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Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
About 100 women were imprisoned at Castle Thunder, since the also-notorious Libby Prison housed only men. Perhaps the most famous imprisoned woman was Dr. Mary E. Walker , a Union surgeon at Chatham Manor in Fredericksburg since the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, whom Confederate pickets arrested as a spy in April 1864 and who was imprisoned ...
Mary and Molly (or "Mollie") Bell were two young women from Pulaski County, Virginia [1] who disguised themselves as men and fought in the American Civil War for the Confederacy. The pair successfully managed to keep their gender hidden from their fellow soldiers and the military for two years while fighting in several major battles, until they ...
The Newburgh Raid was a successful raid by Confederate partisans on Newburgh, Indiana, on July 18, 1862, making it the first town in a northern state to be captured during the American Civil War. Confederate colonel Adam Rankin Johnson led the raid by using a force of only about 35 men he had recruited from nearby Henderson, Kentucky . [ 1 ]
The Civil War has been commemorated in many capacities, ranging from the reenactment of battles to statues and memorial halls erected, films, stamps and coins with Civil War themes being issued, all of which helped to shape public memory. These commemorations occurred in greater numbers on the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the war. [308]
The Battle of Prairie Grove was a battle of the American Civil War fought on December 7, 1862. While tactically indecisive, the battle secured the Union control of northwestern Arkansas . A division of Union troops in the Army of the Frontier , commanded by James G. Blunt , was posted in northwestern Arkansas after winning the Battle of Cane ...
The 12th Louisiana Infantry Regiment was a unit of volunteers recruited in Louisiana that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.Formed in August 1861, the regiment served in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and was unique in that there were 12 companies.
The regiment organized in September 1861 and served during the war in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. The regiment fought at Shiloh , Corinth , and Perryville in 1862. In November 1862, the regiment was consolidated with the 25th Louisiana Infantry Regiment and served at Stones River , Jackson , Chickamauga , and Missionary Ridge ...