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Site of Morgan's surrender, sketched by Henry Howe from an 1886 photograph. Morgan encountered Capt. James Burbeck, one of Lisbon's militia commanders, along the road. [citation needed] Morgan convinced Burbeck to allow him to surrender his command, provided Burbick promised to take the sick and wounded soldiers and allow Morgan and his officers to be paroled so they could return home to Kentucky.
The Falling Flag: Evacuation of Richmond, Retreat and Surrender at Appomattox, E.T. Hale, 1874 Bradford, Ned, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War , Gramercy Books, 1988, ISBN 0-517-29820-1 Chaffin, Tom, Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah , Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, ISBN 0-8090-8504-6
2nd, 21st, and 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment led by James J. Andrews: During the American Civil War, James J. Andrews and his men commandeered a Confederate train known as The General. [1] Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: 14 October 1864 Confederate Guerrillas: A party of Confederate guerrillas robbed a train and burned the cars. [2]
The final campaign for Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States, began when the Union Army of the Potomac crossed the James River in June 1864. The armies under the command of Lieutenant General and General in Chief Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) laid siege to Petersburg, south of Richmond, intending to cut the two cities' supply lines and force the Confederates to evacuate.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
The Ladies' Memorial Association of Montgomery, Alabama: its origin and organization, 1860–1870. Alabama Printing Co. Janney, Caroline E. (2006). " 'The Right to Love and to Mourn': The Origins of Virginia's Ladies Memorial Associations, 1865–1867". In Edward L. Ayers (ed.). Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration.
A young mother teaching her son to read. A former college football player "on top of the world" living in New York City. An 18-year-old aspiring nurse. A father of two remembered as the "life of ...
The Franklin County Coroner’s Office said the 53-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene, just outside Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Sunday. According to the commencement program, the woman's ...