Union Army

The nature of Coleman’s scouts were reserved for the truly daring, but critical to obtaining intelligence that could aid the Confederacy in gaining an edge on the Union army. This seems all too familiar to the term of a spy, but the misconception between the two is often made, and can be easily corrected. Scouts during these times were easily identifiable, due to the requirement to be uniformed. To be a scout, you had to be known. A spy would be dressed in civilian clothing and would undertake…

beginning of the war, both the North and the South didn’t have a problem with numbers in their military because of the amount of volunteers. Some would do the heroic thing and join because they “wanted to save the Union” or “secure their liberty.” Though many people from the Confederacy and the Union had a large amount of epic soldiers willing to risk their lives, the South forced the first draft of the war in 1862. This draft required three years of service for any unmarried male that was…

Leadership of the forces, and the morale of each army, played an important role in the Union’s victory over the Confederate forces at Fort Donelson. Unity of command was lacking on the Confederate side, and their overall morale was suffering. The Union forces had just completed an easy victory at Fort Henry, and expected to have similar success at Fort Donelson. General Grant also had better working relationships with his senior Officers, and his division commanders were willing to exercise…

from the rows of white canvas. In previous visits to the orchard, soldiers had discovered a kennel of “bloodhounds,” ferocious animals trained for the pursuit of enslaved people and believed by the soldiers to have been used in the apprehension of Union soldiers who escaped from Confederate prison camps. A man named Butler, the owner of the orchard, had threatened peach-seeking soldiers with the dogs. The 22nd, 28th Iowa regiments had been encamped on Shultzer’s Hill with another Iowa…

In and around the town of Gettysburg and Pennsylvania,but the Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. It started on July 1,1863 and ended July 3,1863.General Robert E. Lee waited the approach of Union General George G. Meades forces.On July 1, early Union success faltered as the Confederates fault back against the Iron Brigade and exploited a small federal line at Barlos knoll the following day saw Lee strike the Union flanks which lead to a heavy battle at Devil's Den. some…

drastically. Originally slaves were just needed to dig trenches and help fix forts as well as other simple tasks. This would soon change as the Confederate Army became more desperate for soldiers. Close to half of the men who were military-age were not eligible for military service because they were enslaved. During the second half of the war the Union began to use black soldiers most of whom were escaped southern slaves. This would cause the Confederacy to consider the same idea during the…

I chose the film Gettysburg because it provides a great overview of the battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg is a 1993 American war film. The film tells the story of the battle between the Union and confederate armies during the Civil War. The movie made sure to capture each day of the battle, which lasted three days. I was kind of confused at first because the film had no clear protagonist and antagonist. After all, the film did an outstanding job at representing the dramatic intensity of each…

the Civil War wonderfully portrays the trials of the Union and Confederate soldiers during the campaigns of the Civil War. Mr. Hurst has published two other books about the Civil War, as well as serving as a journalist for several noteworthy newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, the Nashville Tennessean, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Not only is he very reliable with his information about the Civil War, but he also descends from both Union and Confederate soldiers. There are very few men…

chooses to attack the smaller union force south of chicamy. He proposes a complex plain with multiple columns marching on separate approaches. And that was his plain ("Animated Maps of Military History"). The scheduled dawn attack did not begin until 1:00 pm when impatient D.H Hills sent his brigades forward unsupported. In the path of…

journey north was Point Lookout Prison on a spit of land on the land on the Maryland Shore between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay” (Gourley 40). The way a person would get to Andersonville depended on how far away a person was captured. If a Union soldier was captured far from the prison, then the captured soldiers would march in a group surrounded by Confederate soldiers to the closest boxcar that would be able to transport the group to Andersonville prison or they would march to the…