Civil War in 1861-1865. A good geographical map depicting every minute detail of the region is essential for any army and serves as a deciding factor. It is stated that initially the Confederates restrained themselves from using maps, but defeats at various fronts made them realize the ...
Railroads during the Civil War (1861).U.S. Military Railroads during the Civil War.A United States railroad map, circa 1869. From the 1870 "Official Guide of the Railways." American-Rails.com collection.As previously mentioned, for the significant damage Southern railroads received the B&O was...
America of the Civil War, 1861-1865. McElfresh, 2002. This map shows America during the Civil War period. Folded, double-sided. Sample of the detail.63-2920 Each, folded $14.95Antietam Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862. 1:10,200. ISBN 0-7834-1671-7. The true watershed battle ...
December 1861Lincoln and McClellan Begin Their Struggle January 1862McClellan Confounds the Politicians February 1862Grant Breaks the Kentucky Line March 1862Congress Plans Freedom for the Slave April 1862The Origin And Object Of The War May 1862Charles Sumner wins the argument ...
Abolition of slavery by Congressional action during the Civil War (1861): Admission of Kansas as a free state, 1861 (efforts to admit Kansas as a slave state under the bogusLecompton Constitutionhaving failed during the 1850s) Organization of Colorado, Nevada, and Dakota territories without slaver...
The company had difficulty obtaining strong financial backing and the onset of the Civil War in 1861 further delayed construction. Not until 1865 after the war was over did the Pacific Railroad finally reach Kansas City to the west, the first to so do.A...
The Civil War We call it the United States of America. Why? Because we're a bunch of states who are…united. It's actually pretty straightforward. However, there were times in American history where this unity wasn't as secured. Most notable was the time period from 1861 to 1865, when...
s population and whoseculturehas contributed much to the social fabric of the state. Racial conflict marked the development of the state from theAmerican Civil Warperiod (1861–65) andReconstruction(1865–77) through thecivil rights movementof the 1950s and ’60s. The guarantee ofsuffrage(through...
Confederate States of America, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, following the election of Abraham Lincoln as U.S. president, prompting the American Civil War (1861–65). The Confederacy acted as a separate gov
The American Civil War 1861-1865 The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville John Bell Hood rallied his demoralized troops and marched them off the Tennessee, desperately hoping to draw Sherman after him and forestall the Confederacy's defeat...