Here is a poem by newspaperman, George Morrow Mayo, written during World War I, referencing the Civil War, which became quite popular. He hoped the spirit of Ulysses L. Grant would be with soldiers from the North, and the spirit of Robert E. Lee with sons of the South. The poem received stirring tributes all [...]
The state of Indiana furnished over 210,000 men for the Union Army and Navy in the Civil War, and over 24,400 of these men died in the war. One of the more famous Indiana regiments was the 19th Indiana Infantry, one of the regiments of the Iron Brigade. The 19th Indiana Infantry fought at Second [...]
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Tennessee was the last state to secede from the Union, holding off until June 8th 1861, or nearly two months after the war’s first shots were fired at Fort Sumter. Eastern Tennessee had a large population of Union loyalists but it was not enough to outvote the secessionists once fighting broke out. And the state [...]
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The Union Army maintained a large number of fixed fortifications around Washington D.C. during the Civil War. These forts were defended with large caliber, fixed artillery. These guns were maintained and operated by regiments designated as Heavy Artillery, as opposed to those regiments in the field that transported their artillery from place to place, the [...]
