For more than a century, the total death toll of the American Civil War was generally accepted to be around 620,000, a number which was first proposed by Union historians William F. Fox and Thomas L. Livermore in 1888. This number was calculated by using enlistment figures, battle reports...
450 men made up the basic British regiment. The battle field array was 8 companies of musketeers lined up in the central front of the battlefield; on the left, a company of light infantry armed with rifles, and on the right a company of grenadiers---usually composed of infantrymen of im...
There has been a great deal of progress since the last update we had all the way back in May of last year, and therefore this introduction will be brief, so that we can get to the good stuff right away. First though, a great deal of gratitude is owed to dstn, Seek & Destroy, and...
1862 consisted of two gunboats and two ironclads under the command of the Confederate Navy, six lightly armed cottonclads and rams under the command of the Confederate Army, as well as two sidewheel cottonclad rams, the Governor Moore and the General Quitman, that were...
passed the Second Confiscation and Militia Act, which, among other things, legalized the enlistment of African American soldiers in the Union army (Black volunteers were already serving in the United States Navy and had served with distinction in the American Revolution and the War of 1812). When...