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The Battle of Hartsville was fought on December 7, 1862, in northern Tennessee at the opening of the Stones River Campaign the American Civil War . Guarding the river crossing at Hartsville was the 39th Brigade, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland , consisting of the 106th Ohio Infantry, 108th Ohio Infantry, 104th Illinois Infantry, and 2nd Indiana Cavalry. The brigade was commanded by Col. Absa...
The Battle of Stones River (also known as the Second Battle of Murfreesboro) was a battle fought from December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, in Middle Tennessee, as the culmination of the Stones River Campaign in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. Of the major battles of the war, Stones River had the highest percentage of casualties on both sides. Although the battle itself was inco...
The Battle of Thompson's Station was a battle of the American Civil War , occurring on March 5, 1863 in Williamson County, Tennessee . In a period of relative inactivity following the Battle of Stones River , a reinforced Union infantry brigade, under Col. John Coburn , left Franklin to reconnoiter south toward Columbia. Four miles from Spring Hill, Coburn attacked with his right wing, a Confe...
Military History Journal Vol 9 No 3 - June 1993 (incorporating Museum Review) THE BATTLE OF SILKAATSNEK - 11 JULY 1900 by I.B. Copley, Dept. Neurosurgery, Medunsa Introduction After the fall of Pretoria on 5 June 1900, the British forces found themselves in command of most strategic points, but with enormously extended lines of communication. In the Western Transvaal, communications were mainta...
The 59th Illinois Infantry was originally organized as the "Washington Zouaves" at the St. Louis Arsenal, and was intended to form a Missouri "Zouave Brigade" in association with the 8th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. However, it was subsequently organized and uniformed as a standard infantry regiment and mustered into Federal service on September 18, 1861, as the 9th Missouri Volunteers. While o...
The Army of the Cumberland was one of the principal Union armies in the Western Theater during the American Civil War. It was originally known as the Army of the Ohio .===History===The origin of the Army of the Cumberland dates back to the creation of the Army of the Ohio in November 1861, under the command of Brig. Gen. Robert Anderson. The army fought under the name Army of the Ohio until Maj...
21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Mostly an all-volunteer unit, with the exception of a few draftees, the 21st Ohio served for both ninety-day and three-year enlistments and fought exclusively in the Western Theater. It saw action in some of the war's bloodiest battles including Stones River, Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign,...
The 64th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 64th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.The 64th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Buckingham in Mansfield, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on November 9, 1861 under the command of Colonel James William Forsyth. The regiment was recruited in Ashland, Clark, Crawford, Marion, Richland, Stark, Van Wert,...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Official Website Rutherford County was formed in 1803 and was named in honor of Griffith Rutherford (1721–1805). Rutherford was a North Carolina colonial legislator and an American Revolutionary War general, who settled in Middle Tennessee after the Revolution. He was appointed President of the Council...
Please click the photo for a detailed explanation of the historical context. If anyone has any other pictures of the SC 10th Reg Inf that are less instigating/offensive please submit them (along with citation) for use. We cannot change our history but we can certainly learn from it. 10th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Marion, near Georgetown, South Carolina, in July, 1861. Its members ...
This project seeks to document the Jewish families of Tábor (Tabor, Bohemia, Czech Republic) Jewish history: [ ]From the International Jewish Cemetery Project:"A Jewish community founded in the early 1600's built a synagogue [scroll down for photo] in the late 1800's (Jewish population of 455 in 1884) that was closed down by the Nazis in October 1941. The town, used as a transit camp for deport...
The 15th Regiment of Alabama Infantry was a Confederate volunteer infantry unit from the state of Alabama during the American Civil War. Recruited from six counties in the southeastern part of the state, it fought mostly with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, though it also saw brief service with Braxton Bragg and the Army of Tennessee in late 1863 before returning to Virginia in early...
The Richmond Cemetery is a spot of natural beauty and great historic interest not far from downtown. It is seventy acres of rolling knolls and large handsome trees with winding roads throughout. Enclosed by a fence made from the finest Swedish steel, which during the Civil War surrounded the Richmond Courthouse, it lies quietly behind large imposing gates. The beauty of the cemetery is enhanced...
Wikipedia The army was formed on November 20, 1862, when General Braxton Bragg renamed the former Army of Mississippi and was divided into two corps commanded by Polk and William J. Hardee. A third corps was formed from troops from the Department of East Tennessee and commanded by Edmund Kirby Smith; it was disbanded in early December after one of its two divisions was sent to Mississippi. Th...
Two corps of the Union Army were called Cavalry Corps during the American Civil War. One served with the Army of the Potomac ; the other served in the various armies of the West.=Overview=In contrast to the Confederacy, which early on spawned such brilliant cavalry leaders as J.E.B. Stuart, Nathan B. Forrest, and John S. Mosby, the Union high command initially failed to understand the proper wa...
The 9th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Service The Ninth Michigan Infantry organized at Fort Wayne (Detroit), near Detroit, Michigan, from independent companies recruited throughout the state, and mustered into Federal service for a three-year enlistment on October 15, 1861. The Regiment was under the com...
Shaka's Story := Early life Bhebhe , the past chief of the Elangeni tribe, born near present day Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal Province. He was conceived out of wedlock somewhere between 1781 and 1787.Shaka spent his childhood in his mother's settlements. He is recorded as having been initiated there and inducted into an ibutho lempi (fighting unit). In his early days, Shaka served as a warrior under ...
People of the Standing Stone Oneida, self-name Onᐱyoteʔa∙ká (“People of the Standing Stone”), Iroquoian-speaking North American Indian tribe living, at the time of European contact, in what is now central New York state, U.S. They are one of the original five nations of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy. Like the other Iroquois tribes, the Oneida were semisedentary and practiced corn (ma...
South Africa – Timeline=This timeline incorporates, amongst others, the timelines of general South African history from the website South African History Online . SA History Online and Hazel Crampton’s ‘The Sunburnt Queen’. (Johannesburg: Jacana. 2004) were especially helpful in recording events of the Nguni peoples.===The object of the project===... is to map the events that took place in Sout...
The famous American artist and poet Marsden Hartley described Dogtown as a cross between Stonehenge and Easter Island. There are 45 numbered "cellar holes" that mark the one time homes of this ghost town. Treasure hunters, nature lovers, writers, artists, historians, photographers, and even business persons are inspired by the landscape. Bring your Dogtown associated profiles on over.* from (al...
Queens of EthiopiaAfrican women of antiquity were legendary for their beauty and power. Especially great were the Queens of Ethiopia; Queen of Sheba (960 B.C.), Candace of Meroe and her defeat of Alexander the Great (332 B.C.), Amanirenas, Amanishakhete, Nawidemak, Amanitore (Acts 8:26-40), Shanakdakh, and Malegereabar.>* Queen of Sheba >* The Candaces of Meroe (332 BC- 12 AD)>* Candace Amanire...
Relations Uric Acid and Purine "The disease is caused by high uric acid levels of uric acid in the blood., And high levels of uric acid is caused due to the large consumption of foods containing purines" Uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism in the body. While purine protein of group nucleoprotein is not so needed by the body. High uric acid levels cause tofus, hard lump sort of pow...
This is primarily a South African genealogical timeline but for perspective I’ve included non South African events and people so that we can see what happened in other parts of the world at the same time. For the most part I have not included online sources as their facts are difficult to verify and websites come and go and are changed continuously. My hardcopy and online sources are listed at...
This project has been split into 3 sections. Firstly A list of known Pioneers on Geni not mentioned in the following two lists Secondly those mentioned in Pioneers of Rhodesia: Selected transcription of excerpts from article by Edward. C. TABLER in Africana Notes and News, September 1972, vol 20 No. 3 Thirdly Abridged excerpts from Africana Notes and News Vol 19, no. 5, March 1971 posted by J...
United States National Cemeteries Portal The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 147 nationally important cemeteries in the United States. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. By the end of 1862, 14 national cemeteries had been established. A national cemetery is generally a m...