Battlefields of the Civil War Map. Bella Terra, 2011. Bella Terra, in cooperation with National Geographic, updates to bring this highly informative map back into print in time for the Civil War Sesquicentennial. It was first published as a supplement to National Geographic Magazine on the 100...
Shiloh is one of the most dramatic battlefields in the country. Walk the banks of the Tennessee River, along which more than 100,000 soldiers fought more than 150 years ago. Points of interest: Famous spots like the Hornet’s Nest and Bloody Pond are close to one another. Count the numbe...
This past August Army Private Sandy Wills was buried with full military honors at a veterans' cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. Private Wills served his country, though not in this century, or the last. He died in 1889. He was originally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, a Civil War vete...
Shortly after the War and continuing to the present, monuments or memorials have been erected to commemorate the service of Civil War Veterans. We have identified over 400 monuments in Iowa. Please take an opportunity to visit these memorials to honor the Veterans who fought and died for their...
Franklin. Tennessee. 2011. O'MoreAs Near Hell As I Ever Expect To Be.: The Civil War letters of Lieutenant John V. Patterson of the 21st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry Edited with Commentary by Paul G. Tremewan. 248 pgs. Hardbound & Softbound. Xlibris Corp. Bloomington. Indiana. ...
While hundreds of marchers continued to be jailed on Southern civil rights battlefields that June, King and his associates were pulled toward the vastly more complex second front that Watts would soon represent: the urban non-South. Northern industrial cities into which waves of African Americans ...
battlefield park of this quality and magnitude could be found in any other location in the world. Most of the 1,400 monuments and historical markers on the battlefields were planned and placed by Boynton and other veterans of the battles.Visit Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Parks....
Grant's conclusive campaign that extends to April 1865. In between the two battlefields is Chancellorsville, fought the preceding year (4 May 1863). Because these locales are intertwined, it is difficult to interpret and a bit difficult to visit these battlefields. Spotsylvania has more fields ...
As the man in charge of the operation of the railroads in the field, he seemed to work magic in getting troops and supplies to the battlefields and rapidly reconstructing bridges and tracks. But he was hard to get along with. His uncompromising approach to his job enabled him to ...
Railroad always ran north to freedom in Canada. In fact, for a very few years during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the route to freedom proceeded south from Canada to the free territories of the Old Northwest. Once the war ended, the route turned north to freedom in ...