Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Battle of Cool Spring, also known as Castleman's Ferry, Island Ford, Parker's Ford, and Snicker's Ferry, was a battle in the American Civil War fought July 17–18, 1864, in Clarke County, Virginia, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864. The battle was a Confederate victory.
It encompasses 17 contributing buildings, 26 contributing sites, and 11 contributing structures. The district includes the terrain and hydrography over which the Battle of Cool Spring, July 16–20, 1864, was fought and which served to shape the tactical progress of the engagement in time and space. The district also includes the archaeological ...
Hunter resumed the Union offensive and defeated William E. "Grumble" Jones at the Battle of the Piedmont. Jones died in the battle, and Hunter occupied Staunton, Virginia. [3] On June 11 Hunter, who had continued to strike southward, fought at Lexington against John McCausland's Confederate cavalry, which retreated to the mountains around Buchanan.
Battle of Cassville; Battle of Cedar Creek; Centralia Massacre (Missouri) Battle of Chaffin's Farm; Battle of Changzhou; Battle of Chester Station; Chilcotin War; Chincha Islands War; Battle of Cloyd's Mountain; Battle of Cold Harbor; Battle for Colônia Militar dos Dourados; Colorado War; Battle of Columbia; Battle of Cool Spring; Invasion of ...
The 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry then became part of the Eighth Corps when General Crook succeeded Hunter as commander and, on July 18, lost an additional 14 men as it helped to defeat the forces of Early and Breckenridge at Snicker's Gap during the Battle of Cool Spring. Engaged in "a daring charge down the Winchester Pike" on July 24, according ...
The 45th Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in the Commonwealth of Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.It fought mostly in the mountainous area that today encompasses the border regions of Virginia and West Virginia, and was part of Jubal Early's Army of the Valley during the Valley Campaigns of 1864.
Battle of the Twin Villages: 1759 uncertain [1] 114 Kingdom of New Spain vs Wichita [2] Battle of Claremore Mound [3] June 1817 modern Rogers County: 38+ Cherokee vs Osage [4] Cutthroat Gap Massacre [5] Spring 1833 modern Kiowa County: 150 Osage vs Kiowa [6] Battle of Wolf Creek [7] June 1838 modern Ellis County: 72 Cheyenne & Arapaho vs Kiowa ...
Joseph Thoburn (29 April 1825 – 19 October 1864) was an Irish-born American officer and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.An accomplished physician and soldier from the state of West Virginia, he was killed in action in the Shenandoah Valley at the Battle of Cedar Creek.