First Manassas: The Battle of Bull Run
•June 23, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
At the First Battle of Bull Run during July 1861, the Federals had a good plan that very nearly worked… More »
•June 23, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
At the First Battle of Bull Run during July 1861, the Federals had a good plan that very nearly worked… More »
•June 21, 2019 • 1 Comment
Few Union men saw more of the Civil War or its principal commanders than Medal of Honor awardee Horace Porter. More »
•April 7, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
The larger-than-life bronze figure of Winfield Scott Hancock astride his horse has been a staple of Gettysburg’s Cemetery Hill for over a century. More »
•February 12, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
Colonel Patrick Kelly was a beloved Union commander who led the Irish Brigade into the Wheatfield at the Battle of Gettysburg. More »
•February 11, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
This Civil War Timeline covers the events in late 1861, in which piecemeal military operations began to take shape, setting the stage for future conflicts between the North and the South. More »
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Everyone, it seemed, got involved in the frenzy for ever-more-fancy uniforms and accoutrements, from Napoleon on down. More »
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Ulysses S. Grant was working as a clerk in his family’s leather business in Galena, Illinois when the first shots of the American Civil War were fired. More »
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“The Anaconda Plan” was devised by General Winfield Scott and President Lincoln to squeeze the Confederacy into submission by blockading the South’s seaports. More »
•January 31, 2019 • 1 Comment
On September 20, 1846, Colonel Jefferson Davis and a regiment of untested Mississippi volunteers stood before the fortress of La Teneria in Northern Mexico. More »
