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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
The Battle of Simmon's Bluff was a minor and bloodless Union victory, fought June 21, 1862, in Meggett, South Carolina, during the American Civil War.. Union forces had laid siege to Charleston, which was being resupplied from a nearby railroad.
Civil War Bookshelf American Civil War historiography and publishing blogged daily by Dimitri Rotov. American Civil War in Alabama, Encyclopedia of Alabama; Grand Valley State University Civil War digital collection; Seven Civil War Stories Your Teacher Never Told You by Eric Johnson, CNN, June 12, 2009
The Battle of New Market was fought on May 15, 1864, in Virginia during the Valley Campaigns of 1864 in the American Civil War.A makeshift Confederate army of 4,100 men defeated the larger Army of the Shenandoah under Major General Franz Sigel, delaying the capture of Staunton by several weeks.
Map of Rivers' Bridge Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. While Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Union armies marched north across South Carolina, about 1,200 Confederates under Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws were posted at the crossing on the Salkehatchie River. Union soldiers began to build bridges to ...
Pre-Civil War, for example, most graduates of the U.S. Military Academy were well-schooled in math and engineering, much less so in military tactics. Many soldiers lacked even rudimentary training ...
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 ...
During the American Civil War, teenaged Union soldier Sheldon Russell "Say" Curtis is left for dead on the battlefield after being wounded in the leg, but is found and rescued by fellow Union soldier Pinkus "Pink" Aylee, a teenaged former slave in the 48th Colored Infantry Regiment who has been separated from his unit. Finding Say delirious ...