When the Civil War began in April 1861, there were only 16,000 men in the U.S. Army, and many of these were Southern officers who resigned to join the Confederate States Army. With a drastic shortage of men,President Abraham Lincolncalled on the states to raise a force of 75,000 men...
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Forces Engaged: 2nd Kansas Cavalry, 6th Missouri Cavalry, and two sections of Rabb's 2nd Indiana Battery [US]; Cabell's Brigade [CS] Estimated Casualties: 81 total (US 16; CS 65) Kindle Available Civil War Arkansas, 1863 The Battle for a State The Arkansas River Valley is one of the ...
The McCooks are followed across forty-six battlefields, in eleven states, across land and sea. Their lives are intimately intertwined with the most famous, and infamous, men of the time, including President Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, and General Ulysses S. Grant. 421 pgs. Bib....
In John D. McAulay book “Carbines of the Civil War” he states that in October 1859 the U.S. Navy conducted test firing on the Maynard carbine at the Washington Naval Yard. The test was under the direction of Commander John Dahlgren. Dr. Maynard personally fired a .50 caliber Maynard...
“The balloons of the Civil War were a brief but truly forward-looking glimpse of what the future would bring.” By Charles M. Evans IT HAS OFTENbeen said that the American Civil War was one of the first conflict of the industrial revolution. ...
but would walk through the camp stealing food. Old Abe flew over battlefields—39 in total—and although the Confederates had orders to capture her if possible, the eagle got through the war unscathed. After 1865, she was retired from the Army and given a new home in Madison, Wisconsin, ...
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. ...
As battlefields fell silent in 1865, the question of secession had been answered, slavery had been eradicated, and America was once again territorially united. But in many ways, the conclusion of the Civil War created more questions than answers. How would the nation become one again? Who was...
This dissertation complicates the history of Civil War battlefields managed by the federal government by investigating the relationships between Stones River National Battlefield, African American landowners and park neighbors, and local white Confederate sympathizers.;This study of Rutherford County reveals...