On June 9, 1863, the Battle of Brandy Station, also known as the Battle of Fleetwood Hill, took place in Culpeper County, Virginia. Early in the morning, Union Major General Alfred Pleasonton and his forces began a surprise attack on the Confederates and General James Ewell Brown Stuart. Brandy Station was one of the largest cavalry battles […]
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Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863
Posted by mckelveb Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Places to Visit, Recent Scholarshipno comment
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The Battle of Oak Grove took place on June 25, 1862 in Henrico County, Virginia and marked the beginning of the Seven Days’ Battles that were part of the Peninsula campaign of 1862, a grand scheme to destroy the Rebel army in Richmond and effectively end the Civil War. Union Major General George B. McClellan […]
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Captain James Colwell
Posted by sailerd Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Historic Periodicals, Letters & DiariesJames Smith Colwell, who worked as a lawyer in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was one of the men who answered President Abraham Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers after Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Colwell joined the Carlisle Fencibles, a local volunteer company under the command of Robert Henderson, as a first lieutenant. […]
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The Siege and Battle of Corinth, May and October 1862
Posted by rothenbb Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Lesson Plans, Places to VisitCorinth, Mississippi, founded in 1854, became an important site for Union and Confederate troops following the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard of the Confederate army set his troops in Corinth in April 1862 until a much larger force led by Maj. Gen. Henry Halleck followed and began to encroach on the Confederate […]
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Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, June 26, 1862
Posted by mckelveb Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Maps, Places to VisitThe Battle of Beaver Dam Creek (also known as the Battle of Mechanicsville) took place on June 26, 1862 in Hanover County, Virginia as a part of the Peninsula Campaign. During this battle, the second of the Seven Days’ Battles, Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his forces attacked Union Brigadier General Fitz John Porter […]
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Hallowed Grounds Google Map
Posted by solnitr Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Maps, Places to VisitUsing free tools from Google Maps, we have launched a dynamic new map of Pennysylvania’s hallowed grounds that attempts to chart the burial locations of black soldiers from Pennsylvania who fought in the Civil War. In particular, this map-in-progress highlights cemeteries that hold the remains of the 100 Voices, or representative figures being memorialized by […]
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Battle of Spotsylvania, May 8-21, 1864
Posted by mckelveb Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Images, Letters & Diaries, Maps, Places to VisitThe Battle of Spotsylvania took place from May 8-21, 1864 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia following the Battle of the Wilderness. Union General Ulysses S. Grant and his forces attacked Confederate General Robert E. Lee during Grant’s attempt to advance to Richmond. Although the fighting was fierce the Confederate Army was unable to stop the progress […]
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The Underground Railroad in Columbia, Pennsylvania
Posted by solnitr Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images, Places to Visit, Rare BooksNineteenth-century historian Robert Clemens Smedley labeled the town of Columbia, Pennsylvania as the birthplace of the organized structure that we now know as the Underground Railroad. Smedley’s posthumously published account of the Underground Railroad’s presence in Pennsylvania, History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania (1883), is available on Dickinson […]
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The Soldiers Monument in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was created in a post war effort to honor the Cumberland County soldiers who died as a result of the Civil War. The efforts to build the monument were initiated by the Soldiers Monument Association in early January 1867, which included General Lemuel Todd as Chair, General Robert Miller Henderson as President, and […]
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The Battle of Fort Henry: February 6, 1862
Posted by rainwatj Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Images, MapsOn February 6, 1862, Union Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant and Union Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote scored the first major victory for the Union Army in the Western Theater in the battle of Fort Henry along the Tennessee River near Stewart County and Henry County, Tennessee and Calloway County, Kentucky. Inundated by recent rain […]
