The city of Atlanta was burned by the Union forces of General Sherman. It took a very long time for residents to build back their wealth. Georgia During the Civil War Georgia was one of the first states to secede from the United States of America after the election of Abraham Lincoln. Du...
" thundered Toombs from the Senate floor on January 24, 1860. Located in Washington, Georgia -Visit Robert Toombs House Historic Site Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History- The locomotive General, stolen by Union spy James Andres in the Great Locomotive Chase. Featuring a ...
Lenin considered it "completely certain, that the slightest aid from Finland would have determined the fate of Petrograd". Trotsky anticipated the events leading to the Winter War by saying "We cannot live, year after year, under the persisting threat that general Mannerheim, or someone else ...
There have been so many books written about the American CivilWar, it seems as if every soldier...By ZippYvonne
After the United States entered World War I in 1917, Camp Hancock was built near Augusta, Georgia as a training site for U.S. troops. Camp Hancock was named after Civil War general and native Pennsylvanian Winfield Scott Hancock. According toVeteran Voices Military Research, “Camp Hancock was...
Books on the subject of Civil War era military prisons continue to be published today and is a subject that remains contentious. Case and point – along the road to Andersonville there is still an old Georgia State plaque dedicated to Capt. Henry Wirz – praising him as a hero of the ...
On May 8, 1864, General Sherman left Chattanooga with the 98,000 men of the Army of the Cumberland, the Army of the Tennessee, and the Army of the Ohio on a campaign that wrecked Georgia, re-elected Abraham Lincoln, and decided the outcome of the war. ...
Tubman’s work didn’t end with the Underground Railroad. As a nurse in the Union Army and a spy against the Confederacy, she continued to fight for freedom.
By telling the stories of the navies of the Civil War, we connect people with the past; giving them a better sense of place and time. Located in Columbus, Georgia, the National Civil War Naval Museum overlooks the Chattahoochee River. We house the largest surviving Confederate warship, the ...
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