Related to civil war:Spanish Civil War civil war n. 1.A war between factions or regions of the same country. 2.Civil WarThe war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. Also calledWar Between the States. ...
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At the beginning of 1863 the Confederacy seemed to have a fair chance of ultimate success on the battlefield. But during this year three great campaigns would take place that would shape the outcome of the war in favor of the North. One would see the final solution to the control of the...
takes effect January 1, 1863. General Lee's invasion of the North is halted by General McClellan at theBattle of Antietamin Maryland. In the bloodiest single day of the Civil War, Union casualties are 2,108 killed and 9,549 wounded; Confederate casualties are 2,700 killed and 9,029 ...
Antietam Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862. 1:10,200. ISBN 0-7834-1671-7. The true watershed battle of the Civil War. Had Robert E. Lee won, foreign intervention might have resulted in Confederate independence. Image size is 16" x 20"; overall size is 18" x 28". One side has...
The northern and the southern states, who sat on two opposite spots of the spectrum about the subject of slavery, met in the battlefield. The roots of this war were deep and could be seen from a cultural, economic and political point of views. The gap between the two states, concerning...
27. That Field of Blood (Antietam) 28. Attack at Daylight and Whip Them (Shiloh) 29. To Hazard All (Maryland Campaign) 30. All Hell Can't Stop Them (Chattanooga) 31. The Great Battle Never Fought (Mine Run) 32. Let Us Die Like Men (Franklin) 33. Call Out the Cadets (New Market...
a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and an ardent supporter of the Union war effort. After the war began, she and her daughter Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson, recently widowed, volunteered as nurses. They spent fifteen months working at the military prison at Point Lookout, Maryland in 1862...
Published here for the first time, the Civil War combat memoir of Col. James Taylor Holmes of the 52nd Ohio Volunteers presents a richly detailed first-hand account of the June 1864 Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Written in 1915, Holmes’ insightful narrative, with original hand-drawn diagrams, ...
Many of you have visited Antietam National Battlefield at Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The September 17, 1862 battle became the largest violent loss of… Continue Reading William McKinley Monument Sharpsburg Maryland Posted in Book Reviews Slavery Civil War Talk Radio on Somewhere Toward ...