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Line engraving, published circa the 1860s, depicting USS Varuna continuing to fire at Confederate forces as she sank, during the battle off Forts Jackson and St. Philip, below New Orleans, Louisiana, on 24 April 1862. The Capture of New Orleans, 1862. On April 24, 1862, Federal gunboats made their way past two Confederate forts to ascend the ...
This map, published by the Philadelphia Inquirer on April 30, 1862, shows the forts and other defenses standing between Captain David Farragut’s (1801–1870) naval squadron and the Confederacy’s largest city, New Orleans, a prime target in the Union’s quest to control the Mississippi River.
The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War fought on April 6–7, 1862. The fighting took place in southwestern Tennessee, which was part of the war's Western Theater. The battlefield is located between a small, undistinguished church named Shiloh and Pittsburg Landing on ...
Apr 6, 2024 · Victory Goes to the Union. Union naval officer David Farragut (above) famously captured New Orleans in 1862 and aided in the capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1863. Source: Library of Congress. The largest city of the Confederacy, New Orleans, was key to stopping Southern international trade and gaining control of the Mississippi River ...
The Battle of Antietam (/ æ n ˈ t iː t əm / an-TEE-təm), also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek.
Hardin County, TN | Apr 6 - 7, 1862. The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior. The carnage was unprecedented, with the human toll being the greatest of any war on the American continent up to that date. Union victory. The South’s defeat at Shiloh ended the ...
Apr 24, 2012 · NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Postal Service today issued the second of an annual series of Forever stamps that pay tribute to one of the most searing, traumatic and consequential events in our nation’s history: the American Civil War. The dedicated stamps, The Civil War: 1862, remember the Battle of New Orleans, the first significant achievement ...
