This collection of essays represents the best recent history written on Civil War activity in Arkansas. It illuminates the complexity of such issues as guerrilla warfare, Union army policies, and the struggles hetween white and black civilians and soldiers, and also shows that the war years were...
Notice of Availability for a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Feasibility Study on the Preservation of Civil War Battlefields and Related Historic Sites Along the Vicksburg Campaign Trail (VCT) in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississ...
Civil War Battlefield Maps by Trailhead Graphics. This is an exciting series that will eventually cover most of the major Civil War battlefields. This series has a style very similar to Trails Illustrated, as the Trailhead Graphics cartographer did much of the Trails Illustrated early cartography....
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died or were wounded on Civil War battlefields (Livermore1900). Because of this, the National Park Service (NPS) maintains these public spaces as tangible monuments to the grim reality of the war that ended slavery in the United States. These historical landscap...
6https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/fort-fisher, 7https://thereconstructionera.com/27th-usct-a-black-regiment-from-ohio/All quotes and details on the 27thUSCI from this paragraph to the end of the story are from this same source. ...
The Civil War, Witness to War. Harold Holzer. Tennessee's Civil War Battlefields. Randy Bishop. The Civil War Battlefield Guide. Frances H. Kennedy, ed. The Timechart History of the Civil War. James Arnold & Roberta Wiener, eds.
Iowa has a proud history in the Civil War. Iowa Regiments fought at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and Atlanta. Many were on the March to the Sea and the March through the Carolinas. Others served west of the Mississippi in Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. Shortly after ...
Demonstration– A deceptive and crafty movement or action made in order to fool and gain the enemy’s attention. To trick, distract, or confuse the enemy and gain an advantage so an attack can be made at another place. When performed on the battlefields of the Civil War, it was like wha...
97 "Lincoln at the Front: Abraham Lincoln Visits the Battlefields of the Civil War," Blue & Gray Magazine, February-March 1984. 98 "Raid on Harpers Ferry," American History Illustrated, March 1984. 99 "Francis Bicknell Carpenter: Painter of Abraham Lincoln and His Circle" (with Gabor S. ...
battlefields of the Civil WarIn the climactic year of 1863, Union armies knifed deep into the South to open the Mississippi River and to win control of all of the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area. At the same time, Lee's chief northern thrust was turned back at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Contri...