The 19th Indiana Infantry at the Battle of South Mountain
On the afternoon of September 14th, 1862, the 4th Brigade of the 1st Division of the 1st Corps, of the Army the Potomac was ordered to advance west up the National Road and attack...
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The 12th New Hampshire Infantry at the Battle of Chancellorsville
The 12th New Hampshire Infantry was formed in the summer of 1862 and entered Federal service in September of that year. The regiment was under the command Colonel Joseph Potter, a West Point graduate...
Capt. James F. Fitts of the 114th New York Infantry Describes the June 14th, 1863 Assault on Port Hudson
In the spring and early summer of 1863, the Union Army began its final, and ultimately successful, campaigns to secure control of the entire Mississippi River. Only two Confederate strongholds remained on the river,...
The Wounding and Death of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
On the evening of May 1st, 1863, Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson met to discuss strategy at the intersection of the Plank Road and Furnace Road west of Fredericksburg, Virginia....
Visiting Monocacy National Battlefield at Frederick, Maryland
In of June 1864 the Union Army of the Potomac had pushed the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia back to the Richmond and Petersburg area after the extremely costly Overland Campaign. As the Federals...
Emancipation Proclamation; Battle of Stones River Concludes; Battle of Arkansas Post; Burnside Replaced: January 1863
January 1863 in the Civil War The Emancipation Proclamation, released in preliminary form a few days after the Battle of Antietam, was issued in its final form by President Abraham Lincoln on New Year’s...
Gen. Alexander McCook’s Ammunition Train is Saved at The Battle of Stones River
Captain Gates P. Thruston of the 1st Ohio Infantry served as the ordnance officer for Major General Alexander McCook’s Right Wing of the Union Army of the Cumberland at the Battle of Stones River....
John Charles Currier of the 11th New Hampshire Infantry Recalls the Battle of Fredericksburg
The 11th New Hampshire Infantry entered Federal service in September 1862 and was assigned to the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Division in the Union Army’s 9th Corps. The regiment first saw action at...