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Forum Post why didnt southern soldiers began small groups and harass th...
why didnt southern soldiers began small groups and harass the Union Troops instead of surrender
Forum Post How many Civil War soldiers cam home? north/sout...
How many Civil War soldiers cam home? north/south
Forum Post Seeking information about Riker's Island Soldiers during the civil war!
Hi, I'm from the UK and recently had info off an uncle that one of our American ancestors either refused to sign up or deserted during the civil war. As a punishment he was allegedly sent to Rike...
Forum Post where they wearing kepis in Greece 1860 that looked like our...
... and some information. I own an original photograph from the 1860's that I bought in Athens Greece of soldiers wearing Kepis. I thought all this time that it was a shot of American soldiers on ...
Forum Post Uniform Pin
dear eagle- it appears to be a corps badge or insignia from the 17th corps usa.waf is probally the soldiers initials.it might have been specially made,alot of thease badges were made of cloth and i re...
Forum Post Couple questions - Expert needed
...n but I can't seem to find info anywhere. Also, what was the best training facility for Confederate soldiers? Would fighting soldiers have trained at a different place than generals or other ...
Forum Post history 111
What was confederate soldiers fighting for
Forum Post First and Second Manassas Battles
...here along the Confederate lines. I am hoping to find some Civil War re enactment groups who are recreating soldiers in the Confederate Army who might have knowledge of this soldier.Or anyone who migh...
Blog Comment th civil war happened here
... down a road-paved yes-but no wider than it was then and surrounded by forest. i have to think its what the soldiers saw when they marched down that road at one point we turn onto a dirt road with ste...
Forum Post Best Civil War movie??
robert duvall as lee calls the union soldiers "yankees"didnt they have historians on set to help "those people"?
Forum Post Post Civil War diseases?
What were some of the negative effects surviving soldiers came home with after the Civil War? Did shell shock exist then?
Forum Post civil war
what are the physical effects on people and soldiers during the civil war???? plz...needs an aswer...
Forum Post I was wondering,do people still finding artifacts etc...on t...
...erstand mostly founds are like,bullets,shells etc...Sounds a bit weird but what about personal stuff of the soldiers...diary's,pics,to name a few.......
Forum Post Name of Confederate Hospital for Wounded/Battle of 1st Manassas?
Does anyone know what the name of the military hospital was that they sent the wounded Confederate Soldiers to after the battle of 1st Manassas? I was hoping I could find some hospital records somewh...
Forum Post How do I found out if I had family members that participated...
All 4 families had many soldiers in the war, on both sides. If you're looking for a more specific information, or you have their private names too, you can look them up in this site: http://www....
Forum Post Searching for John Russell Goodwin b 1841 middlesex england.
Try here. http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm
Forum Post 49th Virginia Infantry
Is there any way to find out what soldiers fought at what battles? I have a relative who was mustered in July 1861 at Dumfries, Virginia. Would he have served for the entire war? How could I find o...
Forum Post riddle me this!
...ion: Were both men buried in VA. Famous cemetaries. Hollywood Cemetary in Richmond, Arlington has Civil War soldiers (mostly Union) but Hollywood is the only major Confederate cemetary I can think of....
Forum Post Does anyone know where I could find information on Confedera...
Does anyone know where I could find information on Confederate soldiers taking their personal servants (aka slaves) with them in the army? I see references occasionally to this. I have even seen a r...
Forum Post Slavery
...ave died of natural causes. But this is interesting, in my research I've found that about 90% of Rebel soldiers fought for state's rights and a small number fought for slavery....
Forum Post Civil war bullets
...rtridge--and they were always wrapped in BLUE paper, not buff or white or brown, like standard minie balls. Soldiers were instructed to fire a Williams each 10th round---since they did not have a holl...
Forum Post Was Nathan Bedford Forrest to blame for massacre?
...ish we knew for sure,it might just be the biggest controversy of the war.it never goes away.the confederate soldiers that took part dishonered thier flag that day....
Forum Post I just read that in the civil war there were Belgian soldier...
I just read that in the civil war there were Belgian soldiers fighting,a few hundred as i read.Mostly on the side of the north,i live in Belgium,and i would never had thought there were (fellow-)count...
Forum Post Newbie saying hello from Chicago!
...l Histories at the Newberry Library in Chicago with the regiments I am looking for, but not much info on my soldiers individually or their companies so far. I am still going through, they are non- ci...
Forum Post Was Total War necessary to win the Civil War?
... to win. Without the intentional suffering inflicted on Southern women and children many if not most CS soldiers would have been willing to fight to the death. Many were NOT willing to do that if ...
Forum Post Causes of war?
...t time probably felt like giving up dominion over the entire pacific. What about here? I wonder how many soldiers and seditionists the Union hung during the civil war. I will look into that; gosh, ...
Forum Post Would Stonewall Jackson have made a difference at Gettysburgh?
many feel that he would have taken cemetary hill on july 1st,never mind that union soldiers already were on the hill in force.ewell in the previous month did as well as jackson in winning at wincheste...
Forum Post death of a confederate soldier
...out on both sides of the column,towards elysville on the patapsco river a lt named edelin is shot dead from soldiers from 3rd eastern shore inf.apparently edelin is a lieutanant in co.b 1st md cav.una...
Forum Post Looking for information on duties of Regimental and Brigade Headquarters Guards
...detached to Brigade HQ, his duties day to day was foraging, getting it from HQ or otherwise with four other soldiers. But during combat his story sounds like he is on the line with or very near hi...
Forum Post Recoil of Civil War Rifles and/or Muskets
...rate weapon, and seeing what it did to my wonderful cardboard target, I have a better understanding how the soldiers killed so many enemy....
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