Civil War Info and Resources
After Major General Ulysses S. Grant arrived in Chattanooga, Tennessee in late October 1863 and assumed command of the Union forces in that besieged city, he wasted no time in opening a new supply...
After Major General Sterling Price’s ambitious raid through Missouri was stopped with the Union victory at the Battle of Westport Near Kansas City on October 23rd, 1864, the Confederate commander turned his forces south...
One of the most famous poets of the 19th century, Walt Whitman was an established poet, writer, and journalist at the beginning of the Civil War. Whitman took a great deal of interest in...
In June 1861, construction began on a large earthen fort on the south bank of the Ogeechee River south of Savannah, Georgia, as part of the defenses of that port city. Originally, this earthwork...
On September 4th, 1862, General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia began crossing the Potomac River into Maryland. Since taking command of the Confederate Army in early June, Lee had successfully driven the...
On August 10th, 1861, Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon’s four brigade Union Army of the West attacked Confederate forces under the command of Brigadier General Ben McCulloch and Missouri State Guard troops of Major General...
In 1854, the U.S. Army established a post named Fort Craig near the west bank of the Rio Grande in New Mexico Territory, about 35 miles south of the town of Socorro along El...
In mid July 1864, Major General William T. Sherman’s Union Army was closing in on Atlanta. Dissatisfied with General Joseph E. Johnston’s tactics emphasizing maneuver, Confederate President Jefferson Davis replaced Johnston with the ever...
Abraham Lincoln lived six years in the village of New Salem, Illinois, prior to moving to Springfield and rising to national prominence. In 1829, two men, James Rutledge and John M. Camron, built a...
