The Battle of Corydon, Indiana
Though the border state of Kentucky saw much fighting during the Civil War, the state of Indiana, its neighbor to the north across the Ohio River, was largely spared from military action on its...
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Brigadier General James S. Wadsworth’s Report on His Division at the Battle of Gettysburg
New York native James S. Wadsworth was named commander of the 1st Division of the Union 1st Corps on December 27th, 1862. Though he did not possess a military background (he had been a...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...