Adolphus Heiman, a Brief Biography Ft. Heiman, Calloway County
... Tennessee who commanded the 1,100 troops at the fort - on the bluffs on the west bank (Kentucky side of the river. The new fort remained under construction when Union Brig. Ulysses S. Grant launched his offensive against Forts Henry and Donelson in early February 1862. On February 4-5, 1862, Grant l ...
... Tennessee who commanded the 1,100 troops at the fort - on the bluffs on the west bank (Kentucky side of the river. The new fort remained under construction when Union Brig. Ulysses S. Grant launched his offensive against Forts Henry and Donelson in early February 1862. On February 4-5, 1862, Grant l ...
War is Hell
... Through GMT’s Rebel Raiders on The High Seas Game Introduction: This narrative is intended for reading with the latest Rebel Raiders on the High Seas (Rebel Raiders) Play Test map. Hopefully, experienced gamers will be able to follow the game’s exciting action and appreciate how Rebel Raiders’ depic ...
... Through GMT’s Rebel Raiders on The High Seas Game Introduction: This narrative is intended for reading with the latest Rebel Raiders on the High Seas (Rebel Raiders) Play Test map. Hopefully, experienced gamers will be able to follow the game’s exciting action and appreciate how Rebel Raiders’ depic ...
1863: Shifting Tides
... Union soldiers who fought and died in the Battle of Gettysburg. In the address, Lincoln expressed the great need for Americans to remember the sacrifice made by these soldiers. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated ...
... Union soldiers who fought and died in the Battle of Gettysburg. In the address, Lincoln expressed the great need for Americans to remember the sacrifice made by these soldiers. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated ...
World Book® Online: American Civil War: Biographies
... 29. The 54th Massachusetts Volunteers were the first black troops from a free state to be organized for combat in the Union Army. 30. Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest led a cavalry raid as far north as Paducah, Kentucky, in 1864. 31. Answers will vary. Possible answers include: 1. Lee grad ...
... 29. The 54th Massachusetts Volunteers were the first black troops from a free state to be organized for combat in the Union Army. 30. Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest led a cavalry raid as far north as Paducah, Kentucky, in 1864. 31. Answers will vary. Possible answers include: 1. Lee grad ...
A Year in the Civil War
... 5. Who won at Kennisaw Mountain? 6. Why did President Jefferson Davis replace Johnston with Hood? 7. What was Sherman’s strategy for defeating Hood? 8. How did Sherman take Atlanta? 9. What did Sherman do while in Atlanta? 10. Why did Sherman cut his supply lines as his soldiers moved east? 11. How ...
... 5. Who won at Kennisaw Mountain? 6. Why did President Jefferson Davis replace Johnston with Hood? 7. What was Sherman’s strategy for defeating Hood? 8. How did Sherman take Atlanta? 9. What did Sherman do while in Atlanta? 10. Why did Sherman cut his supply lines as his soldiers moved east? 11. How ...
Alabama Civil War Trail
... Confederate war dead. The National Cemetery section is the resting place for Union soldiers who fell during the Battle of Fort Blakeley, including African-American soldiers from Gen. Hawkins’ 1st Division. ...
... Confederate war dead. The National Cemetery section is the resting place for Union soldiers who fell during the Battle of Fort Blakeley, including African-American soldiers from Gen. Hawkins’ 1st Division. ...
1863: Shifting Tides
... Union soldiers who fought and died in the Battle of Gettysburg. In the address, Lincoln expressed the great need for Americans to remember the sacrifice made by these soldiers. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated ...
... Union soldiers who fought and died in the Battle of Gettysburg. In the address, Lincoln expressed the great need for Americans to remember the sacrifice made by these soldiers. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated ...
1863: The Turning Point in The Civil War
... The Union surrounded Vicksburg and tried to control it for some time but the Confederates held their ground The Confederates were low on ammunition, food, and water and were all going to starve. On July 3rd John C. Pemberton received a letter from his soldiers saying if he couldn’t feed them, he sho ...
... The Union surrounded Vicksburg and tried to control it for some time but the Confederates held their ground The Confederates were low on ammunition, food, and water and were all going to starve. On July 3rd John C. Pemberton received a letter from his soldiers saying if he couldn’t feed them, he sho ...
Chapter 8_Civil War Reconciliation
... South was at that point unable to continue the war in the same style as before, with large bodies of men in the tens of thousands, set piece battles, and defense of fixed positions and large amounts of territory. None of the top Southern commanders believed that further conventional fighting would p ...
... South was at that point unable to continue the war in the same style as before, with large bodies of men in the tens of thousands, set piece battles, and defense of fixed positions and large amounts of territory. None of the top Southern commanders believed that further conventional fighting would p ...
columbus: the gibraltar of the west
... commanding general, John C. Fremont, suggesting that " if a demonstration was made from Paducah towards Union City, supported by ... gunboats, and a force moving upon Belmont, the enemy would be forced to leave Columbus. "8 Fremont made no reply to this, but when he began offensive operations, march ...
... commanding general, John C. Fremont, suggesting that " if a demonstration was made from Paducah towards Union City, supported by ... gunboats, and a force moving upon Belmont, the enemy would be forced to leave Columbus. "8 Fremont made no reply to this, but when he began offensive operations, march ...
Fall 2013 - Psi Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon at the University of
... entitled Vicksburg: Southern City under Siege. This historical gem presents a unique opportunity to share the combat experiences of one of our DKE brothers, in his own words, as those experiences unfolded. I’ve read countless books, articles, and other accounts of the Civil War, but Foster’s letter ...
... entitled Vicksburg: Southern City under Siege. This historical gem presents a unique opportunity to share the combat experiences of one of our DKE brothers, in his own words, as those experiences unfolded. I’ve read countless books, articles, and other accounts of the Civil War, but Foster’s letter ...
The Georgia Studies Book- Chapter 13 (The Civil War)
... Lincoln also declared a naval blockade of the South. The U.S. Navy would prevent all ships from entering or leaving southern ports. Other southern states now were forced to choose sides. That was one of the goals of Jefferson Davis in ordering the firing on Fort Sumter. Virginia, Arkansas, North Caro ...
... Lincoln also declared a naval blockade of the South. The U.S. Navy would prevent all ships from entering or leaving southern ports. Other southern states now were forced to choose sides. That was one of the goals of Jefferson Davis in ordering the firing on Fort Sumter. Virginia, Arkansas, North Caro ...
gittin stuff - National Property Management Association
... identified a need for centralized management. The Quartermaster bureau, housed on Capitol Square in Richmond, swelled to a staff of eighty-eight clerks and one messenger, shuffling paperwork and attempting to keep up with the demands of the armies in the field.6 For months the Bureau had been troubl ...
... identified a need for centralized management. The Quartermaster bureau, housed on Capitol Square in Richmond, swelled to a staff of eighty-eight clerks and one messenger, shuffling paperwork and attempting to keep up with the demands of the armies in the field.6 For months the Bureau had been troubl ...
U.S. Civil War The U.S. Civil War, also called the War between the
... In the spring of 1864, Grant commanded the Army of the Potomac against Lee's forces in the Wilderness Campaign, a series of violent battles that took place in Virginia. Battles at Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor extracted heavy Union casualties, but Lee's smaller army was, as Grant had hoped, devastate ...
... In the spring of 1864, Grant commanded the Army of the Potomac against Lee's forces in the Wilderness Campaign, a series of violent battles that took place in Virginia. Battles at Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor extracted heavy Union casualties, but Lee's smaller army was, as Grant had hoped, devastate ...
January - b/g micah jenkins
... various directions in the process. On March 29, 1863, Grant ordered his Thirteenth and Seventeenth Corps to begin marching south on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River. Thirty-two days later, the leading elements of the Thirteenth Corps crossed the great river and landed unopposed at Bruinsb ...
... various directions in the process. On March 29, 1863, Grant ordered his Thirteenth and Seventeenth Corps to begin marching south on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River. Thirty-two days later, the leading elements of the Thirteenth Corps crossed the great river and landed unopposed at Bruinsb ...
Chapter Preview Chapter 16
... war. Although slavery and states’ rights had been the issues that led to the South’s secession, the immediate concern for Abraham Lincoln when he took office was not slavery, but keeping the United States together. He was not willing, however, to give in on the national government’s right to forbid sl ...
... war. Although slavery and states’ rights had been the issues that led to the South’s secession, the immediate concern for Abraham Lincoln when he took office was not slavery, but keeping the United States together. He was not willing, however, to give in on the national government’s right to forbid sl ...
March 2001 - American Civil War Roundtable of Australia
... outspoken contempt. His sense of responsibility was considered to be on a par with that of Floyd. The only real soldier in the fort was Brigadier General Simon Oliver Buckner, but his seniority placed him only third in the chain of command. Buckner had been a year behind Grant at West Point and the ...
... outspoken contempt. His sense of responsibility was considered to be on a par with that of Floyd. The only real soldier in the fort was Brigadier General Simon Oliver Buckner, but his seniority placed him only third in the chain of command. Buckner had been a year behind Grant at West Point and the ...
9. Secession, the EU, and Lessons from the U.S.
... South was at that point unable to continue the war in the same style as before, with large bodies of men in the tens of thousands, set piece battles, and defense of fixed positions and large amounts of territory. None of the top Southern commanders believed that further conventional fighting would p ...
... South was at that point unable to continue the war in the same style as before, with large bodies of men in the tens of thousands, set piece battles, and defense of fixed positions and large amounts of territory. None of the top Southern commanders believed that further conventional fighting would p ...
Ulysses S. Grant
... To win the Civil War, the Union needed to take control of the South, including all of its cities and roads. Nobody in the North expected this to be so difficult. The Union had more than a million men in uniform. 10 By the end of the Civil War, one out of every ten Union soldiers was African American ...
... To win the Civil War, the Union needed to take control of the South, including all of its cities and roads. Nobody in the North expected this to be so difficult. The Union had more than a million men in uniform. 10 By the end of the Civil War, one out of every ten Union soldiers was African American ...
Confederate Spies: Loreta Velazquez,Union Spies: Elizabeth Van
... bring food, clothing, writing paper, and other things to the Union soldiers imprisoned there. She aided prisoners in escape attempts, passing them information about safe houses and getting a Union sympathizer appointed to the prison staff. Prisoners would pass her military intelligence on Confederat ...
... bring food, clothing, writing paper, and other things to the Union soldiers imprisoned there. She aided prisoners in escape attempts, passing them information about safe houses and getting a Union sympathizer appointed to the prison staff. Prisoners would pass her military intelligence on Confederat ...
Civil War Strategy 1861-1865 Essay
... the Confederacy to Union penetration—particularly via the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers. Davis’s old friend, General Albert Sidney Johnston, assumed command of the bulk of Southern western forces on September 15, 1861. General Joseph E. Johnston controlled the most important Confederate troops in ...
... the Confederacy to Union penetration—particularly via the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers. Davis’s old friend, General Albert Sidney Johnston, assumed command of the bulk of Southern western forces on September 15, 1861. General Joseph E. Johnston controlled the most important Confederate troops in ...
Dudley on Lepa, `Vicksburg and Chattanooga: The Battles that
... during the Vicksburg Campaign are well documented, and the general displayed a degree of poor judgment and self-aggrandizement as early in the war as the Battle of Belmont. Following his description of the Vicksburg Campaign, which constitutes roughly two-thirds of the book, the author turns to the ...
... during the Vicksburg Campaign are well documented, and the general displayed a degree of poor judgment and self-aggrandizement as early in the war as the Battle of Belmont. Following his description of the Vicksburg Campaign, which constitutes roughly two-thirds of the book, the author turns to the ...
American Civil War Final
... The march started in Atlanta, GA and went to Savannah, GA. General Ulysses S. Grant said “I believe the only way for the South to surrender is if their strategic, economic, and physiological capacity for warfare were decisively broken.” Sherman took this quote to heart and destroyed everything in hi ...
... The march started in Atlanta, GA and went to Savannah, GA. General Ulysses S. Grant said “I believe the only way for the South to surrender is if their strategic, economic, and physiological capacity for warfare were decisively broken.” Sherman took this quote to heart and destroyed everything in hi ...
Western Theater of the American Civil War
The Western Theater of the American Civil War encompassed major military and naval operations in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee, as well as Louisiana east of the Mississippi River. (Operations on the coasts of the states, except for Mobile Bay, are considered part of the Lower Seaboard Theater.)The Western Theater was the avenue of military operations by Union armies, chief among them the Army of the Tennessee, directly into the agricultural heartland of the South via the major rivers of the region (the Mississippi, the Tennessee, and the Cumberland). The Confederacy was forced to defend an enormous area with limited resources. Union operations began with securing Kentucky in Union hands in June 1861. Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee had early successes in Kentucky and western Tennessee in 1861–1862, marched towards and captured Vicksburg in 1862–64, and combined with the armies of the Cumberland and of the Ohio, who had been working their way through central Tennessee in 1862–63, to capture Chattanooga in 1864. Chattanooga served as the launching point for Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, who was put in charge of the combined armies by Grant following his elevation by Abraham Lincoln to General-in-Chief in command over all operations in the Eastern Theater, to capture the Confederate rail hub of Atlanta and march to the Atlantic. Operations in theater concluded with the surrender of Southern forces to the Union army in North Carolina and Florida in May 1865 following General Robert E. Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House.