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Don Troiani (born 1949) is an American painter whose work focuses on his native country's military heritage, mostly from the American Revolution, War of 1812 and American Civil War. His highly realistic and historically accurate oil and watercolor works are most well known in the form of marketed mass-produced printed limited-edition ...
William Price Sanders (August 12, 1833 – November 19, 1863) was an officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War who died at the Siege of Knoxville. Birth and early years [ edit ]
Sanders' Knoxville Raid (June 14–24, 1863) saw 1,500 Union cavalry and mounted infantry led by Colonel William P. Sanders raid East Tennessee before the Knoxville campaign during the American Civil War. The successful raid began at Mount Vernon, Kentucky and moved south, passing near Kingston, Tennessee.
The obverse of the Civil War Battlefields commemorative dollar, designed by Don Troiani, features an infantryman raising a canteen to the lips of a wounded foe. The reverse, designed by John Mercanti, features a quotation from Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the college professor from Maine who became one of the heroes of Gettysburg. [2]
William J. Sanders, paleontologist; William P. Sanders (1833–1863), U.S. soldier; William T. Sanders (1926–2008), anthropologist specialized in archaeology of Mesoamerica; William Bliss Sanders (1841–1896), architect based in Nottingham; William Rutherford Sanders (1828–1881), Scottish pathologist; Bill Sanders (1930-2011), American ...
The Civil War general, who would go down in history for his “March to the Sea,” became close friends with the future President Grant during the war, writing, “From the day I reported to him ...
Touched by Fire: A National Historical Society Photographic Portrait of the Civil War (1985; 2 volumes) Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade (1990) Civil War Journal: The Battles (1998) with Brian C. Pohanka and Don Troiani; Civil War Journal: The Legacies (1999) with Brian C. Pohanka and Don Troiani
Fort Sanders is named for a Civil War-era Union bastion that once stood near the center of the neighborhood, which was the site of a key engagement in 1863. Before the Union occupation of Knoxville began, Fort Sanders was often referred to as “Fort Loudon” by the occupying Confederate troops. [ 1 ]