The Civil War Over Property Rights; On Historic Ground Near Fredericksburg, the Park Service Battles DevelopmentMaryann Haggerty
The United States Military Railroad (Union Army) carries out right-of-way repair on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad near Aquia Creek outside of Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1863. The USMR was a vital asset to the North's war strategy. American-Rails.com collection.The original Pacific ...
Lee to that position on February 6, 1865, when the Confederacy was near collapse. In naval affairs—an area about which he knew little—the Confederate president seldom intervened directly, allowing the competent secretary of the navy, Stephen Mallory, to handle the Southern naval buildup and ...
The Confederacy’s Army of Virginia and theUnited States’s Armyof the Potomac engaged each other throughout the war. The most noteworthyencountersin Virginia included the battles of Bull Run nearManassasin 1861 and 1862; theSeven Days’ Battlesnear Richmond and theBattle of Fredericksburgin 1862...
6, 1833, Patrick county, Va., U.S.—died May 12, 1864, Yellow Tavern, near Richmond, Va.) was a Confederate cavalry officer whose reports of enemy troop movements were of particular value to the Southern command during the American Civil War (1861–65). An 1854 graduate of the U.S....