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4 days ago · Confederate Strategy The Confederate commander at Manassas was Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, the dapper, voluble hero of Fort Sumter, Napoleonic in manner and aspiration. Heading the Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley was Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, a small, impeccably attired, ambitious but cautious man with a piercing gaze and an ...
2 days ago · The log structure — located in the historic Medley District at 19923 Fisher Ave. — was built in 1793 by John Poole Jr. and served as a trading post for merchants and families from the surrounding farms and plantations. APPOMATTOX, Va.: On the grounds of The American Civil War Museum, where fighting swirled in April 1865.
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3 days ago · As the months passed, a series of additional armies were formed along the line of the Ohio and upper Mississippi--the armies of the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Frontier, Kansas, the Mississippi, the Mountain, the Southwest, the Tennessee, the West Tennessee, and, near the end of the war, the Shenandoah, finally 15 in all (the Confederacy formed ...
3 days ago · DIED. July 13, 1881. Penllyn, Pennsylvania. ARMY. Confederate. Born August 10, 1814, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, John Clifford Pemberton's marriage to a Virginia woman influenced him to fight for the South. By wars end, he had become one of the Confederacy's most controversial generals. He started West Point in 1833 and graduated in 1837.
3 days ago · Eisenhower's Gettysburg home became a second White House during his years as president. 7. The Fifth New Hampshire monument, one of the most unusual monuments on the field, is near Rose's Woods.
16 hours ago · The northern shore of Roanoke Island, where the Lane and White colonies were located, lost 928 feet (283 m) between 1851 and 1970. Extrapolating from this trend back to the 1580s, it is likely that portions of the settlements are now underwater, along with any artifacts or signs of life.
16 hours ago · These were southern slave states on or near the border of the Confederacy that did not secede or only partially seceded from the U.S. in the 1860s. Large numbers of residents who joined both the Union and Confederate armed forces.
