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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.
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.
There certainly are Good and Bad preservation circumstances all around Winchester. The Third Winchester Route 7 Berryville Pike is gone, but the Red Bud Run area is spectacular! A piece here and a piece there is helpful, like the West Fort and Rutherford Farm interpretative signs. The Star Fort is a big save to me.
As the writer tells it, Pickett's wife gave birth to a son in the winter of 1864 while the general and his men were besieged at Petersburg. The story tells that Pickett's men, on hearing the glad news, celebrated by lighting large bonfires inside their camps. The fires alarmed Union Gen. Grant until he heard why Pickett's men were celebrating.