Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s Report on the 20th Maine at Gettysburg
One of the more well known episodes of the Battle of Gettysburg is the story of the 20th Maine Infantry on Little Round Top on Day 2 of the battle (July2nd, 1863). The 20th...
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Brigadier General Michael K. Lawler’s Brigade at the Battle of Big Black River Bridge
Following the Union victory at the Battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi on May 16th, 1863, Confederate forces retreated west towards Vicksburg, reaching the Big Black River that night. Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, commander...
The Iron Brigade in the Chancellorsville Campaign
On January 25th, 1863, Major General Joseph Hooker was promoted to command of the Army of the Potomac. Six weeks earlier, the army had suffered a bloody defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia;...
General Montgomery Meigs Observes the Battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge
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...
General Hugh Ewing’s Brigade in the Vicksburg Assaults of May 19th and May 22nd, 1863
On May 18th, 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee began arriving at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Grant’s Army had crossed the Mississippi River at Bruinsburg and Grand Gulf, Mississippi at the end...
The Skirmish at Wise’s Crossroads, or Dover Crossroads, North Carolina, April 28, 1863
Although the larger battles in the Civil War are well known, there were also countless lesser actions as well, including many in locations away from where the majority of the large battles were fought....
General John Buford’s Division at the Battle of Upperville June 1863
Brigadier General John Buford will always be remembered for his successful delaying action on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. But he and his cavalry division of Major General Alfred Pleasonton’s cavalry...
Lieutenant Colonel Porter Olson’s Report on the 36th Illinois Infantry at the Battle of Missionary Ridge
After his army was defeated at the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863, Major General William Rosecrans retreated to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Confederate General Braxton Bragg then laid siege to Chattanooga, occupying the high ground...