THESIS CONFEDERATE MILITARY STRATEGY
... to access freedom. When blacks started to serve in the Union military, southern hatred of racial equality drove them to vicious military actions against black prisoners of war and white officers. Chapter two complicates the narrative by introducing class conflict as a result of military favoritism g ...
... to access freedom. When blacks started to serve in the Union military, southern hatred of racial equality drove them to vicious military actions against black prisoners of war and white officers. Chapter two complicates the narrative by introducing class conflict as a result of military favoritism g ...
Best Little Stories from the Civil War, 2E
... armies, who won the battle and how they did so. Rather than write a straightforward, fact-filled—but potentially dull—short biography of U. S. Grant as the Union general who finally won the Civil War for Abraham Lincoln, it’s far more interesting to recall the little moment when he led his troops to ...
... armies, who won the battle and how they did so. Rather than write a straightforward, fact-filled—but potentially dull—short biography of U. S. Grant as the Union general who finally won the Civil War for Abraham Lincoln, it’s far more interesting to recall the little moment when he led his troops to ...
heading one
... Northern Virginia to Union commander General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, the last major battle of the Civil War was fought at Fort Blakely 1 , Alabama, ten miles northeast of Mobile on the bluffs overlooking the Tensaw River. On April 9, 1865, after an eight-day siege, 16,000 Union tro ...
... Northern Virginia to Union commander General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, the last major battle of the Civil War was fought at Fort Blakely 1 , Alabama, ten miles northeast of Mobile on the bluffs overlooking the Tensaw River. On April 9, 1865, after an eight-day siege, 16,000 Union tro ...
A Public History Project Atblakeley Historic Park, Alabama
... Northern Virginia to Union commander General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, the last major battle of the Civil War was fought at Fort Blakely 1 , Alabama, ten miles northeast of Mobile on the bluffs overlooking the Tensaw River. On April 9, 1865, after an eight-day siege, 16,000 Union tro ...
... Northern Virginia to Union commander General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, the last major battle of the Civil War was fought at Fort Blakely 1 , Alabama, ten miles northeast of Mobile on the bluffs overlooking the Tensaw River. On April 9, 1865, after an eight-day siege, 16,000 Union tro ...
1864: The Decisive Year
... on the narrow roads in the Wilderness with a vengeance. Staggered but not defeated, the Union army did what it would do for the next month, disengage and move south and east, keeping Richmond in its crosshairs. Lee caught up near Spotsylvania Court House, where the armies slugged it out for more tha ...
... on the narrow roads in the Wilderness with a vengeance. Staggered but not defeated, the Union army did what it would do for the next month, disengage and move south and east, keeping Richmond in its crosshairs. Lee caught up near Spotsylvania Court House, where the armies slugged it out for more tha ...
Untitled - TCU Digital Repository
... committed by Union soldiers against Southern civilians rose. Other historians have hypothesized that rape was less common in this conflict than others due to the staggering number of prostitutes that followed both armies. 21 For example, one soldier in Grant’s army, Sergeant Cyrus F. Boyd ...
... committed by Union soldiers against Southern civilians rose. Other historians have hypothesized that rape was less common in this conflict than others due to the staggering number of prostitutes that followed both armies. 21 For example, one soldier in Grant’s army, Sergeant Cyrus F. Boyd ...
Civil War in the Lone Star State - Texas State Historical Association
... to raise and equip a brigade of cavalry to drive federal forces from New Mexico. In August he established his headquarters in San Antonio, where he began recruiting men for the “Army of New Mexico.” In early November the brigade, consisting of three regiments, began the long march to El Paso, nearly ...
... to raise and equip a brigade of cavalry to drive federal forces from New Mexico. In August he established his headquarters in San Antonio, where he began recruiting men for the “Army of New Mexico.” In early November the brigade, consisting of three regiments, began the long march to El Paso, nearly ...
America at Mid-19th Century: Abolition, Civil War, Emancipation
... Northerners and Southerners toward their conflicting destinations. The advent of more pictures arriving on the newsstands, sometimes only days after events took place, either solidified or inflamed public opinion, both in the North and South. Events that had moved along rapidly in 1776, culminating ...
... Northerners and Southerners toward their conflicting destinations. The advent of more pictures arriving on the newsstands, sometimes only days after events took place, either solidified or inflamed public opinion, both in the North and South. Events that had moved along rapidly in 1776, culminating ...
A Border City at War - Cincinnati History Library and Archives
... Bragg and Kirby Smith, and President Jefferson Davis—recognized the strategic advantages that Louisville and other Ohio River cities offered the Union army and they sought to counter those advantages. They had good reason to believe that they could do this easily. Previous Confederate raids into Ken ...
... Bragg and Kirby Smith, and President Jefferson Davis—recognized the strategic advantages that Louisville and other Ohio River cities offered the Union army and they sought to counter those advantages. They had good reason to believe that they could do this easily. Previous Confederate raids into Ken ...
George B. McClellan - Scarsdale Public Schools
... that killed or wounded more than twenty-three thousand Union and Confederate soldiers. This one-day casualty total marked the single bloodiest day in Civil War history. By September 19, Lee decided to retreat back to Virginia. But it took his men some time to cross the swollen Potomac River. Some h ...
... that killed or wounded more than twenty-three thousand Union and Confederate soldiers. This one-day casualty total marked the single bloodiest day in Civil War history. By September 19, Lee decided to retreat back to Virginia. But it took his men some time to cross the swollen Potomac River. Some h ...
Commanders of the Confederacy
... seat in June, and raised a volunteer regiment, the Mississippi Rifles, becoming its colonel. On July 21, 1846 they sailed from New Orleans for the Texas coast. Davis armed the regiment with percussion rifles and trained the regiment in their use, making it particularly effective in combat. In Septem ...
... seat in June, and raised a volunteer regiment, the Mississippi Rifles, becoming its colonel. On July 21, 1846 they sailed from New Orleans for the Texas coast. Davis armed the regiment with percussion rifles and trained the regiment in their use, making it particularly effective in combat. In Septem ...
Meeting paper Feb 2002 - Grant – the uncaring drunken butcher?
... integral to his generalship during the War. Grant was ordered to move against Confederate Colonel Thomas Harris, “…who was said to be encamped at the little town of Florida (Missouri) some twentyfive miles south…” of Grant’s force on the Salt River. On arriving at the enemy encampment Grant found it ...
... integral to his generalship during the War. Grant was ordered to move against Confederate Colonel Thomas Harris, “…who was said to be encamped at the little town of Florida (Missouri) some twentyfive miles south…” of Grant’s force on the Salt River. On arriving at the enemy encampment Grant found it ...
THE ORIGINS OF THE MISSISSIPPI MARINE BRIGADE: THE FIRST
... Pittsburg spotted the oncoming rebel ships, and cast off their moorings, attempted to build up steam and assist the Cincinnati and Mortar Boat 16. The crew on Mortar Boat 16 cut their fuses and powder charges as short as they could so that the shells would provide an airburst pattern directly over t ...
... Pittsburg spotted the oncoming rebel ships, and cast off their moorings, attempted to build up steam and assist the Cincinnati and Mortar Boat 16. The crew on Mortar Boat 16 cut their fuses and powder charges as short as they could so that the shells would provide an airburst pattern directly over t ...
TAV Chapter 11 Adv Org - Holdens
... killed or wounded. • Confederate troops led by General _______________ ______________ invaded Kentucky. ...
... killed or wounded. • Confederate troops led by General _______________ ______________ invaded Kentucky. ...
naylonMaurice - Georgetown University
... leave behind personal memoirs, their stated rationale must be questioned as self-serving. People seek to rationalize decisions with reasoning that represents personal biases. Furthermore, when first-hand accounts are not necessarily self-serving, biases still exist. In reporting on an event, accurac ...
... leave behind personal memoirs, their stated rationale must be questioned as self-serving. People seek to rationalize decisions with reasoning that represents personal biases. Furthermore, when first-hand accounts are not necessarily self-serving, biases still exist. In reporting on an event, accurac ...
Media as Weaponry: How Civil War Media Shaped Opinion and
... battle. The Sixteenth Connecticut was part of a flanking maneuver by the Union in which they crossed Antietam Creek, well south of the action, hoping to surprise the rebels on their flank. The regiment’s attack caught their counterparts off guard and was greeted with initial success, but after Confe ...
... battle. The Sixteenth Connecticut was part of a flanking maneuver by the Union in which they crossed Antietam Creek, well south of the action, hoping to surprise the rebels on their flank. The regiment’s attack caught their counterparts off guard and was greeted with initial success, but after Confe ...
Joshua L. Chamberlain
... many terrible scenes of warfare during his period of service in the Union Army. One of the worst of these battles took place at Fredericksburg, Virginia, where a large federal army under the command of General Ambrose Burnside (1824–1881; see entry) failed in its attempt to dislodge troops led by Ge ...
... many terrible scenes of warfare during his period of service in the Union Army. One of the worst of these battles took place at Fredericksburg, Virginia, where a large federal army under the command of General Ambrose Burnside (1824–1881; see entry) failed in its attempt to dislodge troops led by Ge ...
WORD - Teach Tennessee History
... Source: “June 28, 1861 - Tennessean Sam Tate, President of the Memphis to Charleston Railroad, to Robert Toombs Confederate States Secretary of State warning him about conditions in East Tennessee.” Civil War Sourcebook, Tennessee State Library and Archives, 2011. Web. 3 July, ...
... Source: “June 28, 1861 - Tennessean Sam Tate, President of the Memphis to Charleston Railroad, to Robert Toombs Confederate States Secretary of State warning him about conditions in East Tennessee.” Civil War Sourcebook, Tennessee State Library and Archives, 2011. Web. 3 July, ...
Secession in Tennessee, Hurst Nation, and the State of Scott Table
... Source: “June 28, 1861 - Tennessean Sam Tate, President of the Memphis to Charleston Railroad, to Robert Toombs Confederate States Secretary of State warning him about conditions in East Tennessee.” Civil War Sourcebook, Tennessee State Library and Archives, 2011. Web. 3 July, ...
... Source: “June 28, 1861 - Tennessean Sam Tate, President of the Memphis to Charleston Railroad, to Robert Toombs Confederate States Secretary of State warning him about conditions in East Tennessee.” Civil War Sourcebook, Tennessee State Library and Archives, 2011. Web. 3 July, ...
January 2011
... children, and grandparents into makeshift prisons and fed them nothing but bread and water until they disclosed information about Federal bushwhackers, called “Outliers.” Whether one agreed or not, his tactics were more successful than any others and netted some three hundred deserters. On January 2 ...
... children, and grandparents into makeshift prisons and fed them nothing but bread and water until they disclosed information about Federal bushwhackers, called “Outliers.” Whether one agreed or not, his tactics were more successful than any others and netted some three hundred deserters. On January 2 ...
McCLELLAN - National Paralegal College
... More Americans fell in two days than in all the battles of the Revolution, War of 1812, and Mexican American War combined Union losses exceeded 13,000 out of 63,000 engaged Confederates lost 10,699, including General Johnston Technology responsible for carnage More accurate and faster firi ...
... More Americans fell in two days than in all the battles of the Revolution, War of 1812, and Mexican American War combined Union losses exceeded 13,000 out of 63,000 engaged Confederates lost 10,699, including General Johnston Technology responsible for carnage More accurate and faster firi ...
How the Confederacy Came To Terms with the American Civil War
... This ideal stated that by behaving courageously and virtuously, God would protect a soldier from injury or death, and lead the soldier's cause to victory. Linderman posited that this idealistic concept of courage drove Northern and Southern men to join the Union and Confederate armies, march into ba ...
... This ideal stated that by behaving courageously and virtuously, God would protect a soldier from injury or death, and lead the soldier's cause to victory. Linderman posited that this idealistic concept of courage drove Northern and Southern men to join the Union and Confederate armies, march into ba ...
The Role Of Historic Novels in Understanding Desertion in the Civil
... “I will not refuse if called upon, to join the side espoused by Virginia. My hope and prayer is that the Union may be preserved! That Virginia may be on the side of union.”24 His motivations seem to be supporting his state over his country. This choice is not a surprise because after all, he had des ...
... “I will not refuse if called upon, to join the side espoused by Virginia. My hope and prayer is that the Union may be preserved! That Virginia may be on the side of union.”24 His motivations seem to be supporting his state over his country. This choice is not a surprise because after all, he had des ...
Vermont in the Civil War
... the Sixth Corps west of Petersburg facing what was believed to be a weak point in the ...
... the Sixth Corps west of Petersburg facing what was believed to be a weak point in the ...
The Collapse of the Confederacy: Class Dissent, Unionism, and
... to enter the Confederate Army. To many the Conscription Act was a slight on the "honor" of Southern men. By being forced into military service it was almost as if the Confederate government was calling all those who did not volunteer in 1 86 1 cowards, and in Southern "honor" culture these men had t ...
... to enter the Confederate Army. To many the Conscription Act was a slight on the "honor" of Southern men. By being forced into military service it was almost as if the Confederate government was calling all those who did not volunteer in 1 86 1 cowards, and in Southern "honor" culture these men had t ...
Second Battle of Corinth
The Second Battle of Corinth (which, in the context of the American Civil War, is usually referred to as the Battle of Corinth, to differentiate it from the Siege of Corinth earlier the same year) was fought October 3–4, 1862, in Corinth, Mississippi. For the second time in the Iuka-Corinth Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans defeated a Confederate army, this time one under Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn.After the Battle of Iuka, Maj. Gen. Sterling Price marched his army to meet with Van Dorn's. The combined force, under the command of the more senior Van Dorn, moved in the direction of Corinth, a critical rail junction in northern Mississippi, hoping to disrupt Union lines of communications and then sweep into Middle Tennessee. The fighting began on October 3 as the Confederates pushed the Federal army from the rifle pits originally constructed by the Confederates for the Siege of Corinth. The Confederates exploited a gap in the Union line and continued to press the Union troops until they fell back to an inner line of fortifications.On the second day of battle, the Confederates moved forward to meet heavy Union artillery fire, storming Battery Powell and Battery Robinett, where desperate hand-to-hand fighting occurred. A brief incursion into the town of Corinth was repulsed. After a Federal counterattack recaptured Battery Powell, Van Dorn ordered a general retreat. Rosecrans did not pursue immediately and the Confederates escaped destruction.