My will is absolute law“ General Robert H. Milroy and
... The story of Winchester, Virginia during the Civil War revolves around repeated military occupation. Situated in Virginia’s Lower Shenandoah Valley, Winchester thrived as a business community prior to the Civil War. All of the area’s major roads converged on the town, and the strategic location that ...
... The story of Winchester, Virginia during the Civil War revolves around repeated military occupation. Situated in Virginia’s Lower Shenandoah Valley, Winchester thrived as a business community prior to the Civil War. All of the area’s major roads converged on the town, and the strategic location that ...
the rise and fall of General George B. McClellan.
... Few generals in the American Civil war are more enigmatic than General George B. McClellan. Born of a prominent family in Philadelphia, McClellan attended West Point beginning in 1842. Following graduation in 1846, McClellan fought in the Mexican War, then became part of a military mission to the Cr ...
... Few generals in the American Civil war are more enigmatic than General George B. McClellan. Born of a prominent family in Philadelphia, McClellan attended West Point beginning in 1842. Following graduation in 1846, McClellan fought in the Mexican War, then became part of a military mission to the Cr ...
A Mainer From Rockland: Adelbert Ames in the Civil War.
... Rod Gragg, Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher, (New York, NY: HarperCollins ...
... Rod Gragg, Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher, (New York, NY: HarperCollins ...
lincoln and mcclellan: a marriage of convenience turned sour
... fastnesses fortified at their leisure.”17 While none of these things were false, they were large exaggerations of what actually happened. McClellan’s victory “went over big; and just then, before anybody had forgotten about it, the news came in of the humiliating disaster at Bull Run, with untrained ...
... fastnesses fortified at their leisure.”17 While none of these things were false, they were large exaggerations of what actually happened. McClellan’s victory “went over big; and just then, before anybody had forgotten about it, the news came in of the humiliating disaster at Bull Run, with untrained ...
A Preservation Plan for the Tebbs Bend Civil War Battlefield Taylor
... MORGAN’S JULY 1863 GREAT RAID Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan left Alexandria, Tennessee, on June 11, 1863, with almost 2,500 men, most of them Kentuckians, two three-inch Parrott guns, two twelvepounder howitzers, and a large supply train. His orders were to take his command into Kentucky, attack ...
... MORGAN’S JULY 1863 GREAT RAID Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan left Alexandria, Tennessee, on June 11, 1863, with almost 2,500 men, most of them Kentuckians, two three-inch Parrott guns, two twelvepounder howitzers, and a large supply train. His orders were to take his command into Kentucky, attack ...
Jenkins` Ferry Pres plan Draft.indd
... Edmund Kirby Smith’s Confederate army caught Gen. Frederick Steele’s Union army south of Leola, Arkansas. The Union forces held off the Confederates that day, allowing the Union army to escape into the Saline River bottom. On April 30, 1864, Union infantry repulsed a succession of Confederate attack ...
... Edmund Kirby Smith’s Confederate army caught Gen. Frederick Steele’s Union army south of Leola, Arkansas. The Union forces held off the Confederates that day, allowing the Union army to escape into the Saline River bottom. On April 30, 1864, Union infantry repulsed a succession of Confederate attack ...
John Bell Hood: Extracting Truth from History
... called it “an unnecessary and bloody fight, waged in an effort to make up for the hesitation the day before at Spring Hill.”2 Certainly Franklin stands as one of the bloodiest assaults of the war; nearly 2000 Confederates died, but its necessity is debatable. This battle is positioned at the center ...
... called it “an unnecessary and bloody fight, waged in an effort to make up for the hesitation the day before at Spring Hill.”2 Certainly Franklin stands as one of the bloodiest assaults of the war; nearly 2000 Confederates died, but its necessity is debatable. This battle is positioned at the center ...
MAINTAINING ORDER IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS: ROBERT E
... writing that has impeded further inquiries into military aspects of the Civil War, including Lee’s staff. As seen in the writings of Russell Weigley and others, many historians are now arguing that the battles and campaigns of the Civil War were irrelevant to its outcome. According to this line of r ...
... writing that has impeded further inquiries into military aspects of the Civil War, including Lee’s staff. As seen in the writings of Russell Weigley and others, many historians are now arguing that the battles and campaigns of the Civil War were irrelevant to its outcome. According to this line of r ...
View - OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
... Ted Ballard, Staff Ride Guide: The Battle of Antietam, (Washington DC: Center of Military History, ...
... Ted Ballard, Staff Ride Guide: The Battle of Antietam, (Washington DC: Center of Military History, ...
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 ...
The Positive Contributions of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of
... glorious route of the southern army. When it failed to happen, and was reversed, in part, thanks to the bold example given by an enthusiastic young Confederate named Brigadier General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Wade, Chandler, and Senator George Riddle of Delaware attempted, rifle in hand, to rever ...
... glorious route of the southern army. When it failed to happen, and was reversed, in part, thanks to the bold example given by an enthusiastic young Confederate named Brigadier General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Wade, Chandler, and Senator George Riddle of Delaware attempted, rifle in hand, to rever ...
ECWC TOPIC Barton Clara Essay
... and another female teacher resigned from their positions at the Bordentown School in protest. Together, they boarded a train for Washington to seek work as governesses. There, Barton met with Congressman Alexander DeWitt, the representative from her district and a distant cousin, who initially found ...
... and another female teacher resigned from their positions at the Bordentown School in protest. Together, they boarded a train for Washington to seek work as governesses. There, Barton met with Congressman Alexander DeWitt, the representative from her district and a distant cousin, who initially found ...
Rules of Play
... and Strength Points (SPs). Battle Rating: An indication of a general’s ability in battle, retreat before battle, and interception situations. Each general possesses an offensive and a defensive battle rating. Whenever the general is activated and moving he uses his offensive rating for all game func ...
... and Strength Points (SPs). Battle Rating: An indication of a general’s ability in battle, retreat before battle, and interception situations. Each general possesses an offensive and a defensive battle rating. Whenever the general is activated and moving he uses his offensive rating for all game func ...
George E. Pickett - Essential Civil War Curriculum
... Confederate Major General George Edward Pickett was born into the wealth and privilege of Virginia’s antebellum elite. However, Pickett’s life did not follow a predictable route and he ended up a broken and bitter man, dying at the age of 50, remembered chiefly for a failed military charge that he d ...
... Confederate Major General George Edward Pickett was born into the wealth and privilege of Virginia’s antebellum elite. However, Pickett’s life did not follow a predictable route and he ended up a broken and bitter man, dying at the age of 50, remembered chiefly for a failed military charge that he d ...
View - OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
... simultaneously trying to find a way to win the Civil War. Historians such as Charles P. Roland argued that Lee fulfilled his duties against “the heaviest odds ever faced by an American commander.” 8 Lee was also faced with a Northern “war machine” that was able to outwork the Confederate manufacturi ...
... simultaneously trying to find a way to win the Civil War. Historians such as Charles P. Roland argued that Lee fulfilled his duties against “the heaviest odds ever faced by an American commander.” 8 Lee was also faced with a Northern “war machine” that was able to outwork the Confederate manufacturi ...
gettysburg to appomattox: the south`s critical
... and I found them at the battle of Gettysburg. My studies led me to analyze the elements which clearly showed the failure mode of the Confederacy, and place them in my book. The battle of Gettysburg was only part of the series of failures for the Confederates. Other battles, near the conclusion of th ...
... and I found them at the battle of Gettysburg. My studies led me to analyze the elements which clearly showed the failure mode of the Confederacy, and place them in my book. The battle of Gettysburg was only part of the series of failures for the Confederates. Other battles, near the conclusion of th ...
Caresser of Life: Walt Whitman and the Civil War
... two-hundred-pound, still somewhat firmly apportioned male to be "voluptuous." By 1860 he was fulfilling the prophecy-if perhaps only vicariously and in the poems. Whitman's disappearance may have been part of a pattern, begun in 1848 after the initial failure of his Free-Soil newspaper, The Freeman, ...
... two-hundred-pound, still somewhat firmly apportioned male to be "voluptuous." By 1860 he was fulfilling the prophecy-if perhaps only vicariously and in the poems. Whitman's disappearance may have been part of a pattern, begun in 1848 after the initial failure of his Free-Soil newspaper, The Freeman, ...
Read Act 1… - Loch Willow
... Once back in Virginia, Jackson moved his headquarters just south of Winchester. As the troops rested and refitted, Jackson kept Hotchkiss busy making maps of the region and finishing the just completed Maryland campaign. General Lee also requested maps from Hotchkiss. And being confident in Hotchki ...
... Once back in Virginia, Jackson moved his headquarters just south of Winchester. As the troops rested and refitted, Jackson kept Hotchkiss busy making maps of the region and finishing the just completed Maryland campaign. General Lee also requested maps from Hotchkiss. And being confident in Hotchki ...
The Union Army Had Something to Do With It
... wing on August 28, 1862, on the eve of the Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas): The notable part of this action was fought by Gibbon's Brigade of three Wisconsin regiments, and one Indiana reenforced by two regiments of Doubleday’s, --the 56th Pa. and the 76th N.Y. , --in all about 3000 men. Oppose ...
... wing on August 28, 1862, on the eve of the Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas): The notable part of this action was fought by Gibbon's Brigade of three Wisconsin regiments, and one Indiana reenforced by two regiments of Doubleday’s, --the 56th Pa. and the 76th N.Y. , --in all about 3000 men. Oppose ...
Southern honor, Confederate warfare : southern
... system itself. Race-based slavery in the southern states was a brutal, violent, and endemic factor in the lives of every southerner. Violence between master and slave, both physical ...
... system itself. Race-based slavery in the southern states was a brutal, violent, and endemic factor in the lives of every southerner. Violence between master and slave, both physical ...
The Civil War Days of Captain Charles D. Roush
... In September the Union Army began a move to wrest back control of the Potomac, which the South had blockaded further south in Virginia. By late October the Union forces occupied a line from Fairfax Court House to Leesburg. The most northern point for the Confederates, who had abandoned Munson's Hill ...
... In September the Union Army began a move to wrest back control of the Potomac, which the South had blockaded further south in Virginia. By late October the Union forces occupied a line from Fairfax Court House to Leesburg. The most northern point for the Confederates, who had abandoned Munson's Hill ...
General George Brinton McClellan: The Cautious
... McClellan was a conservative Democrat and strongly opposed to abolition. By the beginning of 1862, the question of emancipation for the slaves had been raised, President Lincoln wrote a letter to the New York Times pointing out that the war was costing $2 million a day and that if it cost $400 a he ...
... McClellan was a conservative Democrat and strongly opposed to abolition. By the beginning of 1862, the question of emancipation for the slaves had been raised, President Lincoln wrote a letter to the New York Times pointing out that the war was costing $2 million a day and that if it cost $400 a he ...
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... McClellan was a conservative Democrat and strongly opposed to abolition. By the beginning of 1862, the question of emancipation for the slaves had been raised, President Lincoln wrote a letter to the New York Times pointing out that the war was costing $2 million a day and that if it cost $400 a he ...
... McClellan was a conservative Democrat and strongly opposed to abolition. By the beginning of 1862, the question of emancipation for the slaves had been raised, President Lincoln wrote a letter to the New York Times pointing out that the war was costing $2 million a day and that if it cost $400 a he ...
McClellan at Fairfax Court House
... All of these events conspired to force McClellan to finally advance his Army of the Potomac into Virginia. On Sunday, March 9, 1862, President Lincoln and U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton were at McClellan’s home, two blocks from the White House, on the corner of 15th & H St., N.W., Washington ...
... All of these events conspired to force McClellan to finally advance his Army of the Potomac into Virginia. On Sunday, March 9, 1862, President Lincoln and U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton were at McClellan’s home, two blocks from the White House, on the corner of 15th & H St., N.W., Washington ...
O`Brien 1 Matt O`Brien Professor Schaaf Hist-498N
... Following the invasion of the North, in September, 1862, by Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Union forces scrambled to counter the offensive that the South had organized. Lee and the Army of Virginia gradually moved north searching for a decisive victory from which it could circle around Washingto ...
... Following the invasion of the North, in September, 1862, by Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Union forces scrambled to counter the offensive that the South had organized. Lee and the Army of Virginia gradually moved north searching for a decisive victory from which it could circle around Washingto ...
Battle of Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside. The Union Army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates.Burnside's plan was to cross the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg in mid-November and race to the Confederate capital of Richmond before Lee's army could stop him. Bureaucratic delays prevented Burnside from receiving the necessary pontoon bridges in time and Lee moved his army to block the crossings. When the Union army was finally able to build its bridges and cross under fire, urban combat in the city resulted on December 11–12. Union troops prepared to assault Confederate defensive positions south of the city and on a strongly fortified ridge just west of the city known as Marye's Heights.On December 13, the ""grand division"" of Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin was able to pierce the first defensive line of Confederate Lieutenant General Stonewall Jackson to the south, but was finally repulsed. Burnside ordered the grand divisions of Maj. Gens. Edwin V. Sumner and Joseph Hooker to make multiple frontal assaults against Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's position on Marye's Heights, all of which were repulsed with heavy losses. On December 15, Burnside withdrew his army, ending another failed Union campaign in the Eastern Theater.