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The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama (2014); Scholarly articles on specialty topics; excerpt; Rein, Christopher M.. Alabamians in Blue: Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State (LSU Press, 2019). 312 pp. online review; Rigdon, John. A Guide to Alabama Civil War Research (2011) Severance, Ben H.
Greensboro is a city in Hale County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 2,497, [ 2 ] down from 2,731 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Hale County, Alabama , which was not organized until 1867.
The first and last significant battles of the war were held in Virginia, the first being the First Battle of Bull Run and the last being the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse. From May 1861 to April 1865, Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy.
The area was the site of many battles and bloodshed. The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary army for the Confederate States of America in the east. Owing to the regions proximity to Washington D.C and the Potomac River, the armies of both sides frequently occupied and traversed Northern Virginia.
The Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, also known as the Battle of Mechanicsville or Ellerson's Mill, took place on June 26, 1862, in Hanover County, Virginia.It was the first major engagement [5] of the Seven Days Battles during the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War and the start of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's counter-offensive against the Union Army of the Potomac, under Maj. Gen ...
15th Alabama Infantry flag. The 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment was a Confederate volunteer infantry unit from the state of Alabama during the American Civil War.Recruited from six counties in the southeastern part of the state, it fought mostly with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, though it also saw brief service with Braxton Bragg and the Army of Tennessee in late 1863 before ...
The Battle of Gaines' Mill, sometimes known as the Battle of Chickahominy River, took place on June 27, 1862, in Hanover County, Virginia, as the third of the Seven Days Battles which together decided the outcome of the Union's Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.
The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) was fought on October 27–28, 1864, in Henrico County, Virginia, as part of the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign of the American Civil War.