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The Union Navy in 1861 was relatively small but, by 1865, expanded rapidly to 6,000 officers, 45,000 sailors, and 671 vessels totaling 510,396 tons. [99] [100] Its mission was to blockade Confederate ports, control the river system, defend against Confederate raiders on the high seas, and be ready for a possible war with the British Royal Navy ...
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
The 1st Maryland Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the Confederate army, formed shortly after the commencement of the American Civil War in April 1861. The unit was made up of volunteers from Maryland who, despite their home state remaining in the Union during the war, chose instead to fight for the Confederacy.
The 13th Illinois Infantry was mustered into federal service by Captain John Pope at Camp Dement, Dixon, Illinois, on May 24, 1861, for a three-year term.The Thirteenth was the first Regiment organized from the Second Congressional District of Northern Illinois.
Vautier, John D. History of the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War for the Union, 1861-1865 (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company), 1894. Attribution. This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.
Colonel Henry Kumler McConnell- promoted to Brevet Brigadier General, March 13, 1865; mustered out with regiment November 30, 1865; Lieutenant Colonel James H. Hart - commanded at Battle of Nashville (not to be confused with Major James H. Hart of the 1st New Jersey Cavalry) Captain William H. McClure - commanded at Battle of Nashville
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
The concept of a 'people's war,' first described by Clausewitz in his classic treatise On War, was the closest example of a mass guerrilla movement in the 19th century.In general during the American Civil War, this type of irregular warfare was conducted in the hinterland of the border states (Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and northwestern Virginia / West Virginia).