The Death of Major General John Sedgwick May 9th, 1864
John Sedgwick was born in Cornwell Hollow, Connecticut in 1813 and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1837. He served in the Mexican War and was a major in the 1st ...
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The Surrender of the Confederate Armies: April-June 1865
On April 9th, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. This event at Appomattox Court House, Virginia is often regarded as the end of...
Children of Civil War Veterans are Still Alive 147 Years After the War Ended
It may seem like the Civil War was a long time ago, but there are still a few people around who have a close tie to those who fought in the conflict. These people are...
Union Forces Take Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee and Roanoke Island, North Carolina; Confederates Win at Valverde, New Mexico: February 1862
February 1862 in the Civil War After several months of relatively little action, the pace of the fighting picked up in February 1862. Although the Army of the Potomac stayed in winter quarters around Washington,...
Former U.S. President John Tyler Became Loyal to the Confederacy
An interesting article on Yahoo! News relates that two grandsons of John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States, are still alive. The presidential grandchildren were born in the 1920s. Lyon Gardiner Tyler,...
The Capture of Fort Henry, Tennessee February 1862
In the fall of 1861, Captain Jesse Taylor accepted command of the artillery at Fort Henry, a Confederate garrison on the Tennessee River near the Kentucky–Tennessee border. The Tennessee flows from eastern Tennessee southwest into...
Magnificent Hetty Cary: Betsy Ross of the South
One of the more prominent socialites and colorful characters in Richmond society during the Civil War was displaced Marylander Hetty Cary. A descendant of Thomas Jefferson, Cary was born near Baltimore in 1836, and was...
Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky; Edwin M. Stanton Named Secretary of War: January 1862
150 Years Ago in the Civil War As the second year of the Civil War began, the main armies on both sides remained inactive for the most part. In Washington, President Abraham Lincoln continued to...