Near Death Encounter at Camp Jackson
Less than a month after the bombardment of Fort Sumter inaugurated civil war, pro-secession militia in Missouri agitated to join the nascent Confederacy. When word leaked that the militia planned
Less than a month after the bombardment of Fort Sumter inaugurated civil war, pro-secession militia in Missouri agitated to join the nascent Confederacy. When word leaked that the militia planned
One day in early 1864 at Chattanooga, Rev. Calvin Holman of the U.S. Christian Commission busied himself about camp when the army’s commander, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, arrived on
During the morning of the second day’s fight at Chickamauga, coordinated Confederate attacks came perilously close to breaking the Union army’s right flank. Towards the climax of the advance, the
Sergeant William Augustus MacNulty, a native of Maine who served in Company A of the 10th New York Infantry, suffered a devastating wound at the Battle of Fredericksburg. A Massachusetts
On July 23, 1861, two days after the Battle of Bull Run, Lt. Col. Frank Wheaton wrote the official report of his 2nd Rhode Island Infantry. He lamented the loss
When 16-year-old Andrew Geddes volunteered in the Union army, he began a military career that most teenagers might never have imagined. In April 1861, the Canada native left his job
At Trevilian Station during the afternoon of June 12, 1864, Union reserves moved quickly to contain damage inflicted by Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton’s cavalry. One of the hastily formed skirmish
In almost every engraving, lithograph or painting of Rear Adm. David G. Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay, he is lashed with rope to the rigging of his flagship.
Following the end of the Civil War, U.S. army commanders awarded a multitude of brevets to deserving officers. These honorary ranks were a tool for senior officers to recognize subordinates
When Brig. Gen. Charles C. Dodge searched for a permanent assistant adjutant general in the spring of 1863, he turned to a familiar face with a proven record: Capt. Louis