The Museum of the Confederacy at 1201 E. Clay Street, Richmond, Virginia, is right next door to the Confederate White House. Jefferson Davis and his family resided there during the Civil War. The Museum is spectacular, and each time I've visited it has taken at least a half-day to vie...
204 The General (1926) 67 min 8.2 *** 34,709 $1.03M After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy line...
Why did the @USArmy ever name taxpayer-funded military bases after traitors in the first place? Some of these Confederate generals were notoriously inept, says reporter (and former Army infantryman) @AlexHortonTX washingtonpost.com/national-secur… ...
Big Round Top Facts about Big Round Top during theBattle Of Gettysburgof theAmerican Civil War Location:Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Dates:July 1-3, 1863 Generals:Union General: George G. Meade | Confederate General: Robert E. Lee Big Round Top Summary:Big Round Top is a rugged hill that formed...
Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery,... read more Abraham Lincoln was a great man. He thought slavery was wrong and went to war against the Confederates. In the end, the Union won, but five days later, he gave ...
The Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history, stopped the first Confederate invasion of the North. It also ensured that European countries would not recognize the Confederacy or provide them with much-needed war supplies. While the later battles at Gettysburg and Vicksburg would se...
But look, every crisis has a catalyst. It was the Tea Party and the Coercive Acts in 1773, it was the election of Lincoln and particularly the Confederate response to it. It was the great crash and the huge change in America that was causing the later use of the Hoover administration an...
During theAmerican Civil War, theBattle of Chancellorsvilletook place in Virginia. Led by Joseph Hooker, the Union had an army of around 130,000 men. They faced a Confederate enemy, led by Robert E. Lee, with only about 60,000 men. Later described as his “perfect battle,” Lee used ...
Well a big part of that has to do, of course, with the fact that the Confederate capitol was moved to Richmond. And On To Richmond was a very early rallying cry for the Union war effort. The major generals who fought here for the Confederacy are well-known, Robert E Lee, of course...
Visit these Civil War related sites in and near Asheville, in the western North Carolina mountains, full of fascinating stories, history and historic buildings.