a strong mind: a clausewitzian biography of u
... fellow graduates from West Point. A few of Grant’s fellows saw through the façade. Confederate General R. S. Ewell knew Grant from West Point and Mexico and hoped the North would overlook Sam Grant: “I should fear him more than any of their officers.” Later in the war James Longstreet took issue wit ...
... fellow graduates from West Point. A few of Grant’s fellows saw through the façade. Confederate General R. S. Ewell knew Grant from West Point and Mexico and hoped the North would overlook Sam Grant: “I should fear him more than any of their officers.” Later in the war James Longstreet took issue wit ...
Yazoo County Civil War History - Visit Yazoo County, Mississippi
... Richard A. Barkley, who told him that Lieutenant General Ambrose P. Hill had just reached Jackson with heavy reinforcements from the battle-hardened Army of North Virginia. Between them, General Johnston and General Hill were reported to have 45,000 men in Central Mississippi. General Blair, neverth ...
... Richard A. Barkley, who told him that Lieutenant General Ambrose P. Hill had just reached Jackson with heavy reinforcements from the battle-hardened Army of North Virginia. Between them, General Johnston and General Hill were reported to have 45,000 men in Central Mississippi. General Blair, neverth ...
TAV Chapter 11 Adv Org - Holdens
... rebellion after January 1, 1863. • The Emancipation Proclamation changed the Civil War from a conflict over preserving the Union to a war to _______________ _______________ _______________. (pages 363) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. ...
... rebellion after January 1, 1863. • The Emancipation Proclamation changed the Civil War from a conflict over preserving the Union to a war to _______________ _______________ _______________. (pages 363) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. ...
Knud Otterson - Battle of Nashville Preservation Society
... river city of Vicksburg and was wounded at nearby Richmond, Louisiana. In 2012 we visited the Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee /Corinth, Mississippi area where Knud saw his first action in the Army of the Mississippi as it maneuvered to capture the railroad town of Corinth, Mississippi. We also obtained ...
... river city of Vicksburg and was wounded at nearby Richmond, Louisiana. In 2012 we visited the Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee /Corinth, Mississippi area where Knud saw his first action in the Army of the Mississippi as it maneuvered to capture the railroad town of Corinth, Mississippi. We also obtained ...
Meeting paper Feb 2002 - Grant – the uncaring drunken butcher?
... This paper has been prepared as the basis for a presentation to the New South Wales Chapter of the American Civil War Round Table of Australia and will be given at one of its regular meetings in 2002. The paper seeks to examine the life of General Ulysses S Grant including bringing together of a nu ...
... This paper has been prepared as the basis for a presentation to the New South Wales Chapter of the American Civil War Round Table of Australia and will be given at one of its regular meetings in 2002. The paper seeks to examine the life of General Ulysses S Grant including bringing together of a nu ...
Knud Otterson - Battle of Nashville Preservation Society
... enemy driving them out of Corinth into eventual defeat. execution of the volleys poured They were credited with making victory at Corinth into it, the confused mass of the possible. enemy halted and fell back, closely pressed by the Fifth Regiment” General L. F. Hubbard ...
... enemy driving them out of Corinth into eventual defeat. execution of the volleys poured They were credited with making victory at Corinth into it, the confused mass of the possible. enemy halted and fell back, closely pressed by the Fifth Regiment” General L. F. Hubbard ...
THE ORIGINS OF THE MISSISSIPPI MARINE BRIGADE: THE FIRST
... action that prompted the rebel forces to withdraw from Plum Run Bend and back to the Fort Pillow area. At Fort Pillow, the rebels had constructed extensive fortifications. Situated on a high bluff, the Confederates had erected breastworks five miles long with cannons positioned in a tier format from ...
... action that prompted the rebel forces to withdraw from Plum Run Bend and back to the Fort Pillow area. At Fort Pillow, the rebels had constructed extensive fortifications. Situated on a high bluff, the Confederates had erected breastworks five miles long with cannons positioned in a tier format from ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of History of the United States
... Attitude just after War.--Toward Negroes.--XIVth Amendment.--Rejected by Southern States.--Iron Law of 1867.--Carried through.--Antagonism between President Johnson and Congress.--Attempt to Impeach Johnson.--Fails. ...
... Attitude just after War.--Toward Negroes.--XIVth Amendment.--Rejected by Southern States.--Iron Law of 1867.--Carried through.--Antagonism between President Johnson and Congress.--Attempt to Impeach Johnson.--Fails. ...
22676-doc - Project Gutenberg
... Attitude just after War.--Toward Negroes.--XIVth Amendment.--Rejected by Southern States.--Iron Law of 1867.--Carried through.--Antagonism between President Johnson and Congress.--Attempt to Impeach Johnson.--Fails. ...
... Attitude just after War.--Toward Negroes.--XIVth Amendment.--Rejected by Southern States.--Iron Law of 1867.--Carried through.--Antagonism between President Johnson and Congress.--Attempt to Impeach Johnson.--Fails. ...
Ulysses S. Grant and the Meaning of Appomattox
... 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 northern prison camps. The fate of the captives at Donelson posed a logistical ...
... 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 northern prison camps. The fate of the captives at Donelson posed a logistical ...
Untitled - TCU Digital Repository
... guerilla resistance, Federal forces adopted measures that actively encouraged commanders to forage for supplies off the occupied countryside and severely increased retributions for guerilla activity. The earliest evidence of a more forceful treatment of secessionist sympathizers occurred in the Tra ...
... guerilla resistance, Federal forces adopted measures that actively encouraged commanders to forage for supplies off the occupied countryside and severely increased retributions for guerilla activity. The earliest evidence of a more forceful treatment of secessionist sympathizers occurred in the Tra ...
the civil war comes to yazoo - 1862
... 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 landed on a Union target. The Arkansas docked at Vicksb ...
... 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 landed on a Union target. The Arkansas docked at Vicksb ...
The Cost of War - Newspaper In Education
... battles such as Shiloh, Second Manassas, Antietam and Gettysburg, or in the feverridden hospitals that were more dangerous than any battlefield. It is nearly impossible to put a modern perspective on the level of suffering and loss in a conflict that is too often romanticized, or play-acted before c ...
... battles such as Shiloh, Second Manassas, Antietam and Gettysburg, or in the feverridden hospitals that were more dangerous than any battlefield. It is nearly impossible to put a modern perspective on the level of suffering and loss in a conflict that is too often romanticized, or play-acted before c ...
The American Civil War`s Western Theater Part 01
... In other words, the Rebels had to give up everything. Confederate General Simon Bolivar Bucker (right) expected good terms from Grant. They were friends in the United States Army before the war. When Grant was told he had to resign his army commission in 1854 because of alcoholism, Buckner loaned Gr ...
... In other words, the Rebels had to give up everything. Confederate General Simon Bolivar Bucker (right) expected good terms from Grant. They were friends in the United States Army before the war. When Grant was told he had to resign his army commission in 1854 because of alcoholism, Buckner loaned Gr ...
LEQ: Of what Union general did President Lincoln
... to resign his army commission in 1854 because of alcoholism, Buckner loaned Grant the money to return home. The image on the left shows Ulysses S. Grant as a Brigadier General in 1861. It is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The image of Simon Bolivar Bucker was taken circa 1863. This image is courtesy ...
... to resign his army commission in 1854 because of alcoholism, Buckner loaned Grant the money to return home. The image on the left shows Ulysses S. Grant as a Brigadier General in 1861. It is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The image of Simon Bolivar Bucker was taken circa 1863. This image is courtesy ...
160 Spring 2011 - American Civil War Society
... July, and even the second assault on 18th July. In the spring of 1864, the 3rd were allocated to X Corps – the Army of the James and found service in Virginia. They were at the battle of Drewry’s Bluff 10th May 1864 and later on, on the 16th August, at Deep Bottom, after which they were most likely ...
... July, and even the second assault on 18th July. In the spring of 1864, the 3rd were allocated to X Corps – the Army of the James and found service in Virginia. They were at the battle of Drewry’s Bluff 10th May 1864 and later on, on the 16th August, at Deep Bottom, after which they were most likely ...
columbus: the gibraltar of the west
... hazards" when the opportune moment arrived 3 By late August Polk was very concerned about Columbus because Of the threatening movement of Federal troops in that area. On September 1, Federal General Robert Anderson moved his headquarters from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Louisville, Kentucky. William Nelson ...
... hazards" when the opportune moment arrived 3 By late August Polk was very concerned about Columbus because Of the threatening movement of Federal troops in that area. On September 1, Federal General Robert Anderson moved his headquarters from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Louisville, Kentucky. William Nelson ...
Notes on the Civil War - Garrett Academy Of Technology
... Defend, defend, defend – hold out until the North gives up King Cotton Diplomacy – withhold cotton vital for Great Britian’s and France’s economy until they agreed to recognize the CSA, declare the Union blockade illegal, and assist the CSA in the war effort – ultimately a failure – GB and France we ...
... Defend, defend, defend – hold out until the North gives up King Cotton Diplomacy – withhold cotton vital for Great Britian’s and France’s economy until they agreed to recognize the CSA, declare the Union blockade illegal, and assist the CSA in the war effort – ultimately a failure – GB and France we ...
March 2001 - American Civil War Roundtable of Australia
... reach Nashville. In the snowstorm the Confederates moved out of the fort and drove back the surrounding Union troops. Having achieved this breakout, General Pillow suddenly lost his nerve and prevailed on his fellow generals, Floyd and Buckner, to call off the escape bid and return to the fort. Floy ...
... reach Nashville. In the snowstorm the Confederates moved out of the fort and drove back the surrounding Union troops. Having achieved this breakout, General Pillow suddenly lost his nerve and prevailed on his fellow generals, Floyd and Buckner, to call off the escape bid and return to the fort. Floy ...
`Let Us Have Peace`: Remembering General Ulysses S Grant
... Grant is the most unlikely of military heroes—a great general who disliked West Point and rejected the peacetime Army. “If I could have escaped West Point without bringing myself into disgrace at home, I would have done so,” Grant wrote in his memoirs. “A military life had no charms for me, and I ha ...
... Grant is the most unlikely of military heroes—a great general who disliked West Point and rejected the peacetime Army. “If I could have escaped West Point without bringing myself into disgrace at home, I would have done so,” Grant wrote in his memoirs. “A military life had no charms for me, and I ha ...
Remembering General Ulysses S. Grant
... Grant is the most unlikely of military heroes—a great general who disliked West Point and rejected the peacetime Army. “If I could have escaped West Point without bringing myself into disgrace at home, I would have done so,” Grant wrote in his memoirs. “A military life had no charms for me, and I ha ...
... Grant is the most unlikely of military heroes—a great general who disliked West Point and rejected the peacetime Army. “If I could have escaped West Point without bringing myself into disgrace at home, I would have done so,” Grant wrote in his memoirs. “A military life had no charms for me, and I ha ...
LEQ: What important battle in the West was
... Then Grant turned and fought his way back west to the outskirts of Vicksburg. ...
... Then Grant turned and fought his way back west to the outskirts of Vicksburg. ...
Waul`s Texas Legion: Towards Vicksburg
... from Holly Springs and forty miles south of Memphis, to join with the army encamped there.15 The next day, General Rosencrans received a missive from General William T. Sherman congratulating him on his victory at Corinth. In this letter, Sherman warned Rosencrans that through his sources he had lea ...
... from Holly Springs and forty miles south of Memphis, to join with the army encamped there.15 The next day, General Rosencrans received a missive from General William T. Sherman congratulating him on his victory at Corinth. In this letter, Sherman warned Rosencrans that through his sources he had lea ...
The Wilderness of War - The Forest History Society
... EnvironmentalView,"was the first to examine the CivilWar(or any war) from a strictly environmentalpoint of view. His purpose was not to providea definitive history of that conflict, but ratherto suggest a variety of issues in need of study. EdmundRussell's path-breakingwork, Warand Nature: Fighting ...
... EnvironmentalView,"was the first to examine the CivilWar(or any war) from a strictly environmentalpoint of view. His purpose was not to providea definitive history of that conflict, but ratherto suggest a variety of issues in need of study. EdmundRussell's path-breakingwork, Warand Nature: Fighting ...
Episode 3, 2006: Vicksburg Map Tucson, Arizona
... bloodbath. Two years into the war, Confederate states have the Union army on the run. To take the upper hand, Lincoln and his generals realize they must first seize control of the Mississippi River and cut the rebel supply lines. To sever this Confederate artery, the Union forces will have to crush ...
... bloodbath. Two years into the war, Confederate states have the Union army on the run. To take the upper hand, Lincoln and his generals realize they must first seize control of the Mississippi River and cut the rebel supply lines. To sever this Confederate artery, the Union forces will have to crush ...
Siege of Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Mississippi led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.Vicksburg was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River; therefore, capturing it completed the second part of the Northern strategy, the Anaconda Plan. When two major assaults (May 19 and 22, 1863) against the Confederate fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25. With no reinforcement, supplies nearly gone, and after holding out for more than forty days, the garrison finally surrendered on July 4.The successful ending of the Vicksburg Campaign significantly degraded the ability of the Confederacy to maintain its war effort, as described in the Aftermath section of the campaign article. Some historians—e.g., Ballard, p. 308—suggest that the decisive battle in the campaign was actually the Battle of Champion Hill, which, once won by Grant, made victory in the subsequent siege a foregone conclusion. This action (combined with the surrender of Port Hudson to Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks on July 9) yielded command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces, who would hold it for the rest of the conflict.The Confederate surrender following the siege at Vicksburg is sometimes considered, when combined with Gen. Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade the previous day, the turning point of the war. It cut off the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas from the rest of the Confederacy, as well as communication with Confederate forces in the Trans-Mississippi Department for the remainder of the war.