-designated cards specific to the major historical naval battles fought during the game’s first turn: April 1862 (see attached copy of relevant play test cards). Re ...
... scenario. Players have three card options available when they set-up the game. In this case, the players opt to use “Option B”… with pre-designated cards specific to the major historical naval battles fought during the game’s first turn: April 1862 (see attached copy of relevant play test cards). Re ...
Chapter 7: The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
... strong, quick invasion of the South. Northern newspapers scorned this strategy, which they called the Anaconda Plan, after the snake that slowly strangles its prey to death. Lincoln eventually agreed to implement Scott’s suggestions and imposed a blockade of Southern ports. Ultimately, however, he a ...
... strong, quick invasion of the South. Northern newspapers scorned this strategy, which they called the Anaconda Plan, after the snake that slowly strangles its prey to death. Lincoln eventually agreed to implement Scott’s suggestions and imposed a blockade of Southern ports. Ultimately, however, he a ...
Catoosa County History - Catoosa County Chamber of Commerce
... domesticated the dog, and learned to fish and hunt smaller animals such as deer, bears and turkeys. For this they needed the smaller arrowhead that can still be found along our creek bottoms. The best evidence we have of these early settlers was discovered in Ringgold Gap in 1959. Excavations for I- ...
... domesticated the dog, and learned to fish and hunt smaller animals such as deer, bears and turkeys. For this they needed the smaller arrowhead that can still be found along our creek bottoms. The best evidence we have of these early settlers was discovered in Ringgold Gap in 1959. Excavations for I- ...
Episode 2, 2006: Confederate Eyeglass, Terre Haute, Indiana
... opposition to President Lincoln grows as fears spread his armies will be defeated. Secret societies form in the Union states bordering the South, united in opposition to both Lincoln and the war. Those southern sympathizers operating north of the Mason Dixon line are surprisingly powerful and danger ...
... opposition to President Lincoln grows as fears spread his armies will be defeated. Secret societies form in the Union states bordering the South, united in opposition to both Lincoln and the war. Those southern sympathizers operating north of the Mason Dixon line are surprisingly powerful and danger ...
Desertion in the Confederate Army: A Disease that Crippled Dixie
... straggling – falling out of line of the march, or immediately before or during battle with intent to return; skulking – avoiding military service by fraud or other illegal actions; self-mutilation; malingering at the expiration of a furlough, during furloughs, or exemptions; and collusion with medic ...
... straggling – falling out of line of the march, or immediately before or during battle with intent to return; skulking – avoiding military service by fraud or other illegal actions; self-mutilation; malingering at the expiration of a furlough, during furloughs, or exemptions; and collusion with medic ...
matt barber epq
... numbers and military capability does not guarantee victory. While he does admit that superior guns and number of soldiers did contribute to Northern victory, it does not explain Southern defeat. He argues that substandard Southern leadership was responsible for losing the war, principally Jefferson D ...
... numbers and military capability does not guarantee victory. While he does admit that superior guns and number of soldiers did contribute to Northern victory, it does not explain Southern defeat. He argues that substandard Southern leadership was responsible for losing the war, principally Jefferson D ...
The Battle of Antietam
... in reserve. The unsupported I Corps would ultimately meet the Confederates in the Cornfield where dozens of regiments fought and the firing was so thick and furious that, “…every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as closely as with a knife.” Hooker’s forces fought f ...
... in reserve. The unsupported I Corps would ultimately meet the Confederates in the Cornfield where dozens of regiments fought and the firing was so thick and furious that, “…every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as closely as with a knife.” Hooker’s forces fought f ...
Civil War Blockade-Running at Jupiter Inlet 1861
... The warship was armed with four 32-pound guns, and manned by a crew of sixty-nine seamen. The Roebuck joined the East Gulf Coast Blockade Squadron in September 1862 with Acting Master Joseph Barclay in temporary command. After completed a patrol along the Gulf coast of Florida, the gunboat was reass ...
... The warship was armed with four 32-pound guns, and manned by a crew of sixty-nine seamen. The Roebuck joined the East Gulf Coast Blockade Squadron in September 1862 with Acting Master Joseph Barclay in temporary command. After completed a patrol along the Gulf coast of Florida, the gunboat was reass ...
East Tennessee bridge burnings
The East Tennessee bridge burnings were a series of guerrilla operations carried out during the Civil War by Union sympathizers in Confederate-held East Tennessee in 1861. The operations, which were planned by Carter County minister William B. Carter (1820–1902) and authorized by President Abraham Lincoln, called for the destruction of nine strategic railroad bridges, followed by an invasion of the area by Union Army forces from southeastern Kentucky. The pro-Union conspirators managed to destroy five of the nine targeted bridges, but the Union Army failed to move, and did not invade East Tennessee until 1863, nearly two years after the incident.The destruction of the bridges, which were all quickly rebuilt, had little military impact. However, the sabotage attacks caused a shift in the way the Confederate authorities dealt with East Tennessee's large number of Union sympathizers. Portions of the region were placed under martial law, while dozens of Unionists were arrested and jailed. Several suspected bridge burners were tried and hanged. The actions of the Confederate authorities placed increased pressure on Lincoln to send Union troops into East Tennessee. A pro-Union newspaper publisher, William G. ""Parson"" Brownlow, used the arrests and hangings as propaganda in his 1862 anti-secession diatribe, Sketches of the Rise, Progress and Decline of Secession.