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Sam Davis (October 6, 1842 – November 27, 1863) [1] was a Confederate soldier executed by Union forces in Pulaski, Tennessee, during the American Civil War.He is popularly known as the Boy Hero of the Confederacy, although he was 21 when he died.
The war-torn nation then entered the Reconstruction era in an attempt to rebuild the country, bring the former Confederate states back into the United States, and grant civil rights to freed slaves. The war is one of the most extensively studied and written about episodes in the history of the United States.
Funeral of André Cailloux in New Orleans, July 29, 1863, from the August 29, 1863, edition of Harpers Weekly. André Cailloux (August 25, 1825 – May 27, 1863) was an African American army captain, one of the first black officers of any North American military unit. [1]
Lucy Higgs Nichols foraged herbs and gave medicine to soldiers from Indiana's 23rd Infantry during the Civil War, 1862–1865. Lucy's first husband came into the Union lines as a laborer under General Grant , or may have possibly served in a colored regiment that was formed; but it is not known what happened to him.
You cannot make soldiers of slaves, nor slaves of soldiers... The day you make soldiers of [Negroes] is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If slaves will make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong – but they won't make soldiers. [64] [2] Robert M. T. Hunter wrote "What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?"
Samuel Rush Watkins (June 26, 1839 – July 20, 1901) was an American writer and humorist. He fought through the entire American Civil War and saw action in many battles. . Today, he is best known for his memoir "Co. Aytch" (1882), which recounts his life as a soldier in the 1st Tennessee Infantry Regi
William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865) was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War.. Quantrill experienced a turbulent childhood, became a schoolteacher, and joined a group of bandits who roamed the Missouri and Kansas countryside to apprehend escaped slaves.
When the Civil War began, Captain Armistead was in command of the small garrison at the New San Diego Depot [12] in San Diego, which was occupied in 1860. He was a close friend of Winfield Scott Hancock, serving with him as a quartermaster in Los Angeles, before the Civil War. Accounts say that in a farewell party before leaving to join the ...