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Jan 8, 2017. #1. William T Sherman's use of " Hard War " made him a hero in the North, and a scoundrel in the South. But his life and career are more complicated than that. The following are some somewhat surprising facts about the man who made Georgia Howl. 1 - He was given his middle name Tecumseh after the Shawnee chief who was an ...
Aug 16, 2015. Jan 19, 2018. #6. Crimea Vet said: I think that most people have heard of Col. Freemantle, the English officer who was an unofficial observer on Lee’s staff at Gettysburg. I have now discovered that Sir Garnet Wolseley also met with Lee and Longstreet.
Jan 16, 2015. Jan 28, 2017. #1. When Major Alexander Biddle of the 121st Pennsylvania arrived alone on Cemetery Hill on the late afternoon of July 1, a quick head count revealed 49 men present in the regiment, which had entered the action earlier in the day with 7 officers and 286 men. An additional officer and about 30 more men would shortly ...
Captain. FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A team of archaeologists is finding shards, nails and other items during a dig at the site of the 19th-century Fayetteville Arsenal, where weapons were made for the Confederate army during the Civil War. The Fayetteville Observer reports the dig that began July 24th resumes Monday and continues through Friday.
(The News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C., February 13, 1884, p.2; Compiled service records of Thomas A. Cowan, Fold3; Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg, by John W. Busey and Travis W. Busey, 2:1089) Private Clinton J. Fuller, Company G, 9th Georgia. Sometimes the fate of a soldier can confound the modern researcher.
Aug 30, 2024. Location. North Carolina. Sep 13, 2024. #1. Four US Navy cannons are displayed in Exeter, New Hampshire. Two of the cannons are displayed at Gilman Park an 11-Inch Dahlgren and a 32-Pounder of 57 Hundredweight. The two other cannon, two 32-Pounders of 4,500 pounds, are displayed in front of the American Independence Museum.
Nov 17, 2017. #1. Diaries are a rich source of information on the daily life of a soldier. While their brevity is a shortcoming, their unvarnished first-hand impressions of the author’s personal experiences over an extended period of time are priceless. They often prove valuable to our understanding of a particular unit’s role in the battle ...
Charleston, S.C.: News and Courier Book Presses, 1882. 180 pp. de Kay, James Tertius. Monitor: The Story of the Revolutionary Ship and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History. New York: Walker & Company, 1997. 247 pp. de Kay, James Tertius. Rebel Raiders, The: The Astonishing History of the Confederacy's Secret Navy. New York ...
Jan 16, 2015. Jun 18, 2017. #6. From his vantage point, Professor Michael Jacobs missed a few weather events in the area, based on soldier accounts. July 1: A light drizzle occurred near Marsh Creek around 6 a.m., and also near Uniontown, Maryland. There was a heavy shower on South Mountain at mid-morning.
Jun 21, 2012. Location. Louisville, KY. Oct 6, 2021. #7. This group of "cadets" were separate from those at the The Citadel. The Charleston Zouave Cadets were recruited as militia, mostly from Charleston and the surrounding area. From the limited reading I have done on them, they only served during the early part of the war before being disbanded.