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...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....
...d on 1863 to cadet Grey because it was mistaken on battle for the enemy.In the end there were even barefoot soldiers because of lack of supplies. You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
To mac, yes soldiers often used many things beside the bayonet in a melee. Some refused to use the bayonet because of how brutal it was. However, one soldier's feeling about it doesn't over ...
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...
...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...
...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...
...Gallon entitled, Hold at All Costs, depicting the 20th Maine on Little Round Top. In the painting two Union soldiers are wearing their kepis backwards. I have never seen or heard of this anywhere else...
...lid writing style that appeals across a wide spectrum of readers. While his study focuses on ordinary Union soldiers, his theme is in fact Universal. I'd venture that everything he wrote about Un...
Most of those teeth marked bullets are not hospital bullets, but fear bullets. During a battle many soldiers would hold a ready bullet in their teeth for a quick follow-up load... While waiting for th...
...ross this title: "Rules for the Management and Cleaning of the Rifle Musket, Model 1863 for the use of Soldiers with Descriptive Plates." It's available as a reprint of some re-enacting...
...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, ...
... There's a huge difference between the cause of a given war, ancient or modern, and what compelled the soldiers fighting it carry on with the dirty work of it all....
... 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 ...
...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...
...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...
...rate weapon, and seeing what it did to my wonderful cardboard target, I have a better understanding how the soldiers killed so many enemy....
I am trying to find photos of the following confederate soldiers and I am not having much luck:
Captain Richard Johnson of Johnson's Horse Artilly attached to 3rd regiment SC calvery.
Capt...
...l of the American Civil War
Description: [i]In October of 1861, Jim Mundy and the other young Confederate soldiers marching off to fight in the Civil War believed the Yankees would be whipped before...
...ighting on each site. I've collected some readings from John Michael Priest's "Antietam: The Soldiers Battle" & S. Sears, "Landscape turned Red". I intend for us to a...
... chaplin, & company Dr. may be the very doctor who delivered you at birth(not hard to imagine when many soldiers are 16yrs old)! I guess what I'm saying is this..... Would you honestly not si...
...n Crete,fighting hand to hand against Hitlers crack paratroopers.And the Japanese he held in awe,no tougher soldiers,he said,He was in artillery,a FOO.He blamed himself for shelling a Jap stronhold in...
A Battle from The Start by Brian Steel Wills
"The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest"
I chose to post about this book next because Forrest has become one of my favorite Generals of the w...
1863-today joe hooker once head of the union army of the potomac in the east,looked to redeem his reputation tarnished at the battle of chancellorsville in may 1863. three days before the battle of ge...
One of the most difficult types of Civil War books to write well are small unit histories. There are a number of reasons for this, not the least of which is the relative lack of primary sources. The O...
... I've been working to review actual census records, war records, and related newspaper accounts of the soldiers and unit.
I have about a dozen ancestors in Co F, including my great grandfathe...
Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy
Guerrilla Warfare in the West, 1861-1865
by Richard S. Brownlee
The subtitle gives you an idea of what this book is about, but more specifically, it's abou...
"The Stars & Bars is seen by the world as a symbol of hate. Sadly the reputation of this honorable battle-flag has been assassinated for decades"
I certainly agree that the Battle-fla...
...d given way by the third year, particularly the stand, load, and fire. This represented a quantum leap when soldiers began using cover and concealment. Though it had been around, known by some as Indi...
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