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2 days ago · Civil War Battles for the Year 1862. In 1862 the armed forces of the United States undertook the first massive campaigns to defeat the southern Confederacy. Better organization, training, and leadership would be displayed on both sides as the combat became more intense. Young American citizen soldiers would find that war was not a romantic ...
- 1865 Raids & Skirmishes
April 21, 1865 in Millwood, Virginia (The Disbanding of Maj....
- 6th-7Th, Shiloh, Tennessee
Grant's orders from Halleck were to link up with Buell's...
- Order of Succession
Mississippi Secedes from Union . January 9, 1861 in Jackson,...
- Second
Civil War Battle of Manassas/Bull Run (Second), August...
- 1St, Port Royal Ferry, South Carolina
The battle of was a brisk fight at Port Royal Ferry, about...
- 1865 Raids & Skirmishes
6 days ago · Civil War Battles for the Year 1864. From Bull Run to Chattanooga, the Union armies had fought their battles without benefit of either a grand strategy or a supreme field commander. During the final year of the war the people of the North grew restless, and as the election of 1864 approached, many of them advocated a policy of making peace with ...
May 17, 2024 · Civil War Battles for the Year 1863. At the beginning of 1863 the Confederacy seemed to have a fair chance of ultimate success on the battlefield. But during this year three great campaigns would take place that would shape the outcome of the war in favor of the North. One would see the final solution to the control of the Mississippi River.
1 day ago · Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the ...
4 days ago · Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army. He led the Army of Northern Virginia —the Confederacy's most powerful army—from 1862 until its surrender in 1865, earning a ...
- 1829–1861 (U.S.), 1861–1865 (C.S.)
5 days ago · May 8, 2024, 1:46 AM ET (New York Times) An Overlooked War. civil war, a violent conflict between a state and one or more organized non-state actors in the state’s territory. Civil wars are thus distinguished from interstate conflicts (in which states fight other states), violent conflicts or riots not involving states (sometimes labeled ...
2 days ago · One of the sad stories of the war involved the Culp family. Two of Henry Culp's nephews were brothers: John Wesley Culp and William Culp. Wesley joined the Confederate States Army and William the Union Army. Wesley's regiment, the 2nd Virginia Infantry, fought at Culp's Hill, and he was killed in the fighting on his family property on July 3.
