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The under-cooks meanwhile were enlisted on a permanent basis, ensuring the food was properly cooked in a consistent manner. Their pay was $10 per month (minus $3 for clothing) plus one daily ration. [10] One common dish prepared by Civil War soldiers was Skillygalee, hardtack soaked in water and fried in fat.
The 1863 Battle of Newton's Station and Grierson's cavalry exploits through Mississippi between La Grange, Tennessee and Baton Rouge, Louisiana were the basis of the 1959 movie The Horse Soldiers, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers, and inspired by the earlier 1956 historical fiction novel by Harold ...
Shiloh, 1862: The First Great and Terrible Battle of the Civil War (2011) Jones, James B., ed. Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts (2011) 286 pp; Lepa, Jack H. The Civil War in Tennessee, 1862–1863 (2007) McCaslin, Richard B., ed. Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War (2006)
The Battle of Stones River, also known as the Second Battle of Murfreesboro, was fought from December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, in Middle Tennessee, as the culmination of the Stones River Campaign in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. Of the major battles of the war, Stones River had the highest percentage of casualties on both ...
Campbell's Station is a short distance northwest of Concord. The Battle of Campbell's Station (November 16, 1863) saw Confederate forces under Lieutenant General James Longstreet attack Union troops led by Major General Ambrose Burnside at Campbell's Station (now Farragut), Knox County, Tennessee, during the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War.
Savage was born in 1838 in Davidson County and enlisted in the 11 th Tennessee Infantry. He fought in the battles of Stone’s River, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville and surrendered as a ...
The popular Civil War movie The Horse Soldiers (1959), directed by noted John Ford, and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers, and the Harold Sinclair (1907-1966), earlier novel of historical fiction of the same name published in 1956 on which it is based, are somewhat fictionalized variations of the famous 1863 Grierson's Raid and the Battle of Newton's Station.
Battle reenactments or maneuvers are forbidden on national battlefields now; the last battle reenactment on any Civil War battlefield also occurred at Antietam in 1862, the centennial of the battle.
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