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The Battle of Carthage, also known as the Engagement near Carthage, took place at the beginning of the American Civil War on July 5, 1861, near Carthage, Missouri. The experienced Colonel Franz Sigel commanded 1,100 Federal soldiers intent on keeping Missouri within the Union. The Missouri State Guard was commanded by Governor Claiborne F. Jackson himself and numbered over 4,000 soldiers led by...
The best source of manuscript material on the 7th South Carolina exists at the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina. Other manuscript material exists in university libraries, county archives, and in the battlefield parks (especially Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park). The wartime newspapers contain letters written by the soldiers, rosters, casualty l...
Please click the photo for a detailed explanation of the historical context. If anyone has any other pictures of the SC 5th Reg Cav 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. 5th Cavalry Regiment was organized in January, 1863, by consolidating the 14th and 17th Battalions South Carolina ...
A repository for image artifacts associated with the American Civil War.=====To add an image to the project:===(upper right) > photos and documents > photos > add image button ===To tag a profile to an image from the project:=== view images > select image > "in this photo" box [edit] > type in the profile name (hint: visit the profile first to add to your "short list")===To add an image to a pr...
___________________________________________________The 7th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent most of the war as a member of the famous Iron Brigade in the Army of the Potomac.The 7th Wisconsin was raised at Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service September 2, 1861. It saw severe figh...
This project is a holding place for the projects created for the various years of the US Civil War. 1861 , 1862 , 1863 , 1864 , 1865 ==Battles== Battles in 1861 , Battles in 1862 , Battles in 1863 , Battles in 1864 , Battles in 1865
The VI Corps (Sixth Army Corps) was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War.Visit Command and Unit Assignments for a detail of individual state units assigned to each division.==Formation==The corps was organized as the Sixth Provisional Corps on May 18, 1862, by uniting Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin's Division, which had just arrived on the Virginia Peninsula, with Maj. Gen. Wi...
This project will commemorate the Battle of Waynesboro in the American Civil War. ===Background===On March 2, 1865, Philip Sheridan ‘s Union troops under the command of George A. Custer defeated Jubal Early ‘s Confederate force at Waynesboro, Virginia, ending the last Confederate threat in the Shenandoah Valley.Both armies had been wintering in the Shenandoah Valley after a series of Union vict...
The Battle of Sandersville was a minor battle of the American Civil War November 25-26, 1864. It consisted of two skirmishes.On the eve of the Civil War, Sandersville was a dusty village nestled in east-central Georgia. With a population of about five hundred people, the hamlet was a typical small Georgian settlement with roots in the colonial period.When Sherman arrived in the village on Novem...
Foreign enlistment in the American Civil War ==Union enlistment==Although its largest foreign contingents were made up of Irish and German-Americans, over 60,000 Canadian and British volunteers served in the Union Army. Regiments such as the 79th New York Infantry Highlanders, originally formed in the 1850s, consisted completely of Scottish immigrants before accepting Irish, English and others ...
The Battle of Byram's Ford was a minor engagement of the American Civil War, comprising two separate skirmishes on October 22–23, 1864, in Jackson County, Missouri. It formed a part of the larger Battle of Westport , which ultimately resulted in a Union victory and the end of all major Confederate operations in Missouri. This battle is also sometimes referred to as the Battle of the Big Blue Ri...
June of 1864, the Confederate Army imprisoned five generals and forty-five Union Army officers as human shields against federal artillery in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, in an attempt to stop Union artillery from firing upon the city. In retaliation, United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton ordered fifty captured Confederate officers, of similar ranks, to be taken to Morris Is...
Background=== USS Tyler , a 575-ton "timberclad" gunboat, was converted from the commercial side-wheel steamship A.O. Tyler, which had been built in 1857 at Cincinnati, Ohio. Acquired in June 1861 for the Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla, she was commissioned in September with officers provided by the Navy. One of the first Federal warships on the Western Rivers, Tyler saw extensive action on th...
Union States: California , Colorado Territory, Connecticut , Dakota Territory, Delaware , Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , Kansas , Maine , Massachusetts , Michigan , Minnesota , Nebraska Territory, Nevada , New Hampshire , New Jersey , New Mexico Territory, New York , Ohio , Oregon , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , Utah Territory, Vermont , Washington Territory, West Virginia , Wisconsin
by Adam S. Eterovich== the American Civil War, many Croatians served as individuals and in organized Croatian companies. They fought for the South.Their service was not unusual or accidental, as they were a part of the South in numbers since the 1760's. They were in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. A Dalmatian, Juan Matulich, was selling guns and whiskey to the Indians in the 1760's; anothe...
Company G= Point Of Contact For This Page: Donald Colvin
UNION VERMONT TROOPS===11th Vermont Infantry==The 11th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry or simply known as 11th VVI was a three-years infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in eastern theater, from September 1862 to August 1865. It served in the XXII Corps in the defenses of Washington D.C., and with the Vermont Brigade in VI Corps.The regiment was must...
Company E =The purpose of this project is to document all the profiles of the men who served in this unit.
The Army of Virginia was organized as a major unit of the Union Army and operated briefly and unsuccessfully in 1862 in the American Civil War. It should not be confused with its principal opponent, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee.==History==The Army of Virginia was constituted on June 26, 1862, by General Orders Number 103, from four existing departments o...
Lincoln is a 2012 biographical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. It opened for limited release on November 9, 2012 and wide release on November 16, 2012.The film, screenplay by Tony Kushner, is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of Lincoln, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln , a...
I Corps (First Corps) was the designation of three different corps-sized units in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The units served in the following armies:* Army of the Ohio/Army of the Cumberland, Alexander M. McCook, September 29, 1862 – November 5, 1862* Army of the Mississippi, George W. Morgan, January 4, 1863 – January 12, 1863* Army of the Potomac and Army of Virginia (see ...
This project is a holding place for the projects created for the various states who sent troops to the US Civil War.The master Civil War project. Confederate States: Alabama , Florida , Georgia , Indian Territory , Louisiana , Mississippi , North Carolina , South Carolina , Tennessee , Texas , Virginia
CONFEDERATE MISSOURI TROOPS ===8th Regiment, Missouri Infantry==The 8th Missouri Infantry (CSA) was also know as Mitchell's Missouri Battalion. Mitchell formed a battalion in 1862, at Thomasville, MO. it was first designated the "5th" then the "7th" and finally the "8th". There was another 8th commanded by a Colonel Burns. See the book "Serving with Honor, the diary of Eathan Allan Pinnell, of ...
in this project we honor these men and their families ==John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859. Twenty-one individuals joined him; of different backgrounds and occupations, rich, poor, black, white, some born free and others born into bondage; men wi...