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As part of the Jean Lafitte National Historic Site and Preserve, the Chalmette Battlefield preserves and interprets the site of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. Visitors can learn more about the battle and the War of 1812 at the Visitor Center or via a self-guided walking tour of the battlefield. In addition, they climb the Chalmette Monument, a ...
Spotsylvania County, Va. Chancellorsville | May 1, 1863 American Battlefield Trust. In the last days of April, 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker led three army corps on a movement to turn the Confederate left flank by crossing the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers above Fredericksburg. Passing the Rapidan via Germanna and Ely’s Fords (three miles ...
New Orleans in the American Civil War. New Orleans, Louisiana, was the largest city in the South, providing military supplies and thousands of troops for the Confederate States Army. Its location near the mouth of the Mississippi made it a prime target for the Union, both for controlling the huge waterway and crippling the Confederacy's vital ...
In the case of the battlefield, site of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, and the cemetery, established during the Civil War, it took vision, pecans, soap and generations of community members dedicated to saving their heritage. The story began as the War of 1812 was drawing to a close. British troops landed just south of New Orleans in December 1814.
Map. New map of the seat of war in Virginia and Maryland [Scale ca. 1:360,000]. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 478 Another issue. This issue contains the following additions: a) Washington is described as being "Surrounded by forts, batteries, and redoubts." b) Fredericksburg is labeled "H. 2 Rebel forces, Dec. 1862."
Apr 12, 2023 · G. T. Beauregard (also known as Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War (1861–1865) and, after helping engineer victory at the First Battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861, one of the Confederacy’s first war heroes. Raised in an aristocratic French home in New Orleans, Louisiana, Beauregard ...
Valverde, New Mexico | Feb 21, 1862. Fought in a dried riverbank of the Rio Grande with the backdrop of a large desert mesa, the Battle of Valverde paradoxically revealed the later actualization theme of the Union’s persevering strength over the Confederate troops in the west.
