battle of Chattanooga,Chattanooga- in the American Civil War (1863) the Union armies of Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman under the command of Ulysses S. Grant won a decisive victory over the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg battle of Chickamauga,Chickamauga- a Confederate victory in the American...
Both the Union and Confederate armies forbade the enlistment of women. Women soldiers of the Civil War therefore assumed masculine names, disguised themselves as men, and hid the fact they were female. Because they passed as men, it is impossible to know with any certainty how many women soldi...
on paroled and exchanged who served in the Confederate States Army consist of one or more card abstracts and sometimes one or more original documents. Each card abstract copies an entry in original records, such as Confederate muster rolls, returns,and descriptive rolls and Union prison and ...
Most of the major Confederate armies had surrendered to the Union by 1865. The war ended on May 10, 1865, when the union captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who was on the run in Georgia at the time. At that time, the rebuilding process began, but it took a long time for ...
Hess in The Civil War in the West. Hess, who has produced a number of valuable studies, brings his remarkable analytical skills to bear to highlight the manner in which Union and Confederate armies overcame, or failed to overcome, the many obstacles inherent in conducting military campaigns in...
The United States of America, also known as the Union Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy When Did the Civil War Take Place? The Civil War took place between 1861 and 1865. Unlike other wars in history, there was no treaty that ended the Civil War and it instead...
One cliche is that all stories have three sides. For Civil War studies, those might be the "Union side," the "Confederate side," and some mysterious "truth." The sources that Masters found and used tell the views of the Union and Confederate soldiers, and the author's analysis of the ...
Jay Cooke helped finance the Union cause, and Thaddeus Stevens was an important congressional leader. Administration of military affairs during the war was directed by two Pennsylvanians: first by Simon Cameron, who resigned his seat in the U. S. Senate to become President Lincoln's first ...
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Alfred E. Lee's Civil War. On Campaign with the Armies of the Potomac and the Cumberland Captain Alfred E. Lee 82nd OVI. Edited by Daniel A. Masters. Alfred Emory Lee, an aspiring attorney recently graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, resolved to do his part to restore the Union. ...