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Blog Comment The Ultimate Nickname List by PeteHeron
...ity being given a nickname due to some event in the war. What comes to mind is the what they called Gen. Grant after the Wilderness Campaign began: "Butcher" Grant. His more flattering moniker: Uncond...
Blog Comment The Gunboats by PeteHeron
I love the internet. Taft was born in 1857; served as Sec. of Def. under Grant. Five Presidents from civil war: Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, McKinley. In order;#s 18.19.20.23.25. #21 was Chester ...
Forum Post forgotten fights by Kamikaze
Grant and Lee had a drunken slap fight in 1863!
Forum Post Quiz: What Battle produced three future Presidents and who were they? by kakman
Answer: Chatanooga, East General 1st one: Baldy Smith 2nd: Hooker Presidents: Grant, Garfield, Howard (President Friedman's Bureau) Weapon might be starvation, but not sure.
Forum Post Greetings! by piesnchess
...es have always been with the South, I even have a very nice Civil war Chess set,with Lee as one King,and Grant as the other. I always make sure I go the Confederacy,and being a fairly good player,the ...
Blog Comment Our Three Equally Important Union Armies by kakman
dear sir thomas gave no orders to hooker that was grants job,there was no orders for the aoc to go to the top of mission ridge,confusion,mis-understandings,whatever.the officers and men conducted thie...
Forum Post Couple questions - Expert needed by olddominion83
...nion artillery and achieved victory. As you probably know many of the officers came from West Point i.e. Grant and Lee. Most films and books protray soldiers being trained locally. Hope this helps....
Blog Post The Ultimate Nickname List by Sue
...ng military record before the civil war became " Old Fuss-n-Feathers " during the civil war. Ulysses S. Grant of course, was among o...
Forum Post Civil War Reenactors Wanted for Short Film "Down North Country Way" by Seeking Civil War Reenactors 4 film
Grant Wilfley Casting is currently seeking Civil War Re enactors for featured background work on the feature film, Morning Glory featuring Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton and Rachel McAdams. The shoot d...
Blog Comment the civil war happened here by PeteHeron
...bout D-Day and we know about Okinawa and other WWII amphibious landings, but do students realize that US Grant landed fifty thousand troops under Vicksburg as gunboats looked on? Every time I think I ...
Forum Post november 23rd by kakman
...ederate army commanded by braxton bragg waits,what they have been waiting for doesnt seem clear. general grant has his men in place and first on the list is for csa held orchard knob to be taken-this ...
Forum Post If the Confederacy had won at Gettysburgh...? by rebelyeller_1861
...with free rein in the North. Washington needs to protect itself (which it did with fortifications), and Grant, with his reputation of being a fighter, would've been called on to help. Other com...
Forum Post overated confederate by PeteHeron
...orse. Until I do that, I will never remotely comprehend the hardiness of these people. For example: Gen. Grant riding nearly sixty miles into Chattanooga wi...
Blog Post Grants Cottage and Death. by Sue
here is the segment on President and Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant from the 2008 WMHT documentary Presidents in Our Backyard. This focuses on the last weeks of Grant's life in S...
Blog Post civil war movies by kakman
...ht id mention that fact.someone could make good movies based on fact about jeb stuart,bedford forrest,us grant,lee'sretreat from gettysburg,cushing's naval exploits or john taylor wood's.im going to s...
Blog Post Our Three Equally Important Union Armies by PeteHeron
...grasp some of the difficulties faced by both sides. Today's US95 pretty much runs the land route that Grant took towards Richmond(as did all Army of the Potomac leaders through the course of the wa...
Blog Post Another Museum in Gettysburg by Sue
...$175,000 to pay for part of the planning stage, which could take up to two years. The funding is a state grant and loan program, assisting Pennsylvania's agricultural and tourism industries. This ...
Blog Post The Gunboats by PeteHeron
...y could sail in close to the cliffs and get south of the guns overlooking the Mississippi, thus enabling Grant to land fifty thousand men below Vicksburg, ensuring the bastion's defeat The Red Rive...
Blog Post Imagine Yourself Experiencing This by Sue
For me, the most interesting aspect of the civil war (and any other war, for that matter) are the people behind the battles, and the people behind the soldiers. Even during the times when fem...
Blog Post Post Trauma Stress During the Civil War by Sue
I read a very interesting and thought evoking post in Civil War Medicine , which because I think is such and important subject, today as well as during the civil war, I will quote it extensively...
 

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