- Cornerstone - Minnesota State University, Mankato
... this magnitude. The loss of Chattanooga meant the loss of railroads and manufacturing, which the South could not afford to lose more of. If Bragg and his men had stopped Rosecrans and his army, the Confederacy would have been able to hold on for longer. When the Army of Tennessee retreated back into ...
... this magnitude. The loss of Chattanooga meant the loss of railroads and manufacturing, which the South could not afford to lose more of. If Bragg and his men had stopped Rosecrans and his army, the Confederacy would have been able to hold on for longer. When the Army of Tennessee retreated back into ...
Knud Otterson - Battle of Nashville Preservation Society
... exists. Corinth is a sprawling city extending from the original town which was rebuilt after the war. The Mississippi River has even changed course dramatically in several places including at Vicksburg. There is very little record of Knud’s experiences. Our trips and research were remote attempts to ...
... exists. Corinth is a sprawling city extending from the original town which was rebuilt after the war. The Mississippi River has even changed course dramatically in several places including at Vicksburg. There is very little record of Knud’s experiences. Our trips and research were remote attempts to ...
THESIS CONFEDERATE MILITARY STRATEGY
... will also highlight the mentality and objective of Confederate generals. Confederate strategy was not universal. In fact, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Lee shared the same military mentality in swift, aggressive movements to defeat the Union army in Virginia as quickly as possib ...
... will also highlight the mentality and objective of Confederate generals. Confederate strategy was not universal. In fact, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Lee shared the same military mentality in swift, aggressive movements to defeat the Union army in Virginia as quickly as possib ...
Harriet Tubman: Civil War Spy
... Harriet Tubman is well known for risking her life as a “conductor” in the Underground Railroad, which led escaped slaves to freedom in the North. But did you know that the former slave also served as a spy for the Union during the Civil War and was the first woman in American history to lead a milit ...
... Harriet Tubman is well known for risking her life as a “conductor” in the Underground Railroad, which led escaped slaves to freedom in the North. But did you know that the former slave also served as a spy for the Union during the Civil War and was the first woman in American history to lead a milit ...
In August 1864, Union General Eleazar A. Paine expelled a number
... Jorge membership. Blue 1s seen infrequently. The neutrality of Kentucky came to an end early in September, 1861. A new
... Jorge membership. Blue 1s seen infrequently. The neutrality of Kentucky came to an end early in September, 1861. A new
The Role Of Historic Novels in Understanding Desertion in the Civil
... statistics mean over 5% of the Union Army deserted, most historians have come to believe that the desertion rate in the Union Army was much higher, as high as 9.6%.5 For the Confederate army the statistics are even higher, with just fewer than 15% of the Confederate Army deserting.6 With such high p ...
... statistics mean over 5% of the Union Army deserted, most historians have come to believe that the desertion rate in the Union Army was much higher, as high as 9.6%.5 For the Confederate army the statistics are even higher, with just fewer than 15% of the Confederate Army deserting.6 With such high p ...
Florida`s Civil War soldiers - Scholar Commons
... during the Civil War, both within and without Florida. As there has not been a great deal written on this topic, it is hoped that this thesis will contribute to the discussion and perhaps lead others to study this field. The soldiers of Florida during the Civil War deserve the same attention given t ...
... during the Civil War, both within and without Florida. As there has not been a great deal written on this topic, it is hoped that this thesis will contribute to the discussion and perhaps lead others to study this field. The soldiers of Florida during the Civil War deserve the same attention given t ...
the politics of command in the fort
... than that of the army. Though Robinson‟s work is the deepest analysis of personal politics on Union command structure in the Fort Fisher campaign, it still does not go far enough. ...
... than that of the army. Though Robinson‟s work is the deepest analysis of personal politics on Union command structure in the Fort Fisher campaign, it still does not go far enough. ...
"Young Bloods of the South:" The Confederate Use and Efficacy of
... to pursue this kind of war, even if they disagree with him that it could have achieved victory. Thus Gary Gallagher argues that nineteenth-century southern society would not agree to this strategy. Guerrilla warfare was repugnant to many citizens and soldiers on both sides, because it was seen as un ...
... to pursue this kind of war, even if they disagree with him that it could have achieved victory. Thus Gary Gallagher argues that nineteenth-century southern society would not agree to this strategy. Guerrilla warfare was repugnant to many citizens and soldiers on both sides, because it was seen as un ...
The Italian Unification and the American Civil War
... that movement that drove his behavior. To understand why Pius IX acted the way he did, we must look at the context of the Italian Unification, how it affected the Pope’s priorities and how America’s association with that movement drove the Pope away from the Union. America clearly chose to support t ...
... that movement that drove his behavior. To understand why Pius IX acted the way he did, we must look at the context of the Italian Unification, how it affected the Pope’s priorities and how America’s association with that movement drove the Pope away from the Union. America clearly chose to support t ...
THE POPE AND THE PRESIDENTS: THE ITALIAN UNIFICATION
... that movement that drove his behavior. To understand why Pius IX acted the way he did, we must look at the context of the Italian Unification, how it affected the Pope’s priorities and how America’s association with that movement drove the Pope away from the Union. America clearly chose to support t ...
... that movement that drove his behavior. To understand why Pius IX acted the way he did, we must look at the context of the Italian Unification, how it affected the Pope’s priorities and how America’s association with that movement drove the Pope away from the Union. America clearly chose to support t ...
Yazoo County Civil War History - Visit Yazoo County, Mississippi
... the ramming and dug its bow into the river bank where shore batteries gave it a tough time until it could back off and steam away at full speed. Next the Queen of the West, which had followed the Arkansas down river, tried to ram, but a well-placed broadside from the Arkansas disabled her and she wa ...
... the ramming and dug its bow into the river bank where shore batteries gave it a tough time until it could back off and steam away at full speed. Next the Queen of the West, which had followed the Arkansas down river, tried to ram, but a well-placed broadside from the Arkansas disabled her and she wa ...
Guide to the Henry L. Sholts (38th Iowa Regiment) Letters [1861
... mustered into Company C, 38th Iowa Volunteer Regiment with the rank of first corporal September 12, 1862. During his service in the Civil War, Sholts was stationed in Dubuque, Iowa; New Madrid, Missouri; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Brownsville, Texas. Sholts and the 38th Iowa were involved in the ba ...
... mustered into Company C, 38th Iowa Volunteer Regiment with the rank of first corporal September 12, 1862. During his service in the Civil War, Sholts was stationed in Dubuque, Iowa; New Madrid, Missouri; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Brownsville, Texas. Sholts and the 38th Iowa were involved in the ba ...
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 ...
Untitled - TCU Digital Repository
... New Orleans overseen by Major General Benjamin F. Butler. For two weeks in late June and early July 1862, the Union Army of the Southwest under Brigadier General Samuel R. Curtis marched across eastern Arkansas without a formal supply base and survived by foraging off the civilian population. Curtis ...
... New Orleans overseen by Major General Benjamin F. Butler. For two weeks in late June and early July 1862, the Union Army of the Southwest under Brigadier General Samuel R. Curtis marched across eastern Arkansas without a formal supply base and survived by foraging off the civilian population. Curtis ...
the ideologies and allegiances of Civil War soldiers in
... wealthy southern elites had begun by walking for thirteen days and nights through Confederate lines to enlist as a private in the Union Army in Kentucky. His war also would end before Appomattox after his capture at Rogersville, Tennessee, in the fall of 1863, and his death at Andersonville Prison o ...
... wealthy southern elites had begun by walking for thirteen days and nights through Confederate lines to enlist as a private in the Union Army in Kentucky. His war also would end before Appomattox after his capture at Rogersville, Tennessee, in the fall of 1863, and his death at Andersonville Prison o ...
A Nation at War, 1861-1865
... were skilled horsemen and often raided the countryside at night and did not have uniforms to avoid being caught. o Because Henry was not old enough to enlist without parental permission, he snuck out of the house after everyone had already gone to sleep. Served with four other boys from Scottsvill ...
... were skilled horsemen and often raided the countryside at night and did not have uniforms to avoid being caught. o Because Henry was not old enough to enlist without parental permission, he snuck out of the house after everyone had already gone to sleep. Served with four other boys from Scottsvill ...
Joshua L. Chamberlain
... Battle of Gettysburg In the summer of 1863, the Twentieth Maine and the rest of the Army of the Potomac marched into Pennsylvania to stop an invading Confederate force led by General Robert E. Lee (1807–1870; see entry). Lee hoped that by bringing the war into the Northern states, he could capture U ...
... Battle of Gettysburg In the summer of 1863, the Twentieth Maine and the rest of the Army of the Potomac marched into Pennsylvania to stop an invading Confederate force led by General Robert E. Lee (1807–1870; see entry). Lee hoped that by bringing the war into the Northern states, he could capture U ...
Antietam and Emancipation
... SUMMARY: In September 1862, Confederate general Robert E. Lee left the South and moved his army into Maryland. No one could be sure exactly what he planned to do, but in an incredible stroke of luck, a copy of Lee’s plans (which had been wrapped around three cigars) was discovered by Union soldiers ...
... SUMMARY: In September 1862, Confederate general Robert E. Lee left the South and moved his army into Maryland. No one could be sure exactly what he planned to do, but in an incredible stroke of luck, a copy of Lee’s plans (which had been wrapped around three cigars) was discovered by Union soldiers ...
Knud Otterson - Battle of Nashville Preservation Society
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
A Public History Project Atblakeley Historic Park, Alabama
... Six hours after General Robert E. Lee formally surrendered the Army of 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 Ten ...
... Six hours after General Robert E. Lee formally surrendered the Army of 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 Ten ...
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... Six hours after General Robert E. Lee formally surrendered the Army of 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 Ten ...
... Six hours after General Robert E. Lee formally surrendered the Army of 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 Ten ...
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... to Confederate President Davis, General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Grant.17 Davis felt as long as he could keep the government operating, rally troops and avoid capture the Confederacy still had a chance. Moving the government proved difficult as the Union forces began ...
... to Confederate President Davis, General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Grant.17 Davis felt as long as he could keep the government operating, rally troops and avoid capture the Confederacy still had a chance. Moving the government proved difficult as the Union forces began ...
History of the American Flag
... • In 1834, congress authorized used of Guidons as a way to detemine units • Calvary Units, the army scouts used a swallowtail shaped flag with a Red top and White bottom. With both the Union and Confederate Calvary deriving it’s military tradions from the antebellum US Army, both sides used red and ...
... • In 1834, congress authorized used of Guidons as a way to detemine units • Calvary Units, the army scouts used a swallowtail shaped flag with a Red top and White bottom. With both the Union and Confederate Calvary deriving it’s military tradions from the antebellum US Army, both sides used red and ...
Sabine Pass in the Civil War
... In extreme Southeast Texas, where the confluence of the Sabine-NechesAngelina waterways meets the sea, lies historic Sabine Pass. The decade before the Civil War witnessed the beginnings of an export commerce there that would eventually rank it, for a time, as the second-largest seaport on the Texas ...
... In extreme Southeast Texas, where the confluence of the Sabine-NechesAngelina waterways meets the sea, lies historic Sabine Pass. The decade before the Civil War witnessed the beginnings of an export commerce there that would eventually rank it, for a time, as the second-largest seaport on the Texas ...
Battle of Island Number Ten
The Battle of Island Number Ten was an engagement at the New Madrid or Kentucky Bend on the Mississippi River during the American Civil War, lasting from February 28 to April 8, 1862. The position, an island at the base of a tight double turn in the course of the river, was held by the Confederates from the early days of the war. It was an excellent site to impede Union efforts to invade the South along the river, as vessels would have to approach the island bows on and then slow down to make the turns. For the defenders, it also had an innate weakness in that it depended on a single road for supplies and reinforcements, so that if an enemy force could cut that road, the garrison would be trapped.Union forces began the siege shortly after the Confederate Army abandoned their position at Columbus, Kentucky, in early March 1862. The first probes were made by the Union Army of the Mississippi under Brigadier General John Pope, which came overland through Missouri and occupied the town of Point Pleasant, Missouri, almost directly west of the island and south of New Madrid. From there, the Union army moved north and soon brought siege guns to bear on New Madrid. The Confederate commander, Brig. Gen. John P. McCown, decided to evacuate the town after enduring only one day of bombardment, removing most of his soldiers to Island No. 10 but abandoning much of his equipment, including his heavy artillery.Two days after the fall of New Madrid, Union gunboats and mortar rafts came down to attack Island No. 10 from the river. For the next three weeks, the defenders on the island and in nearby supporting batteries were subjected to bombardment by the vessels, mostly carried out by the mortars. While this was going on, the army at New Madrid was digging a canal across the neck of land to the east of the town; several transports were sent to the Army of the Mississippi by way of the canal when it was finished, providing the army with the means of crossing the river and attacking the Confederate troops on the Tennessee side.Pope persuaded Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote to send a gunboat past the batteries, to aid him in the river crossing by warding off any Southern gunboats, and by suppressing Rebel artillery fire at the point of attack. This was accomplished by USS Carondelet, under Commander Henry Walke, on the night of April 4, 1862. This was followed by USS Pittsburg, under Lieutenant Egbert Thompson two nights later. With the support of these two gunboats, Pope was able to send his army across the river and trap the Confederates who were trying to flee. Outnumbered at least three to one, they felt their cause was hopeless, and decided to surrender.At about the same time, the garrison who had remained at the island decided that resistance was futile for them as well, so they surrendered to Flag Officer Foote and the Union flotilla.The Union victory marked the first time the Confederate Army lost a position on the Mississippi River in battle. The river was then open to the Union Navy as far as Fort Pillow, a short distance above Memphis. Only three weeks later, New Orleans fell to the Union fleet led by David G. Farragut, and the Confederacy was in danger of being cut in two along the line of the river.