The entrance of the East Tennessee and Virginia and East Tennessee and Georgia railroads connected the economically isolated region to Virginia and the deep South. This trade network created a southern subculture within East Tennessee. These divisions had deepened and resulted by the Civil War in ...
Dozens of Tennessee Civil War battlefields and sites have become parks and museums in the years since the war. Civil War self-guided tour maps have been produced sending visitors into cities and though the beautiful Tennessee countryside. Be sure to ask for a great tour guide to “A Path Div...
All Right Let Them Come: The Civil War Diary of an East Tennessee Confederate/A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, a Confederate Soldier from Maine/"Fear Was Not in Him": The Civil War Letters of Major General Francis C. Barlow, U.S.A/In the Saddle with the ...
more than a month prior to the war's first major engagement at the "First Battle of Bull Run" (known within the Confederacy as the "Battle of First Manassas") it transported troops from Grafton, Virginia to a location about six miles east of the city to capture the town of Philippi (...
The true watershed battle of the Civil War. Had Robert E. Lee won, foreign intervention might have resulted in Confederate independence. Image size is 16" x 20"; overall size is 18" x 28". One side has the morning battlefield and represents the northern half of the field. The reverse ...
The 'grand-daddy' of Civil War sites and certainly the best known battle, one can visit Gettysburg over and over. The three-day battle over 1-3 July 1863 ended Lee's final invasion of the North, and is often portrayed as the "high water mark" of the Confederacy. The battle's importa...
Army Corps of Engineers Visitors Center- This museum focuses on the role of Cooper's Irons Works in the Civil War.Phone: 678-721-6700 -Locatedat the end of GA Spur 20, at Allatoona Dam -Directions:I-75 to exit 290, then east on Highway 20 to Spur 20 (designated GA 294 on some ...
Wilson, and the other an assessment of guerrilla warfare in East Tennessee by Noel C. Fisher, explore the heretofore largely neglected impact of the Civil War on the Southern Highlands, or Appalachia. These books complement one another, and both serve as worthy guides for those working in this...
The Romans hired and integrated Gothic mercenaries into the legions to such an extent that it became more common for orders to be issued in a Germanic dialect than Latin. History’s leaders realized that the surest way to lose a war was to depend on unmotivated, incompetent, and unreliable ...
Catholics promote advertising through websites that they want to adopt “your baby”. This is trolling for vulnerable women to give up their babies to the possession of adopters to avoid abortion. This is targeting women for their babies. The end result is the destruction of a family for the...