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2 days ago · In total, the war left between 620,000 and 750,000 soldiers dead, along with an undetermined number of civilian casualties, making the Civil War the deadliest military conflict in American history. The technology and brutality of the Civil War foreshadowed the coming World Wars.
2 days ago · It is one thing to drive the rebels from the south bank of the Potomac, or even to occupy Richmond, but another to reduce and hold in permanent subjection a tract of country nearly as large as Russia in Europe. . . No war of independence ever terminated unsuccessfully except where the disparity of force was far greater than it is in this case. . .
5 days ago · The Battle of Cold Harbor. June 3, 2024 WalterCoffey Military, Virginia Leave a comment. Before dawn, General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant, the overall Federal commander of Major-General George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac, concentrated three Federal corps on a north-south line in front of New Cold Harbor: Major-General William F. “Baldy ...
3 days ago · The battle was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of what is now the city of Manassas and about thirty miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C. The Union Army was slow in positioning themselves, allowing Confederate reinforcements time to arrive by rail.
2 days ago · The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
4 days ago · Time Period: May 9-24, 1864. Area: Virginia. On May 9th, 3 Union cavalry divisions (12,000 troopers) and 32 cannons, riding in a column stretching 13 miles, abandoned the army's lines around Spotsylvania Court House.
5 days ago · Nearly 300 pages of Charles City County records that were pilfered by Union soldiers during the Civil War have returned to Virginia — filling in some of the blanks on wills, deeds and other...
