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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...
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...
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...
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...
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
This sub-project deals with the artistry of the U.S. Civil War--a project about Civil War related arts, photography and the poetry of Stephen Vincent Benet and Walt Whitman; let's not forget the novelists and especially Matthew Brady's pictures of the War!==Photography===== Mathew Brady Civil War Officer Photographs === Mathew B. Brady Collection of Civil War Photographs Mathew B. Brady coordin...