fight

Forum Post Recoil of Civil War Rifles and/or Muskets
... that maybe fired seven rounds,etc. As a teen, my brothers baited me, I was so easy: like betting on a fight.(they knew the winner; it was tv's first replay fight. Or when I scoffed at their sa...
Forum Post civil war
how do people fight like that?
Forum Post if the south had been allowed to go-how long would slavery h...
99% of the men from the south that marched off to war were not figting for slavery. They were fight for the homes and families.....
Forum Post forgotten fights
Grant and Lee had a drunken slap fight in 1863!
Blog Comment A Relaxing Way to Spend the Weekend.
...ester and parts of Second Winchester are lost to development, but a key position in the Third Winchester fight, Fort Collier, still exists. The3 Star Fort has been saved, but funds are lacking to rest...
Forum Post Was Total War necessary to win the Civil War?
fight to the death-maybe the die hards but the majority who deserted did so on their own behalf-its not fun starving,being sick,wounded,maimed,killed and knowing there no chance to win.fight to the de...
Forum Post If the Confederacy had won at Gettysburgh...?
...to knock on any major city in the east with little opposition, and if necessary, find ground to which to fight either the offensive battle he needed, or fight a defensive battle if it came to it. S...
Forum Post Quiz: What Battle produced three future Presidents and who were they?
...arrisson mckinley, hayes were in the east,garfild grant in the west didnt the future head of switserland fight this a tough question any more clues?fort donelson?...
Forum Post Computer Animation of Civil War Battles
...ed.com It's a simple matter of pressing a play button and watching troops, represented by squares, fight in sequence over map drawings of the various battle fields. Quite cool, you'll like ...
Forum Post Which of these battles was considered to be the high point o...
...coln was a very quick study, in terms of learning how to prosecute a war and put stars on the collars of fighting people. Lincoln hired and fired generals until he got men who could not only fight the...
Forum Post Chancellorsville
...e us goverment wanted action so hooker moved against lee in the wilderness which was not a good place to fight,you could say every battle both sides fought in virginia led to chancellorsville-hooker d...
Forum Post If There Were Another Attempt To Secede - what could be learned from History?
...oiling are over. The United States government BELIEVES that all land and property belongs to it and will fight for every ounce of control. But, if you want to try, it would be entertaining to watch...
Forum Post why didnt southern soldiers began small groups and harass th...
...t have taken it toll,they were tired and alot of the best and brightest dead or maimed-would you want to fight on in the hills or go home and try to rebuild as robert e lee did,who never complained an...
Forum Post whats important
...r.what did battle mean to the war?does anyone know?im willing to bet most people have never heard of the fight.that part of ky became a sort of no-mans land the mountains were very hard on campaigning...
Forum Post Just came aboard
...il War buffs, Just came aboard from California's 23rd Infantry Regiment, for the Union. I'm fighting for the Union and for President Abraham Lincoln. There is no other man I would fight f...
Forum Post Nicolas Zeis died "as a soldier in Pittsburgh PA...
...ans regiment he was in,lucky for me the regt history book mentioned that a drunken soldier had started a fight with another soldier over a horse race-man was killed hence dyers compeduim thought a ski...
Forum Post Had the situation been reversed, what would the North have done?
... invention, or did the south enjoy unique thinkers? I imagine that if I had huge advantages, say in a fight...and I had an incredible overhand right that knocked people out 9 out of 10 times, then ...
Forum Post Was Nathan Bedford Forrest to blame for massacre?
...ete he and his mates fought Hitlers finest troops,his parachute airborne divisions.A lot of hand to hand fighting, and as he put it" thirty minutes of pure terror,running aroudnd with my pistol,t...
Forum Post november 16th
...g north from chattanooga and braxton bragg, james longsteet's men move towards knoxville.today they fight at campbells station hoping to cut ambrose burnside's line of retreat which longstee...
Forum Post civil war
...answer, as at the beginning of the War there were many colors used by state troops who were called up to fight for both sides. For instance the New York Grays, who fought for the north, wore gray unif...
Forum Post Best Civil War movie??
...d, then getting lined up in position, directed to, stand in mid stride action and walk/fake hand to hand fight/shoot/run away/take a casualty (also cheer or listen to speeches for rebels in this scene...
Forum Post history 111
I am sure that in the beginning most soldiers that volunteered for the union did out of simple patriotism (and perhaps out of a sense of adventure), The longer the war went on however the more likely ...
Forum Post Done Translating
Below is the results of my quest to translate or at least reduce to a readable form the 8 page letter written by a relative during the Civil War. It is by no means perfect and I still have not figured...
Blog Post jefferson davis is elected president of csa
...rm a new nation,for now he must concentrate on defence of the csa from northern invaders in time he will fight on two fronts for the congress in the csa capitol will not always agree on his decisions ...
Blog Post John Aquilla Wilson
... John "Quil" Wilson was not only the last surviving Black ACW veteran, he was of the youngest men to fight the confederates in the Gettysburg Campaign, Scott Mingus From Cannonball says: ...
Forum Post Civil War Computer Games
It is nice to have a niche to fall back to when seeking relaxation. I started thinking about what games they had in the civil war, and, well, the world in general. Take it back further and the list...
Blog Post Need a Family Tree?
...Sevier County Tennessee about a year ago.the area is steeped in history, because a lot of people came to fight in the revolution at Kings mountain, which was a turning point  in the  revolut...
Blog Post Is This What our Founders envisioned?
I found a very insightful blog Remember how united our citizens and Congress were after 9/11? We had our Congressmen and Senators on the Capitol steps (a presumed target of the terrorists) ...
Blog Post th civil war happened here
...ito ranch last battle of the civil war.just  acouple markers but area mostly looks like it did this fight shouldnt have happened as texas had been out of the war for about a year.this was june 18...
Blog Post the trent affair 1861
...eded american corn.crop failures made it more so and america needed saltpeter they could provide,try and fight a war without saltpeter.  would england back a slave country>i dont think it was ...
  More Topics...

The Content on this site is provided for general information purposes only. Your use of the Content, or any part thereof, is made solely at Your own risk and responsibility. By entering this site you declare you read and agreed to its Terms, Rules & Privacy.
Copyright © 2006 - 2010 American Civil War Forum