New Orleans fell early in the war, just one year after Fort Sumter. Union General Benjamin "Beast" Butler silenced the Confederate voices for the most part, making way for new journalism from an affluent but disenfranchised community of Free People of Color. It was the beginning of the Black...
1st Regiment Infantry Organized at Camp Lincoln, Fort Leavenworth, May 20 to June 3, 1861. Moved to Wyandotte, thence to Kansas City and Clinton, Mo., to Join General Lyon, June 7-July 13, 1861. Attached to Dietzler's Brigade, Lyon's Army of the West. Advance on Springfield July. Ac...
SERVICE.--March to Springfield, Mo., September 10-24, 1862; thence to Cassville October 11-14. Expedition to Cross Hollows over Boston Mountains October 17-24. March to Wilson's Creek November 4-22. Forced march to relief of General Blount December 3-6. Battle of Prairie Grove, Ark., ...
1861, La Mountain received a letter fromMajor General Benjamin Butler, the politician-general who would later earn the sobriquet “Beast Butler” for his harsh reputation as military governor of New Orleans.
Much difficult fighting on land and sea remained. The United States adopted a Twin-Axis strategy designed to give the army and navy equal roles. While General Douglas MacArthur advanced through New Guinea in the southwest Pacific, neutralizing the major Japanese base at Rabaul to prepare for the...
In September, Bryant left the command of the 51st and took on a new assignment: colonel and commander of the 46th U.S. Colored Infantry. This was significant proof of his ability, mainly because the unit had been notoriously hard to discipline. Brigadier General John P. Hawkins, in recomm...
Benjamin F. Butler was an American politician and army officer during the American Civil War (1861–65) who championed the rights of workers and black people. A prominent attorney at Lowell, Mass., Butler served two terms in the state legislature (1853,
As early as August 1861, though, slaveholders’ claims to property rights had begun to erode whenCongresspassed its First Confiscation Act, which allowed Union troops to seize rebels’ property, including slaves who fought with or worked for the Confederate military. One Union general,Benjamin But...