Union Army

of the time. When he was a kid he spent, time learning at the local public schools. When Joe was older he decided to go and study at Valparaiso Male and Female College for two years. When the Civil War began, Joe didn’t hesitate to enlist for the Union Army. Joe was part of Company K of the 73rd Indiana Volunteer. He ended up staying with this command during the entire war. All of Job’s letters are to his future wife Florence, Flora for short. In Job’s first letter…

Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth president of the United States, was a specimen to say the least. He was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During his military career, he was entrusted with the task of leading all U.S. armies in 1864, and he would relentlessly pursue the enemy during the Civil War, which was the key to their victory. In 1869, at age 46, Grant would become the youngest president theretofore. He most certainly influenced the society at the time, despite some of…

the war thoroughly. Brady began his photography career in photography in 1844, opening a Daguerrean Miniature Gallery in New York City (Mathew Brady 's World - A Biographical Timeline). Brady gained permission from president Lincoln to follow the Union troops to document the war in 1861. Mathew Brady, his team and his photographs had a paramount impact on public opinion of the Civil War that continues to this day, a major impact on modern day photojournalism and the future of war time…

risks and plunged into the world in which only men were supposed to be associated. Of the many risks that Boyd took, there was one in particular that left her imprints on American history. After hearing some valuable information from the opposing, Union army, lead by General James Shields, Belle immediately sprang to action and fearlessly made her way to General Thomas J. Jackson. She delivered the message successfully with only a bullet hole in her skirt and told “Stonewall" Jackson the…

general. He was in the top six of his class. Then the Union Government invited him to lead the Tennessee army on his March to the Sea. Also he captured Atlanta on September 2. He became major general in the Battle of Shiloh. William T. Sherman started his 450 mile march on November 15th and used the total war tactic, which means destroy everything in his path, to cut Georgia in half. Sherman split…

soldiers served in the Union Army. Edward Zwick's 1989 film Glory explores one of the Civil War's first all-black volunteer regiment through the narration of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick). After serving at the Battle of Antietam, Colonel Shaw is offered the command of the first all-African-American regiment. During his leadership, Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, are confronted with discrimination from both Confederate soldiers and Union officers. Along with…

General Custer General Custer was known as a Civil War legend. General Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio on December 5,1839. His parents were Emanuel and Marie Custer. Most of his childhood time was spent in Monroe, Michigan where he attended McNeely Norman School. After graduating from high school ,he taught two years of school. After teaching for two years he enrolled to the military academy West Point. After graduating from West Point in 1861 he joined the cavalry unit even though he was…

the most powerful painting that reflect the sorrow of civil war, which is one of the darkest chapters in American history. In this paints we see a Confederate Soldier found his dead brother who fought on the other side of the battlefield with the Union Soldiers. Therefore, the name recognition perfectly describe the scene where one brother recognize his brother corpes on the battlefield in a way expose the reality of the civil war where brothers fought each other. Constant Mayer who is a French…

In August Saint-Gaudens’s masterpiece, Colonel Robert Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Infantry march perpetually southwards towards their impending faith on the sandy shores on Morris Island, South Carolina. The monument recalls the 28th day in May 1863 when “one thousand men strode with swaying steps and swinging flags through the streets of Boston and into glory.” Col. Shaw riding his horse with his back straighten and eyes firmly affixed towards their final resting place. The drummer…

defenders of the last traverse. Within a few minutes the Confederate defeat was unmistakable. Colquitt and his staff rushed back to their rowboats just moments before Abbott's men seized the wharf. Major Reilly held up a white flag and walked into the Union lines to announce the fort would surrender. Just before 2200. General Terry rode to Battery Buchanan to receive the official surrender of the fort from General Whiting. Although this battle took place 150 years ago, Fort Fisher is one of…