General James Longstreet
... This was the battle that mortally wounded Stonewall Jackson, earned Longstreet his place as Lee’s right hand man, and began the argument over statistics that lead to Gettysburg. Though all of this happened because of this battle, Longstreet had not even been present for it. He was in transit at th ...
... This was the battle that mortally wounded Stonewall Jackson, earned Longstreet his place as Lee’s right hand man, and began the argument over statistics that lead to Gettysburg. Though all of this happened because of this battle, Longstreet had not even been present for it. He was in transit at th ...
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... First Day at Gettysburg by James Walker During the summer of 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee proposed a daring invasion into Pennsylvania in hopes that it might force the Union to end the war. It proved to be a turning point, but not the one Lee anticipated. At Gettysburg, a series of battle ...
... First Day at Gettysburg by James Walker During the summer of 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee proposed a daring invasion into Pennsylvania in hopes that it might force the Union to end the war. It proved to be a turning point, but not the one Lee anticipated. At Gettysburg, a series of battle ...
William C - Essential Civil War Curriculum
... shoring up his defensive position in anticipation of Confederate attack the next day.6 On January 2, 1863, Bragg launched an abortive attack on the Union left. Rosecrans had reinforced the position, and his men easily repulsed the Confederates who were badly bloodied by Rosecrans’s massed artillery. ...
... shoring up his defensive position in anticipation of Confederate attack the next day.6 On January 2, 1863, Bragg launched an abortive attack on the Union left. Rosecrans had reinforced the position, and his men easily repulsed the Confederates who were badly bloodied by Rosecrans’s massed artillery. ...
Battle of Antietam
... pushed back Union forces defending Washington, D.C. Second Battle of Bull Run ...
... pushed back Union forces defending Washington, D.C. Second Battle of Bull Run ...
Chapter 21 - BFHS
... not to have realized that an army is never ready to the last button and that wars cannot be won without running some risks. He consistently but erroneously believed that the enemy outnumbered him, partly because his intelligence reports from the head of Pinkerton’s Detective Agency were unreliable. ...
... not to have realized that an army is never ready to the last button and that wars cannot be won without running some risks. He consistently but erroneously believed that the enemy outnumbered him, partly because his intelligence reports from the head of Pinkerton’s Detective Agency were unreliable. ...
The Negative Impact of Jefferson Davis` Lack of Grand Strategy
... Won: A military History of the Civil War does not discuss Davis’ lack of a grand strategy, nor does the tens of thousands of books that examine “The Lost Cause” theory that the South was destined to lose from the start. 12 Those books do look at various reasons, but not from the prospective of how i ...
... Won: A military History of the Civil War does not discuss Davis’ lack of a grand strategy, nor does the tens of thousands of books that examine “The Lost Cause” theory that the South was destined to lose from the start. 12 Those books do look at various reasons, but not from the prospective of how i ...
Ulysses S. Grant and the Meaning of Appomattox
... bargaining food for trinkets. There were other, less encouraging scenes as well. Jubilant Union troops engaged in the looting of Confederate campsites in a defiant rejection of Grant’s orders.10 Grant commanded his soldiers not to act disrespectfully toward Confederates who were on their way to nor ...
... bargaining food for trinkets. There were other, less encouraging scenes as well. Jubilant Union troops engaged in the looting of Confederate campsites in a defiant rejection of Grant’s orders.10 Grant commanded his soldiers not to act disrespectfully toward Confederates who were on their way to nor ...
X Marks the Spot - Ames Plantation
... under control of the Hobart Ames Trust, is a center for agricultural and historical research, much of which is done by the University of Tennessee. The plantation maintains a detailed historical resource program, allowing for Civil War era landmarks, many of which are featured on the Ames Map to be ...
... under control of the Hobart Ames Trust, is a center for agricultural and historical research, much of which is done by the University of Tennessee. The plantation maintains a detailed historical resource program, allowing for Civil War era landmarks, many of which are featured on the Ames Map to be ...
the civil war comes to yazoo - 1862
... Hartford and Richmondwithout serious damage. Anywhere the Confederate ironclad might fire, it was almost certain to hit a Union ship. But the Union fleet did more damage to itself than the Arkansas could ever have inflicted. Many of the shots fired at the Arkansas passed over her low gun house and l ...
... Hartford and Richmondwithout serious damage. Anywhere the Confederate ironclad might fire, it was almost certain to hit a Union ship. But the Union fleet did more damage to itself than the Arkansas could ever have inflicted. Many of the shots fired at the Arkansas passed over her low gun house and l ...
Battle of Blue Springs Teachers Guide
... Teachers: After discussing the difficulties in choosing sides during the Civil War (see activity on page 12), ask students to imagine that they are living in East Tennessee in 1861. Have students decide, without speaking out loud, which side they will choose to support, the Union or the Confederacy. ...
... Teachers: After discussing the difficulties in choosing sides during the Civil War (see activity on page 12), ask students to imagine that they are living in East Tennessee in 1861. Have students decide, without speaking out loud, which side they will choose to support, the Union or the Confederacy. ...
- Explore Georgia
... Cumberland. Most recruiting took control, and enslaved Georgians 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 c ...
... Cumberland. Most recruiting took control, and enslaved Georgians 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 c ...
CONTESTED VISIONS: THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
... Audio: Let me set the stage now for the symbolic beginning of the war. In early 1861, Abraham Lincoln took office as President of the United States, having been elected in November of 1860. However, before he even took the oath of office, seven Southern states had already seceded from the Union. The ...
... Audio: Let me set the stage now for the symbolic beginning of the war. In early 1861, Abraham Lincoln took office as President of the United States, having been elected in November of 1860. However, before he even took the oath of office, seven Southern states had already seceded from the Union. The ...
Reveille
... The Civil War touched the lives of many Americans, including many associated with the classical era of American entomology. The list of those who served in the military or were influenced by the war reads like a Who's Who of early entomology. The war even affected the language of entomologists who d ...
... The Civil War touched the lives of many Americans, including many associated with the classical era of American entomology. The list of those who served in the military or were influenced by the war reads like a Who's Who of early entomology. The war even affected the language of entomologists who d ...
1 Civil War Lithograph Of The First Refreshment Saloon
... Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, from April 1861 to April 1865. New York, 1881. Three volumes. Thick octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco. $4500. First edition, mixed issue set of aide-de-camp Badeau’s important “eyewitness estimation of Grant’s performance during the war,” wi ...
... Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, from April 1861 to April 1865. New York, 1881. Three volumes. Thick octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco. $4500. First edition, mixed issue set of aide-de-camp Badeau’s important “eyewitness estimation of Grant’s performance during the war,” wi ...
by Nick Bolash - College of William and Mary
... After the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln and the secession of eleven southern states, life seemed to move on as normally as possible in Broadway Landing. To the citizens of the now-small village, the shots fired at Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg may well have been a thousand miles away. Sure, ...
... After the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln and the secession of eleven southern states, life seemed to move on as normally as possible in Broadway Landing. To the citizens of the now-small village, the shots fired at Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg may well have been a thousand miles away. Sure, ...
shot all to pieces - Lone Jack Historical Society
... In the last week of July 1862 Colonel John T. Coffee and Lieutenant Colonel John C. Tracy, each with about three hundred men, rode from their camps at Frog Bayou and headed north to Missouri. Both commands considered themselves independent from Cockrell, as Coffee still refused to join the Confedera ...
... In the last week of July 1862 Colonel John T. Coffee and Lieutenant Colonel John C. Tracy, each with about three hundred men, rode from their camps at Frog Bayou and headed north to Missouri. Both commands considered themselves independent from Cockrell, as Coffee still refused to join the Confedera ...
September, 2009 Book Reviews for James M. McPherson`s Drawn
... Civil War. The war itself I mostly learned about on my own. The first serious book I read on the Civil War after college was Michael Shaara’s Killer Angels, which introduced me to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, which Burns states got him interested in the Civil War. Jim McPherson addresses some of th ...
... Civil War. The war itself I mostly learned about on my own. The first serious book I read on the Civil War after college was Michael Shaara’s Killer Angels, which introduced me to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, which Burns states got him interested in the Civil War. Jim McPherson addresses some of th ...
THE THIRD REGIMENT MAINE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
... * Leadership was by the example that the officer gave to the men. A good officer was concern for the welfare of his men and was willing to do anything that he asked his men to do. The officer’s personal example of courage in combat and his willingness to share the burdens of the soldiers while on t ...
... * Leadership was by the example that the officer gave to the men. A good officer was concern for the welfare of his men and was willing to do anything that he asked his men to do. The officer’s personal example of courage in combat and his willingness to share the burdens of the soldiers while on t ...
Notes on the Civil War - Garrett Academy Of Technology
... Notes on the Civil War Ft. Sumter: Bombardment started April 12, 1861 at 4:30 am – Edmund Ruffin fires 1st shot Union commander at Sumter was Maj. Robert Anderson Confederate commander was Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant (PGT) Beauregard After 34 hours of bombardment, Anderson sends word that he will su ...
... Notes on the Civil War Ft. Sumter: Bombardment started April 12, 1861 at 4:30 am – Edmund Ruffin fires 1st shot Union commander at Sumter was Maj. Robert Anderson Confederate commander was Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant (PGT) Beauregard After 34 hours of bombardment, Anderson sends word that he will su ...
Lincoln, the Commander-in
... Richmond, would lead to a Northern victory. General McClellan, despite his highly regarded abilities as an organizer, was slow-acting and painfully deliberate. On September 17, 1862 the Battle of Antietam would be fought to a tactical draw, but not before 23,110 Americans were either killed, wounded ...
... Richmond, would lead to a Northern victory. General McClellan, despite his highly regarded abilities as an organizer, was slow-acting and painfully deliberate. On September 17, 1862 the Battle of Antietam would be fought to a tactical draw, but not before 23,110 Americans were either killed, wounded ...
History in the Making
... their cause. That moment only came after Confederate forces fired on Union forces at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. 16.2.1 from Secession to War After South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas voted to secede, members of the newly formed Confederate gov ...
... their cause. That moment only came after Confederate forces fired on Union forces at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. 16.2.1 from Secession to War After South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas voted to secede, members of the newly formed Confederate gov ...
Union College Connections to the Civil War Era A Glossary of
... volunteers by 1862. In June of that year, Butterfield’s brigade was attacked by Confederates at Gaines Mill, Virginia, and, although he was wounded in battle, he seized the flag of the 83rd Pennsylvania to rally his troops, thus earning the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1892. While recovering from ...
... volunteers by 1862. In June of that year, Butterfield’s brigade was attacked by Confederates at Gaines Mill, Virginia, and, although he was wounded in battle, he seized the flag of the 83rd Pennsylvania to rally his troops, thus earning the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1892. While recovering from ...
Battlefield Of Franklin Land Preservation Purchase
... when he visited The Hermitage, near Nashville. Throughout his enlistment King exhibited a strong desire to fight until the war was won, and he showed little reluctance to criticize the generals. Don Carlos Buell, in his estimation, was a “traitor.” And when George B. McClellan was relieved of comman ...
... when he visited The Hermitage, near Nashville. Throughout his enlistment King exhibited a strong desire to fight until the war was won, and he showed little reluctance to criticize the generals. Don Carlos Buell, in his estimation, was a “traitor.” And when George B. McClellan was relieved of comman ...
On Civil War Turning Points
... On the surface, therefore, both Gettysburg and Vicksburg seem like good candidates for TPs, and the disagreement among historians between them affirms this. Some think that Vicksburg is the TP because it split the Confederacy in half and others think that Gettysburg is the TP because it stopped the ...
... On the surface, therefore, both Gettysburg and Vicksburg seem like good candidates for TPs, and the disagreement among historians between them affirms this. Some think that Vicksburg is the TP because it split the Confederacy in half and others think that Gettysburg is the TP because it stopped the ...
History and Memory in Gettysburg - SUrface
... surrounding the prosperous Pennsylvania town. By the time the fighting was over, more than 4,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were dead. At least another 45,000 were wounded, captured, or had gone missing. But despite the losses, the North’s Army of the Potomac was successful in its efforts to dri ...
... surrounding the prosperous Pennsylvania town. By the time the fighting was over, more than 4,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were dead. At least another 45,000 were wounded, captured, or had gone missing. But despite the losses, the North’s Army of the Potomac was successful in its efforts to dri ...
Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. A Union army under Major General Ulysses S. Grant had moved via the Tennessee River deep into Tennessee and was encamped principally at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee on the west bank of the river, where Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and Pierre G. T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack on Grant's army. Johnston was killed in action during the fighting; Beauregard, who thus succeeded to command of the army, decided against pressing the attack late in the evening. Overnight Grant received considerable reinforcements from another Union army under Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, allowing him to launch an unexpected counterattack the next morning which completely reversed the Confederate gains of the previous day.On April 6, the first day of the battle, the Confederates struck with the intention of driving the Union defenders away from the river and into the swamps of Owl Creek to the west. Johnston hoped to defeat Grant's Army of the Tennessee before the anticipated arrival of General Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio. The Confederate battle lines became confused during the fierce fighting, and Grant's men instead fell back to the northeast, in the direction of Pittsburg Landing. A Union position on a slightly sunken road, nicknamed the ""Hornet's Nest"", defended by the men of Brig. Gens. Benjamin M. Prentiss's and William H. L. Wallace's divisions, provided critical time for the remainder of the Union line to stabilize under the protection of numerous artillery batteries. W. H. L. Wallace was mortally wounded at Shiloh, while Prentiss was eventually surrounded and surrendered. General Johnston was shot in the leg and bled to death while personally leading an attack. Beauregard, his second in command, acknowledged how tired the army was from the day's exertions and decided against assaulting the final Union position that night.Reinforcements from Buell's army and a division of Grant's army arrived in the evening of April 6 and helped turn the tide the next morning, when the Union commanders launched a counterattack along the entire line. Confederate forces were forced to retreat from the area, ending their hopes of blocking the Union advance into northern Mississippi. The Battle of Shiloh was the bloodiest battle in American history up to that time, replaced the next year by the Battle of Chancellorsville (and, soon after, the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, which would prove to be the bloodiest of the war).