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In March and April 1864, a combined U.S. Army and Navy expedition up the Red River of Louisiana had successfully advanced about 150 miles and was closing in on Shreveport. Confederate Major General Richard...
In the pre dawn hours of June 14th, 1863, Union artillery opened fire on the Confederate defensive works at Port Hudson, Louisiana in preparation for an infantry assault along the entire line. Port Hudson...
In March 1864, a joint army–navy expedition under the commands of Major General Nathaniel Banks and Admiral David Porter ascended the Red River in Louisiana with an immediate objective of capturing the city of...
In my last post, I took a look at the post war lives of some of the Confederate participants on the Civil War. Here’s a look at the post war lives of some of...
Gideon Welles served as Secretary of the Navy from 1861-1869, which at that time was a cabinet level office. Welles had a real insider’s look at the operations of the Lincoln Administration and the...
April 1864 in the Civil War Action was picking up as spring arrived, with skirmishes, cavalry actions, and minor fighting occurring more frequently throughout the south, although movements of the major armies would have...
The Union Army advance up the Red River in Louisiana during the spring 1864 Red River Campaign came to a halt at the Battle of Sabine Crossroads , also known as the Battle of...
March 1864 in the Civil War Until late February 1864, the highest authorized rank in the Union Army was that of Major General. As the war continued, there were a lot of Major Generals,...
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UNION
Abraham Lincoln
John Buford
Ambrose E. Burnside
Joshua L. Chamberlain
George A. Custer
David G. Farragut
James A. Garfield
Ulysses S. Grant
Winfield Scott Hancock
Rutherford B. Hayes
Nathaniel Lyon
George B. McClellan
James B. McPherson
George G. Meade
John F. Reynolds
John Sedgwick
Philip H. Sheridan
William T. Sherman
Edwin M. Stanton
George H. Thomas
CONFEDERACY
Jefferson Davis
Richard H. Anderson
Braxton Bragg
Patrick Cleburne
Nathan Bedford Forrest
A. P. Hill
John Bell Hood
Stonewall Jackson
Albert Sidney Johnston
Joseph E. Johnston
Robert E. Lee
James Longstreet
John S. Mosby
George E. Pickett
Leonidas Polk
Sterling Price
Edmund Kirby Smith
J.E.B. Stuart
Richard Taylor
