Major General Ulysses S. Grant’s career suffered temporarily in the aftermath of Shiloh because of rumors of his drunkenness at the time of the attack. [Wikimedia Commons] Prelude At the onset of the American Civil War, the State of Tennessee comprised most of the northern border of the Co...
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American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. It arose out of disputes over slavery and states’ rights. When antislavery candidate Abraham Lin
The first is “U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865.” This database compiles basic information on the soldier (Name, rank, unit, state of residence, muster in date, etc.), but does have limitations, as names can be misspelled and it is not complete. That said, ...
Battle of Chickamauga Creek, (September 19–20, 1863), in the American Civil War, a vital part of the maneuvering and fighting to control the railroad centre at nearby Chattanooga, Tennessee. Union General William S. Rosecrans had established his army at
Women bore arms and charged into battle, too. Like the men, there were women who lived in camp, suffered in prisons, and died for their respective causes. Both the Union and Confederate armies forbade the enlistment of women. Women soldiers of the Civil War therefore assumed masculine names...
【孔夫子旧书网】Shiloh:The Battle That Changed the Civil War【夏伊洛战役:改变美国南北战争的战役】。作者:Larry J.Daniel,出版社:Touchstone,售价:149.88,出版人:Touchstone,年代:1997,装帧:2,线装:,刻印方式:平装,册数:
As the states of the Deep South moved to secession, in the border slave-holding state of Missouri people feared, and prepared for, civil conflict and the possibility of violence. In such an atmosphere the existing marching clubs did NOT disband. Instead they reorganized for the feared war ...
he spent the first two months of 1865 in the Main Street U.S.A. General Hospital in Covington, the city where his family had resided in 1850.This hospital was the “largest and longest-operating military hospital” in its city, having opened just before the bloody Battle of Shiloh. It ...
Jeb Stuart was a Confederate cavalry officer whose reports of enemy troop movements were of particular value to the Southern command during the American Civil War (1861–65). An 1854 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., Stuart resigne