His collection is the jewel among the more than 2,200 Civil War maps in the Library, containing 341 field notebooks, detailed reconnaissance maps, and finely drawn after-battle maps, some annotated by Jackson, Lee, and others, indicating their use in planning campaigns. He was one of the forty men of the Camargo Company who went to California via Mexico on January 1849, after the successful termination of the War with Mexico
Hatton, Soldier (Andy Hall), 1.18.2011: long piece on George Hatton, who served in the USCT; includes a letter regarding in the whipping of slaver William Henry Clapton; many links Do Civil War Reenactments Help or Hinder? (Andy Hall), 1.18.2011: on the recent reenactment of a slave auction in St. Buchanan; Grants notes that once slavery became profitable, no way it would disappear; his musings on why Southerners, most of whom did not own slaves, nonetheless joined the secessionists Simple Images, Complex Realities, (Andy Hall) 1.21.2011: on so-called black Confederates and photo taken Dr
AntoxaGray What will happen if Italy and Papal state ban Attila: Total War; Russia will ban all games about Mongols (Europa Universalis, Medieval: Total War, Cossacks, etc), Brazil ban all games about spanish conquest; France ban all games about roses war; Japan ban all games about pacific theater; All european countries ban games about Napoleon? I already find it stupid that nazi flag banned from games. Can we replace Orwell's gravestone? Something more cogent perhaps? Instead of "Rest in Peace", how about "I F------- TOLD YOU SO, YOU IDIOTS!" Utterly appalling, full stop
Lost Cause, The
9, his famous farewell address to the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 10, 1865, when he insisted that the army had been "compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources." While this is "a comforting conclusion and it is not without a substantial basis of fact," according to the historian Bell Irvin Wiley, it also understates the Union's military accomplishment, which involved actively subduing a vast and populous country. Still, in his 1981 essay collection, Reflections on the Civil War, the historian Bruce Catton provocatively suggested that, in the end, "the legend of the lost cause has served the entire country very well." The things that were done during the Civil War have not been forgotten, of course, but we now see them through a veil
By 1860 the per capita wealth of Southern whites was twice that of Northerners, and three-fifths of the wealthiest individuals in the country were Southerners.The extension of slavery into new territories and states had been an issue as far back as the Northwest Ordinance of 1784. Moreover, Northerners had invested heavily in an expansive and varied transportation system that included canals, roads, steamboats, and railroads; in financial industries such as banking and insurance; and in a large communications network that featured inexpensive, widely available newspapers, magazines, and books, along with the telegraph
References BRAZILIAN CONFEDERATES Voice of America 26 July 1998 U.S.CIVIL WAR IN RECENT LITERATURE Voice of America 22 January 1999 "Stonewall" Jackson -- Friendly Fire That Changed a War? American Forces Press Service 02 February 1999 Resources The American Civil War in Four Minutes The U. The North faced a demanding and complex political problem, namely to reassert its authority over a vast territorial empire, far too extensive to be completely occupied or thoroughly controlled
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Robert E. Lee - American Civil War - HISTORY.com
On August 29-30, he defeated General John Pope in the second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas), but when he invaded Maryland he was checked on September 17 by Union forces under McClellan at Antietam. Three years later, with the approval of Jefferson Davis, then secretary of war, he transferred as a lieutenant colonel to the newly raised Second Cavalry and served in West Texas
Leaders of the Civil War
Leaders of the Civil War Leaders of the Civil War Abraham Lincoln President of the United States by Wayne Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States during the Civil War from 1860-1865. The training he got at the military school helped him to become a great military leader and is one of the reasons the Confederates won so many battles at the beginning of the Civil War
In this celebrated campaign the American generals rivaled if they did not excel the exploits of Marlborough, Eugene and Villars, under allied conditions. The duration of the war was due to the nature of the country and the enormous distances to be traversed, not to any want of energy, for the armies were in deadly earnest and their battles and combats (of which two thousand four hundred can be named) sterner than those of almost any war in modern history
The Civil War Blog
The Sultana was only approved to transport 376 passengers and already had a boiler in need of immediate repair, which would delay the sailing and the released prisoners would no doubt have been given to another vessel. Lee planned to move westward and converge on Amelia Court House which was 35 miles away and from there move by rail into North Carolina to join Johnston
Last Civil War Battle and Final Surrender of the Civil War
While the first edition covered 60 major battlefields, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox, the second covers all of the 384 designated as the "principal battlefields" in the American Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report. Site search Web search Advance to: Last Battle and Final Surrender of the Civil War: A History Surrender of General and Cherokee Chief Stand Watie (Final surrender of Confederate forces "West of the Mississippi") Order of Surrendering Confederate Forces: American Civil War Confederate Soldier Describes Exchanging the Last Confederate Flag of Truce with General William T
The Civil War for Fifth Graders
Causes of the Civil War The North and the South had different attitudes toward slavery, free labor (paid) versus slave labor (unpaid) Confederate troops bombarded a Union stronghold, Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, April 12, 1861. Southern leaders thought their power in the House would decline as free states joined Southern states wanted the right to declare any national law illegal
April 24, 1862 - 17 Union ships under the command of Flag Officer David Farragut move up the Mississippi River then take New Orleans, the South's greatest seaport. Lee, son of a Revolutionary War hero, and a 25 year distinguished veteran of the United States Army and former Superintendent of West Point, is offered command of the Union Army
The End Of The Civil War
I do not doubt that he would have done so; but there was no occasion for Lee's offering it, because in the terms agreed upon it was stipulated that the Confederate officers should retain their side-arms. Chamberlain of Maine, who afterward served with distinction as governor of his State, called his troops into line, and as my men marched in front of them, the veterans in blue gave a soldierly salute to those vanquished heroes -- a token of respect from Americans to Americans, a final and fitting tribute from Northern to Southern chivalry
Appomattox and the Ongoing Civil War - The Atlantic
This military Reconstruction Act also disfranchised certain classes of white Southerners, established black male suffrage, and forced majority approval of new state constitutions (which had to include the equal protection provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment) for readmission to the Union. Approximately 1.2 million were wounded, including perhaps 30-40,000 northern amputees (there are no equivalent numbers for Southerners) who struggled with life and livelihood well into the late nineteenth century
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