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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 ...
Sanders attended the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1852 to 1856, but was not an outstanding cadet, graduating 41st in his class. West Point Superintendent Robert E. Lee wrote a May 1854 letter announcing Sanders' dismissal, but he managed to avoid dismissal with the help of the U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis.
Pohanka advised on popular television documentaries, such as Civil War Journal on The History Channel [1] and the Ken Burns documentary The Civil War. In addition, he was a reenactor and living historian, serving for over a decade as Captain of Company A of the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry , also known as "Duryée's Zouaves."
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 Texas Civil War Museum in White Settlement, which has been open since 2006 and displays Union and Confederate artifacts, is taking back its decision to close its doors at the end of 2023.. The ...
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]
Ray Richey of the Texas Civil War Museum stands with a coat worn by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on Wednesday, January 30, 2013. The coat and some swords are being added to the collection.
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 ...