Civil War in the News August 2011 An 1862 document endorsing the appointment of a chaplain to a Hagerstown, Maryland military hospital following the Battle of Antietam that had been stolen from the government has been returned to the National Archives. Also returned was a letter addressed to Lincoln requesting the appointment of the chaplain. [...]
Although there were a few large scale battles in Missouri in the Civil War, most of the fighting in that state and in eastern Kansas consisted of smaller actions conducted by guerrilla and other irregular forces. Both sides employed these tactics, and the result was a brutal and vicious war of a type that was seldom [...]
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By September 1862, the 7th Maine Infantry had been in the Army of the Potomac for a year. The regiment had seen action earlier in the year in the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia and had fought well. The 7th Maine, along with four New York regiments, made up the Third Brigade of Major General William [...]
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The anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1st-3rd, is an appropriate time to remember the heroics of the men who fought and died there. One of these men who fell was Lt. Alonzo Cushing who was in command of Battery A, of the 4th U.S. Artillery. Cushing died while directing the firing of [...]
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