Army of the Tennessee

Carolinas Campaign employed total warfare, an essential tactic to defeating the Confederate Army. Union General William T. Sherman’s plan was a key factor in winning the civil war. His plan was to lead a destructive march to the sea and through the Carolinas, a risky idea. On this brutal march Sherman guarantees success with total war; a tactic he pioneered. The resistance that was left to face Sherman’s army was a picnic for him to defeat. The Union’s victory would not have been possible…

other children of his age. However, all this changed when he turned thirteen years old. Houston's father died and his family had to move to another state. “He emigrated with his mother, five brothers, and three sisters to Blount County in Eastern Tennessee, where the family established a farm near Maryville on a tributary of Baker's Creek.” (www.tshaonline.org). Nonetheless, this will only be the beginning of the greatest changes that Houston is going to experience throughout…

dating from April 6th to April 7th of 1862 consisting of more than a total of 23,000 casualties making it the largest battle in the Mississippi Valley campaign during the Civil War. In early 1862, US forces won victories in regions of Kentucky and Tennessee which paved a path for invasion to disassemble Confederate rail communications along important railroads, Memphis & Charleston and Mobile & Ohio. With this conflict, the Confederate commander, General Albert Sidney Johnston, arrived to…

STATES ARMY “The development of the chaplaincy on the American continent, prior to the Revolution, was slow and uneven” (Eugene p, 30). From the time of Martin of Tours to the present, clergymen have accompanied soldiers to the battle line and ministered to them. The Continental congress officially recognized and provided for the appointment and pay of chaplains on 29 July 1775 (FM 1-05, 1-1). Since then, history is replete with stories of chaplains’ gallantry in the Army…

past November, on the twenty-third, Sherman took over the governor's mansion and capitol building. Fort McAllister fell, and Sherman prepared for a siege of Savannah. Confederate lieutenant general Hardee, decided to retreat because he knew his small army could not stand. Sherman telegraphed president Lincoln and told him December 22 that the city had fallen. As a Christmas present, he offered Lincoln Savannah and along with it 25,000 bales of cotton. Sherman had terribly frightened the people…

time of leadership, are his time governing Tennessee, leading an army during the war for Texas independence, his time running Texas and lastly, his time as a member of the Senate for the state of Texas. Houston made decisions based on what he feels is the best for his people in the long run. In 1827, Houston ran for and won Tennessee’s gubernatorial race against Newton Cannon. At this time Houston supported the Constitution and wanted to protect Tennessee from any possibility of the federal…

Virginia 's Shenandoah Valley. The fight was a serial of forth and back of their past positions between the armed forces. Armed force of Potomac (90,000 men under Gen. George G. Meade) and the Confederate armed force (75,000 man of Northern Virginia Army under Gen. Robert E. Lee) met up in a three days of encounters. () The third day Lee requested an assault to the Union 's strengthened focus known as Pickett 's Charge yet it ended up being self-destructive for his armed force. There were…

book “The Coming Fury” explained that “Southern delegates walked out of the democratic conventions, drew armies after them one place of which is Stones River.” The reason why is not known it explains. The second book “Never Call Retreat” says “Winter in Tennessee meant cold, and snow, and rain, and boundless…

taken to the end of the battlefield but instead nursed them where they had collapsed. Missing bullets at the battles Antietam and Fort Wagner, she was recognized as the “Angel of the Battlefield” and was selected superintendent of the nurses in the Army of the James in June 1864, despite her disapproval of the military’s strategy of the…

for less than a year from money troubles. Jackson who was 31 at the time was selected to be a Tennessee superior court judge for six years from 1798 to 1804. In 1801, Jackson helped organize the Order of Freemasons in Tennessee. It was groups that help rise men in Tennessee. In 1804, he retired from the being the judge and moved back to Nashville. In 1804, Jackson was a Major General in the Tennessee. Jackson then fought in the Creek War which lasted from 1813 to 1814. After beating the…