lew wallace and the civil war: politics and
... eventual enthusiastic abolitionism, along with his status as a Republican, affected his assignments as a general. Such a conversion made the political general an excellent candidate for administrator of the Middle Department, including the slave state of Maryland, later in the war. Wallace’s relatio ...
... eventual enthusiastic abolitionism, along with his status as a Republican, affected his assignments as a general. Such a conversion made the political general an excellent candidate for administrator of the Middle Department, including the slave state of Maryland, later in the war. Wallace’s relatio ...
the rise and fall of General George B. McClellan.
... Unites States Military Academy at West Point to gain a clearer picture of who was in the army at the start of hostilities. For comparative purposes, the chapter further delves into what was happening in the lives of two generals that would later lead the Union to victory, Ulysses S. Grant and Willia ...
... Unites States Military Academy at West Point to gain a clearer picture of who was in the army at the start of hostilities. For comparative purposes, the chapter further delves into what was happening in the lives of two generals that would later lead the Union to victory, Ulysses S. Grant and Willia ...
Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks
... Mobile Bay were blockaded by Union naval forces early in the Civil War. Mobile Bay was not permanently closed to blockade-runners until Adm. David G. Farragut’s fleet ran past Fort Morgan into Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, and defeated the Confederate Mobile fleet. Farragut’s force lost the monitor ...
... Mobile Bay were blockaded by Union naval forces early in the Civil War. Mobile Bay was not permanently closed to blockade-runners until Adm. David G. Farragut’s fleet ran past Fort Morgan into Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, and defeated the Confederate Mobile fleet. Farragut’s force lost the monitor ...
Battling Memory from Memphis: Elizabeth Avery
... upon postwar Southern attitudes toward Northerners in her 1916 memoir, Meriwether, as a Confederate wife and Lost Cause proponent, writes, I fear in those dark days just after the close of the war, hate was a feeling that came into many a Southern woman’s breast. The Southern men were too busy tryin ...
... upon postwar Southern attitudes toward Northerners in her 1916 memoir, Meriwether, as a Confederate wife and Lost Cause proponent, writes, I fear in those dark days just after the close of the war, hate was a feeling that came into many a Southern woman’s breast. The Southern men were too busy tryin ...
“NEARLY THERE:” DANIEL HARVEY HILL, PROPONENT AND
... “Yankee” editorials just as he had done in writing a decade before in his own publication. The same day, however, he asked his second son Harvey if he had telegraphed his youngest son Joseph, because the old general thought he was shortly going to die. Hill also calmly asked his daughter Nancy to wa ...
... “Yankee” editorials just as he had done in writing a decade before in his own publication. The same day, however, he asked his second son Harvey if he had telegraphed his youngest son Joseph, because the old general thought he was shortly going to die. Hill also calmly asked his daughter Nancy to wa ...
James Garfield - Capitol Square Foundation
... received tentative assignments, extended and later reversed, to stations in Florida, Virginia and South Carolina.[42] During this period of idleness in Washington waiting for an assignment, Garfield spent much of his time corresponding with old friends and family. An unsubstantiated rumor of an affa ...
... received tentative assignments, extended and later reversed, to stations in Florida, Virginia and South Carolina.[42] During this period of idleness in Washington waiting for an assignment, Garfield spent much of his time corresponding with old friends and family. An unsubstantiated rumor of an affa ...
Boxing in the Union Blue: A Social History of American Boxing in the
... appeared irreparable. On April 12, 1861, the nation violently fractured when Confederate forces opened fire on Federal troops stationed at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The fort fell to the Confederacy on April 13, throwing the country into Civil War. Eager to squelch the Southern insurrection, Presi ...
... appeared irreparable. On April 12, 1861, the nation violently fractured when Confederate forces opened fire on Federal troops stationed at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The fort fell to the Confederacy on April 13, throwing the country into Civil War. Eager to squelch the Southern insurrection, Presi ...
a strong mind: a clausewitzian biography of u
... Many biographers of Grant, as many of his acquaintances and contemporaries during the war, found little in his early life to recommend him to the heights to which he rose. Before the war Grant was exceptional chiefly due to his unexceptionality among his fellow graduates from West Point. A few of Gr ...
... Many biographers of Grant, as many of his acquaintances and contemporaries during the war, found little in his early life to recommend him to the heights to which he rose. Before the war Grant was exceptional chiefly due to his unexceptionality among his fellow graduates from West Point. A few of Gr ...
Unit: The Civil War 1861-1865
... Primarily Southern States/Territories Opposed Election of Lincoln ...
... Primarily Southern States/Territories Opposed Election of Lincoln ...
Conflict and Controversy in the Confederate High Command
... that offensive operations were hazardous under the circumstances. His post-war memoir articulated the same theme throughout. Further, his record during the war provides evidence of only two successful offensive strikes against the enemy. In the first case, at Manassas, he was never given proper cred ...
... that offensive operations were hazardous under the circumstances. His post-war memoir articulated the same theme throughout. Further, his record during the war provides evidence of only two successful offensive strikes against the enemy. In the first case, at Manassas, he was never given proper cred ...
Jenkins` Ferry Pres plan Draft.indd
... Edmund Kirby Smith’s Confederate army caught Gen. Frederick Steele’s Union army south of Leola, Arkansas. The Union forces held off the Confederates that day, allowing the Union army to escape into the Saline River bottom. On April 30, 1864, Union infantry repulsed a succession of Confederate attack ...
... Edmund Kirby Smith’s Confederate army caught Gen. Frederick Steele’s Union army south of Leola, Arkansas. The Union forces held off the Confederates that day, allowing the Union army to escape into the Saline River bottom. On April 30, 1864, Union infantry repulsed a succession of Confederate attack ...
Mercer Museum and Spruance Library of the Bucks
... the ex-general may have, he continues, keep this support a secret as to avoid being whipped. “We are not,” he writes of himself and his fellow soldiers, “in for having a traitor in the presidential chair after fighting these years.” Society Collection (MSC 131) Folder 6 – contains “a decidedly rich ...
... the ex-general may have, he continues, keep this support a secret as to avoid being whipped. “We are not,” he writes of himself and his fellow soldiers, “in for having a traitor in the presidential chair after fighting these years.” Society Collection (MSC 131) Folder 6 – contains “a decidedly rich ...
this PDF file
... Democrats such as Stephen A. Douglas. This period of bipartisan support would last only until the first major battle of the war at Bull Run, in which Union troops were driven from the field in ignominious defeat. 20 Roddy and other Democrats blamed this humiliation on the Lincoln Administration's ha ...
... Democrats such as Stephen A. Douglas. This period of bipartisan support would last only until the first major battle of the war at Bull Run, in which Union troops were driven from the field in ignominious defeat. 20 Roddy and other Democrats blamed this humiliation on the Lincoln Administration's ha ...
ProQuest Dissertations - Rice Scholarship Home
... few hard-line secessionists who were in Maryland had to await Virginia's move, which did not come until April 17, 1861. Virginia's secession was precipitated by Lincoln's call for troops following the battle at Fort Sumter, which enflamed passions in most of the Upper South and border slave states. ...
... few hard-line secessionists who were in Maryland had to await Virginia's move, which did not come until April 17, 1861. Virginia's secession was precipitated by Lincoln's call for troops following the battle at Fort Sumter, which enflamed passions in most of the Upper South and border slave states. ...
civil war web - Web Sources for Military History
... U.S. history from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and is a former project manager for the New York Times on the Web and the former associate director of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. RICHARD JENSEN is professor emeritus of histor ...
... U.S. history from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and is a former project manager for the New York Times on the Web and the former associate director of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. RICHARD JENSEN is professor emeritus of histor ...
the First Battle of Bull Run and its Impact on Connecticut
... Bolles and his comrades reached the Union camp in the early morning. Despite their pain, Bolles praised his men and leaders for their brave soldiery at Bull Run.4 Connecticut soldiers’ experience, like Bolles’, reflected that of most Union troops at Bull Run. July 21, 1861 would go down in history ...
... Bolles and his comrades reached the Union camp in the early morning. Despite their pain, Bolles praised his men and leaders for their brave soldiery at Bull Run.4 Connecticut soldiers’ experience, like Bolles’, reflected that of most Union troops at Bull Run. July 21, 1861 would go down in history ...
Section 5 - Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area
... Assembly in pro-Union Frederick. Sessions are held sporadically until September, when pro-Southern legislators are arrested by Federal troops to ensure Maryland’s loyalty. ...
... Assembly in pro-Union Frederick. Sessions are held sporadically until September, when pro-Southern legislators are arrested by Federal troops to ensure Maryland’s loyalty. ...
Newtonia Battlefields Special Resource Study
... participation in the Civil War. While the battlefield has a high degree of integrity, it does not meet significance criteria. General Price’s Missouri Expedition was a campaign with nationwide repercussions; however, the site of the Second Battle of Newtonia does not represent major aspects of the c ...
... participation in the Civil War. While the battlefield has a high degree of integrity, it does not meet significance criteria. General Price’s Missouri Expedition was a campaign with nationwide repercussions; however, the site of the Second Battle of Newtonia does not represent major aspects of the c ...
mission - Amazon Web Services
... ordered you to take your force behind the Union Army and attack it from the rear, but Union cavalry forces stopped this move. During the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union cavalry forces mortally wounded you at the Battle of Yellow Tavern. You died on May 12th, 1864. ...
... ordered you to take your force behind the Union Army and attack it from the rear, but Union cavalry forces stopped this move. During the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union cavalry forces mortally wounded you at the Battle of Yellow Tavern. You died on May 12th, 1864. ...
"The Naples of America," Pensacola during the Civil War
... tourists pass by with hardly a thought as they continue towards Walt Disney World or Key West. However, this was not the case during the nineteenth century when Florida’s population did not extend any further south after Gainesville. Pensacola boasted a flourishing port and timber industry that made ...
... tourists pass by with hardly a thought as they continue towards Walt Disney World or Key West. However, this was not the case during the nineteenth century when Florida’s population did not extend any further south after Gainesville. Pensacola boasted a flourishing port and timber industry that made ...
Untitled - TCU Digital Repository
... surrender of Fort Sumter on April 14, 1861, the nation was galvanized for war in a way it had never been before. The next day President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to put down the insurrection, and the states responded rapidly. Massachusetts governor John Andrew even wrote to ...
... surrender of Fort Sumter on April 14, 1861, the nation was galvanized for war in a way it had never been before. The next day President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to put down the insurrection, and the states responded rapidly. Massachusetts governor John Andrew even wrote to ...
“`REBELS AGAINST A REBELLION`: SOUTHERN UNIONISTS IN
... the Union troops, it is clear that his alleged activities were viewed as dangerous and disloyal by the Confederates. “It [was] well understood and known in the neighborhood by all there acquainted with the family, that they were all considered loyal to the U.S. government,” one of the Taylors’ union ...
... the Union troops, it is clear that his alleged activities were viewed as dangerous and disloyal by the Confederates. “It [was] well understood and known in the neighborhood by all there acquainted with the family, that they were all considered loyal to the U.S. government,” one of the Taylors’ union ...
this Thesis or Dissertation
... to the other members of my committee (Ray Stephens, J. B. Smallwood, Robert LaForte, William Painter, and Richard Ruderman) for their scholarly advice over the years. ...
... to the other members of my committee (Ray Stephens, J. B. Smallwood, Robert LaForte, William Painter, and Richard Ruderman) for their scholarly advice over the years. ...
Sarah Emma Edmonds (Seelye):
... own costume, and assumed that of the opposite sex, enduring hardships, suffering untold privations, and hazarding her life for her adopted country, in its trying hour of need …. Whether duty leads her to the couch of luxury, the abode of poverty, the crowded hospital or the terrible battlefield – it ...
... own costume, and assumed that of the opposite sex, enduring hardships, suffering untold privations, and hazarding her life for her adopted country, in its trying hour of need …. Whether duty leads her to the couch of luxury, the abode of poverty, the crowded hospital or the terrible battlefield – it ...
Confederate Nationalism in Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia During
... Savannah, the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, and at the Historic New Orleans Collection and Tulane University in New Orleans. The Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship from the Virginia Historical Society and two graduate student Mellon research fellowships from the College of Arts and Scie ...
... Savannah, the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, and at the Historic New Orleans Collection and Tulane University in New Orleans. The Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship from the Virginia Historical Society and two graduate student Mellon research fellowships from the College of Arts and Scie ...
Jubal Early
Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. He served under Stonewall Jackson and then Robert E. Lee for almost the entire war, rising from regimental command to lieutenant general and the command of an infantry corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was the Confederate commander in key battles of the Valley Campaigns of 1864, including a daring raid to the outskirts of Washington, D.C. The articles written by him for the Southern Historical Society in the 1870s established the Lost Cause point of view as a long-lasting literary and cultural phenomenon.