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davis has blood on his hands
I assume you meant "had" here since Jefferson Davis died 120 years ago. Otherwise I won't argue the point.
in 1865 the union army and navy were secon...
...gs. we understand that her grand father was a Dr. in Georgia near Madison. He was to have tended Shermans troops, and he saved the city. How does one check out names of persons who where in the war, ...
...he could to get them there as quickly as possible, there's only so fast you can move a large body of troops - especially in those days.
On the 3rd, while Longstreet did disagree with Lee'...
...nfantry lined in the trees behind the artillery LEE and PICKETT rode across their front which bought the troops out of the trees and cheering very loudy -
i had read somewhere that the men were unde...
...treating the South unfairly in trade, commerece & politics. It was more of an afterthought when Union Troops time of enlistment were about to expire "A Grand Cause" to promote re-enlistm...
... and Texas.
Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina seceded after lincoln called for 300,000 troops to "put down the rebellion" (a de facto declaration of war on the Seceded S...
...stance. When the 165th New York Volunteer Regiment played at Hilton Head, South Carolina more than 40,000 troops watched. I would ask myself, what must it must have been like playing bat ball and bei...
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...
...handsewer, and he had an original set of lasts and leather-working tools used to make brogans for Federal troops. Unfortunately, they disappeared at some point before I was old enough to appreciate su...
...o, wasnt Britain within an ace of recognizing the Confederacy,had they won at Gettys, and sending british troops to help,or the british navy to end the Union blockade of the South.? I think one of the...
Confederates attempted to storm Culps Hill twice & failed. Over 200,000 rounds were fired by Union troops defending Culps hill & yet rebel forces under Edward Johnson's div. were able to ...
...9;m bias toward A.P. Hill's epic march from Harpers Ferry to Sharpsburg. #1~ Hill force marched his troops with little rest across a rolling landscape. Hundreds fell out of the ranks from exposu...
...ings became so popular. They are next to worthless in the sun and absolutely so in the rain. Many western troops in the WBTS on both sides threw them away and acquired a civilian slouch hat.
BTW hi...
...an let it perish, and the war came.
I like how he throws the blame on the South, failing to mention U.S. troops were garrisoned on C.S. soil and given full opportunity to leave with no conflict at al...
...initely shrewd, he was able to use the slavery issue to keep England France out of it, and still keep his troops fighting to preserve the union....
...roaches the georgia capitol at milledgeville, meanwhile hood advances onward in tennessee,he forces union troops under schofield to fall back so as not to be out flanked....
...nyone else has some information, please say so.
I think recruiters went from town to town to call for troops and pretty much pepped up townfolk boys (and young men) to go out and become a man and ...
...ust out of frame on left is Dunker Church! Jackson defended this area of the Confederate Left pitting his troops against Hooker, & Meade etc. I love this veiw, it shows the ground Hoods Texas brig...
1861-some in the north see what wilkes did with the "trent affair"wasnt so cool,senator charles sumner of mass. and montgomery blair,the postmaster general,condem his action. 1862-aop under ...
1861-robt e. lee in command of wva confederates at big sewell mtn. trying to stop usa advances in that part of va. ormsby m. mitchel,the famous star gazer for the union commands now the dept.of the oh...
...igners and Southerners) were to do it for monetary gain.Remember there were at least 500,000 foreign born troops and probably 200,00 "southerners" in the federal army. Many joined specifical...
...ailroad and prevent Union forces near Cumberland, Maryland, from marching south and attacking Confederate troops soon to be movin...
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...
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...
...t 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 see something that had happ...
...eemingly insignificant obstacles such as fences, and the surprising influence of traffic flow patterns on troops movements through the town of Gettysburg. I am not used to TV providing this level of d...
I found this at Civilwarhome.com, a so-so site. I'm posting it in it's entirety (and I think there's more to it) because I know Blueshawk is interested in the soldier's view from l...
...te soldiers in the center knew they were almost surrounded, and naturally panicked. Thomas held his AotC troops in the center back (again, against Grant's "better judgement") until he knew ...
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