Category: War

June 10, 2018

Colonel Ezra A. Carman’s Report on the 13th New Jersey Infantry In the Atlanta Campaign

The 13th New Jersey Infantry entered Federal service on August 25th, 1862, and as a unit in the Union 12th Corps, saw action less than a month later at the Battle of Antietam. The...

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May 21, 2018

Admiral David Porter’s Gunboats Supported the May 22nd, 1863 Union Army Assault At Vicksburg

From the beginning of the Civil War, the Navy played a vital role in the campaigns in the Western Theatre of operations. The large rivers in the region, such as the Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland,...

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April 3, 2018

General George W. Getty’s Report on the Assault on the Petersburg Defenses April 2nd, 1865

After the Union victory at the Battle of Five Forks on April 1st, 1865, Federal forces were in place to cut the South Side Railroad, the last railroad supply line into the besieged city...

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March 22, 2018

Lieutenant Colonel Augustus G. Bennett and Captain Samuel Cuskaden’s Reports on the Surrender and Occupation of Charleston, South Carolina February 1865.

Throughout the Civil War, the city of Charleston, South Carolina had both a strategic and symbolic value to the Union. The first shots of the war occurred at Fort Sumter in the city’s harbor,...

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March 12, 2018

Major General James G. Blunt and Lt. Col. John Bowles’ Reports on the Battle of Honey Springs, or Elk Creek

White, Black, and Native American Union Soldiers Fought Confederate Native Americans and Texans for Control of Fort Gibson in Indian Territory For the first two years of the Civil War, Confederate forces generally controlled...

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February 26, 2018

Union Artillery Played a Deadly and Decisive Role in the Battle of Malvern Hill

During the Peninsula Campaign in the Spring of 1862, Major General George B. McClellan’s Union Army of the Potomac advanced to the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia before being stopped at the May 31st-June 1st...

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February 2, 2018

Lieutenant Colonel James B. McPherson’s Report on the Battle of Fort Donelson

Before he was a corps commander in the Union Army, James B. McPherson served as chief engineer and aide de camp on the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant during that general’s 1862 campaigns,...

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January 25, 2018

The Battle of Kirksville, Missouri

Following the March 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph C. Porter was sent to northern Missouri by General Sterling Price to recruit soldiers for the Confederacy. Porter lived in northeast Missouri...

Category: War

Colonel Ezra A. Carman’s Report on the 13th New Jersey Infantry In the Atlanta Campaign

Admiral David Porter’s Gunboats Supported the May 22nd, 1863 Union Army Assault At Vicksburg

General George W. Getty’s Report on the Assault on the Petersburg Defenses April 2nd, 1865

Lieutenant Colonel Augustus G. Bennett and Captain Samuel Cuskaden’s Reports on the Surrender and Occupation of Charleston, South Carolina February 1865.

Major General James G. Blunt and Lt. Col. John Bowles’ Reports on the Battle of Honey Springs, or Elk Creek

Union Artillery Played a Deadly and Decisive Role in the Battle of Malvern Hill

Lieutenant Colonel James B. McPherson’s Report on the Battle of Fort Donelson

The Battle of Kirksville, Missouri

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