Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
View of New York City, 1863 1860 map of New York City. New York City during the American Civil War (1861–1865) was a bustling American city that provided a major source of troops, supplies, equipment and financing for the Union Army.
Fort Schuyler is a preserved 19th century fortification in the New York City borough of the Bronx. It houses a museum, the Stephen B. Luce Library, and the Marine Transportation Department and Administrative offices of the State University of New York Maritime College. It is considered one of the finest examples of early 19th century ...
The Confederate Army of Manhattan was a group of eight Southern operatives who attempted to burn New York City on or after Evacuation Day, November 25, 1864, during the final stages of the American Civil War. [1] In a plot orchestrated by Jacob Thompson, the operatives infiltrated Union territory by way of Canada and made their way to New York ...
The monument was first suggested in 1869. [1] However, little was done to create the monument until 1893 – at a time the memory of the war was fading and there was a wave of nostalgia for the Civil War in the country [1] – when the New York State legislature established a Board of Commissioners for a monument to the soldiers and sailors who had served in the Union Army during the American ...
A civil war has engulfed the United States. An authoritarian federal government, led by a third-term president, is embattled by secessionist movements. Despite the president claiming victory is imminent, it is widely expected that Washington, D.C. will soon be reached by the "Western Forces" (WF) led by Texas and California, while forces of the southeast Florida Alliance are also fast approaching.
A politically charged new thriller in theaters now, Civil War is a film that's been courting some controversy since its South by Southwest premiere in March 2024.From writer-director Alex Garland ...
"Mapping the Civil War: Featuring Rare Maps from the Library of Congress", Fulcrum Publishing, 1992 – Author, with Christopher Nelson and the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. "Myles Keogh: An Irish Dragoon in the 7th Cavalry", Upton & Sons, 1991 – Editor, with John P. Langellier and Kurt Hamilton Cox.
The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198021712. Cook, Adrian (1974). The Armies of the Streets: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813112985. Fry, James Barnet (1885).