The 1st Minnesota Infantry at Gettysburg
The 1st Minnesota Infantry was organized at Fort Snelling in April of 1861 and mustered in on the 29th of the month. The regiment went into action at the first Battle of Bull Run...
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Pro Union Governments Begin to Be Established in Union Held Areas; Federal Department Command Changes: January 1864
January 1864 in the Civil War The major armies on both sides remained in Winter Quarters in January of 1864. It was a time to rest and recover after many major campaigns in 1863. The...
December 2013 Alonzo Cushing Medal of Honor Update
There’s been some progress in the ongoing campaign to award the Congressional Medal of Honor to Lt. Alonzo Cushing, the Delafield, Wisconsin native who was killed in action while directing his artillery battery during...
Colonel Norman J. Hall’s Report for the Battle of Fredericksburg
Major General Ambrose Burnside’s plan for the capture of Fredericksburg, Virginia in November 1862 depended on the timely arrival of pontoon bridge building materials so that his army could cross the Rappahannock River into...
The Death and Burial of Private Charles R. Delano of the 1st Maine Cavalry
When a soldier was killed in action in the Civil War funeral and burial arrangements ranged from the body shipped home and buried in a hometown cemetery, to burial in common graves or cemeteries...
Fall Campaigns End, Armies go into Winter Quarters; Bombardment of Charleston Continues: December 1863
December1863 in the Civil War After a very eventful year of campaigning, the Confederate and Union armies wound down for the winter in the final month of 1863. The Army of the Potomac ended...
The Ohio State University Marching Band Pays Tribute to the Gettysburg Address
At halftime of the Ohio State-Indiana football game in Columbus on November 23rd, 2013, the Ohio State Marching Band put on a terrific tribute to the Gettysburg Address in honor of the 150th anniversary...
Visiting The National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland
When the Civil War began in 1861, medical science knew nothing about pathogens, antibiotics, or the causes of many diseases; surgeons at field hospitals reused surgical tools without sterilization, and many of the medications...