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2 days ago · Major-General David Hunter’s 8,500-man Federal Army of the Shenandoah moved southward up Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley toward Staunton, where it was to be joined by Brigadier-General George Crook’s 10,000 Federals advancing from West Virginia.
4 days ago · The Battle of Five Forks was fought in Virginia between Union and Confederate forces on April 1, 1865. Union forces overwhelmed the Confederates in what was one of the final major engagements of the American Civil War.
2 days ago · If the American literature that Emerson had summoned into being in the 1830s and '40s helped galvanize opinion that led to the Civil War, the Civil War in turn changed what that literature would be, and this poem by Whitman is just an example of that.
5 days ago · Civil War Documents. Includes official records of the Union and Confederate Navies, as well as reports and correspondence of the War of the Rebellion. Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints. Images include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects.
4 days ago · In 1893, Washington Post correspondent Leslie J. Perry had an opportunity to do something that modern historians would kill to have: a sitdown interview with a Civil War soldier. In particular, this interview was with one of the Confederacy’s top soldiers, James Longstreet.
5 days ago · When the full-scale Confederate assault erupted late on the 2nd on the southern portion of the field, Union units on the ridge were shifted into the fight. The Confederates, attacking to the north, soon moved against the Union center. Brig.
3 days ago · GHENT, WV (WVNS) — On June 3, 1861, the bloodiest war fought on American soil commenced with a bang: the Battle of Philippi, also known as the “Philippi Races.”
