Union Army

At about 3:00 pm, the Union soldiers were having trouble, the Confederate soldiers were overwhelming them. Lee’s Lieutenant was General Richard S. Ewell. Ewell came from Northern Virginia. He had lost his leg not too long before Gettysburg, in The Second Battle of Bull Run. That battle had occurred August 28th to August 30th, 1862. Ewell was filling in for Lee’s deceased last Lieutenant, Stonewall Jackson who died in battle. He had big shoes to full, he had Union soldiers running from him and…

The battle was the outcome of the Union army pursuing the South to Virginia, but led to a Confederate victory. After the battle, Grant’s defeated troops were hungry and tired. They used to the railroad system to quickly replenish their supplies, so that they could continue on. As the Northern armies proceeded towards the South, they saw that as an opportunity to sabotage the Confederate railroads because they realized…

When the Civil War commenced on April 12th, 1861, more than 3 million Union and Confederate soldiers geared up for battle. Men from all over America were appointed to go support their side in the war. While their battles are often historically analyzed, well known, and greatly documented, there is one aspect that rarely gets attention: the role of women in the American Civil War. The lives of women were drastically affected by the Civil War. Several disguised themselves as men to be able to join…

middle of the war was The Battle of Cold Harbor. The Battle of Cold Harbor was an extremely blunt battle. It was fought between the Union General Ulysses S. Grant's and the Confederate General Robert E. Lee's armies. Grant's goal for this particular battle was to attack and capture Richmond, the capitol of the Southern Confederate states, while Lee was to fight off Grant's army. This battle started on May 28, 1864 and ended on June 3, 1864 at Cold Harbor, Virginia 10 miles from Richmond. It was…

The Confederate slaughter of the Union at Fredericksburg was so great, that, at the subsequent Battle of Gettysburg, the Unionists shouted “Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!” as they avenged their dead comrades. The Battle of Fredericksburg unfolded in a natural auditorium with the Rappahannock River on the east, and Prospect Hill and Marye’s Heights on the west. This topography prescribed the logistics of the Confederate army and contributed towards its success - and occasional hindrance - to a…

movie and that were other battles such as the Battle of Olustee. Under the command of Colonel Edward Hallowell, the 54th fought a rear-guard action covering the Union retreat at the Battle of Olustee. During the retreat, the unit was suddenly ordered to counter-march back to Ten-Mile station. The locomotive of a train carrying wounded Union soldiers had broken down and the wounded were in danger of capture. When the 54th arrived, the men attached ropes to the engine and cars and manually pulled…

Captain James Totten Introduction Company F of the Second Artillery was under fire at 0100 hours on August 10, 1861, during the battle of Wilson’s Creek, MO. The union soldiers exhibited uncondi-tional courage fighting an unknown. Captain Totten's soldiers led the centerline of the battle with 6 guns in Major Peter J. Osterhuas's battalion, subsequently part of the 1st Brigade. Totten's soldiers were unequivocal in determining the locations of the con-federate's lines. Their leader, Captain…

still one of the most destructive and devastating battles of the Civil War yet and more battles to come. This horrible tragedy started in Atlanta not long ago on November 15, 1864. This battle led all the way to Savannah on December 21, 1864. The Union General William T. Sherman did this to prove that the Confederate government could not protect their people from an aggressor. After William T. Sherman had captured Atlanta on September 2, 1864, he decided to move his base to the coast. President…

black soldiers, one fighting for the Union and the other fighting for the Confederacy, encounter each other during a battle in the Civil War. Tenniel 's cartoon, drawn from the perspective of someone who believed blacks shouldn’t be allowed to join the military, most likely had a variety of targeted audiences, including both Southerners and Northerners, as well as Americans, like Frederick Douglass, who thought that black conscription would both help the Union triumph over the Confederacy and…

The Shiloh National Military Park was established on the 27th of December in 1894 to commemorate the battle that occurred around the Shiloh Church 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…