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1855 Springfield Rifle
... common shoulder weapon used in The Civil War. Known as a "rifle musket" the ...

Albert Sidney Johnston
... Johnston At the start of The Civil War only Winfield Scott was more respected ... 1832 that would introduce Johnston to war. For weeks he campaign

Alexander Stephens
... and the Kansas-Nebraska Act before the war, returning to the House of Representatives ... Before the issue could be settled, war broke out with Me

Appomattox (or Appomattox Court House)
... but by the time of the Civil War the town on the Lynchburg Road ... miles from the courthouse, known on Civil War era maps as Appomattox Station.

Army of Northern Virginia
... Virginia until the end of The Civil War. Today, the Army is normally referred ...

Army of the Potomac
... of all armies engaged in The Civil War. At the Battle of Bull Run|First ...

Atlanta Campaign
... CS (Best generals of the Civil War) from Hardee's Corps and ordered him ... since he was concerned about a prisoner-of-war camp 100 miles in his r

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
... a more important roll in The Civil War than the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. ... Raid on Harpers Ferry to the post-war celebrations, the Baltimore

Battle of Allatoona Pass
... was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

Battle of Beaver Dam Creek
... and President Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War George Randolph and other civilians waited ...

Battle of Belmont
... for me to retain it." The war had not been going as well ... including surgeon Jacob Brinton, reported that shot|Civil War Artillery projectiles p

Battle of Big Bethel
... Bethel Other names: Great Bethel Many Civil War buffs are surprised to find out ... May, 1861, before the first land battle|Civil War Firsts betwe

Battle of Chickamauga
... effectives. Charles Dana, Assistant Secretary of War, then issued Wilder a direct order, ...

Battle of Corrick's Ford
... played a big role in The Civil War. In command of the Northern armies ... general officer on either side to die|Civil War Firsts in the line of du

Battle of Drewrys Bluff
... who owned the land during the Civil War, Drewry's Bluff gave the Confederates an ...

Battle of Gaines Mill
... the strongest federal position of the Civil War. The Union left (near the Watt ...

Battle of Glendale
... battles both in the Mexican American War and the Civil War, Kearny called the Rebel onslaught by ...

Battle of New Orleans
Battle of New Orleans (Civil War) Taking of the largest city and ... been the key to winning the Civil War. New Orleans had been an important ... one

Battle of Shiloh
... filling up with Union prisoners of war. After a short break, Breckinridge's men ... (bloodiest two days). According to the book:0785817026:Civil W

Battles for Chattanooga
... lyrical name of any in the Civil War, "The Battle Above the Clouds." As ...

Braxton Bragg
... the Worst generals in the Civil War by the editors of the Blue ... old at the outbreak of the Civil War, Braxton Bragg was a dour, laconic civil e

Causes of the Civil War
Causes of the Civil War Causes of the Civil War - A Northern Perspective Causes of the Civil War - A Southern Perspective

Civil War Artillery projectiles
Civil War Artillery projectiles There were three general ... artillery projectiles in use during the Civil War, shot, shell, and shrapnel. Shot, the .

Civil War Firsts
Civil War Firsts Most Civil War "firsts" list contain debatable facts. For ... What can be said is the Civil War saw the first breach-loading, lever a

Civil War National Cemeteries
Civil War National Cemeteries A National Cemetery

Clement Vallandigham
... year, the United States entered the War with Mexico|Mexican American War, a war he defended in session on December 15, calling it a Constitutional

Committee on the Conduct of the War
... class="big">Committee on the Conduct of the War During The Civil War this Joint Select Committee, whose only ... from Washington D. C. The early w

Constitution of the State of Vermont
... vengeance, a most cruel and unjust war against them; employing therein, not only ... justly deprived or abridged of any civil right, as a citizen,

contraband
... was "An escaped slave during the Civil War who fled to or was taken ... "contraband slave" precedes the start of Civil War by almost 100 years. Th

copperhead
... with the Southern cause during The Civil War. In recent years, the term has ... two were not synonymous during the Civil War. Generally, copperhea

Cracker Line
... the most confused battles of The Civil War.

Darius Couch
... Division and corps commander during The Civil War, Darius Couch holds the distinction of ... and was not assigned by the War Department and Abraha

David Farragut
... remain with the Union during The Civil War. He commanded the Brooklyn during the ... port in the South during the Civil War with a relatively smal

David Porter
... plan the final days of The Civil War

Don Carlos Buell
... of the feature:Worst Generals of the Civil War by the editors of The Blue ... a conservative Democrat who viewed the Civil War as a struggle to re

Edward O. C. Ord
... 3d Artillery, fighting the Second Seminole War under William Harney. By the start of the Mexican War, Ord made captain. He served two ... Fort Mon

Edwin Stanton
As the second Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln, Edwin Stanton normally ... United States Armed Services during the Civil War. He and Lincoln tri

Edwin Vose Sumner
... Cerro Gordo in the Mexican American War (Craig Symonds, book:0393311309:Joseph E. Johnston) Bull ... southern Canada. A report to the War Departme

Election of 1840
... surprising epiphany as far as The Civil War is concerned. It featured the first ...

Election of 1844
... abolitionists, many other Causes of the Civil War arose from this election. Perennial Whig ...

Election of 1852
... side in both the Mexican-American and Civil Wars, actually tried to take the ... usual in the years before the Civil War. Scott lacked support in

Election of 1864
Election of 1864 The Civil War was the overriding issue of the ... the Democrats were again divided - War Democrats and Peace Democrats. Even Lincoln

Election of 1876
... in place since 1865. After the Civil War, the Republican congress used this to ... governor Rutherford B. Hayes, a Union war veteran who had been

Election of 1880
... important role in defeating during The War Between the States|The Civil War. Two major issues arose during the ...

Emancipation Proclamation
... when stating the reasons for the war. Aware that the Second Confiscation Act ... idea of foreign intervention in the war if the Proclamation was r

Felix Zollicoffer
An early, high-ranking casualty of the Civil War, Felix Zollicoffer was a publisher, editor, ... the start of the Second Seminole War in 1836. He supp

First Manassas - First Bull Run
... an oft repeated scenario during the war, McDowell and Beauregard had been classmates ...

First Vicksburg Campaign
... S. Grant prepared to take The Civil War deep into the Confederacy. His two-fold ... of three major objectives of the war. On mdy:October 16, 1862

Fitz-John Porter
... rode west on the Utah Expedition|Utah War. He returned to Washington D. C. ... held by either side during the Civil War, Porter withstood repeated

Flags of the Civil War
Flags of the Civil War During the Civil War both the Northern and Southern armies ...

Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
... had declared its neutrality in the war. In September 1861 Leonidas Polk CS ... general on either side during the Civil War, decided to withdraw ba

Fort Pulaski
... the "third-system" forts constructed after the War of 1812, the destruction of Fort ... was completed just before the Mexican-American War. It was

Fort Sumter
... to Secretary John Floyd of the War Department. The officer’s concern was not ... a "disunion man" by Secretary of War Floyd. If this is true (th

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 [Full Text]
... to take depositions of witnesses in civil causes, which is now possessed by ... forfeit and pay, by way of civil damages to the party injured by .

General-in-Chief, U. S. Army
... commander of all armies during the Civil War. The position was responsible for overseeing ... General-in-Chief at the start of the war. Limited ph

Generals Who Died In the Civil War
Generals Who Died In the Civil War

George Armstrong Custer
... image:custerga.jpgWith the first battles of the Civil War already fought, young George Armstrong Custer ... and the biggest controversy of his Civ

George McClellan
... and spoke of the "Science of War." When he graduated from West Point ... To the young graduate, talk of war with Mexico was exciting. President Ja

George Meade
... prior to the outbreak of The Civil War. Returning to his wife in Philadelphia, ... the Union army in the entire Civil War. McCall's division, incl

George Thomas
... and fought in the Second Seminole War, where General Winfield Scott commanded in-field ... Lieutenant in 1841. During the Mexican-American War he

Georgia Declaration of Causes
... past in the condition of virtual civil war. Our people, still attached to the ... their fabrics in the time of war, and the necessity of high duti

Gettysburg Address [Full Text]
... we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any ... on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a ...

Gideon Pillow
... general on either side during the Civil War, Gid Pillow was a political appointee of James Polk during the Mexican-American War. Polk, then Presid

Harpers Ferry
... one of the Causes of the Civil War Following the secession of Virginia, Harpers ...

Important Battles of the Civil War
Important Battles of the Civil War These battles represent significant events in the American Civil War. The important event(s) of the battle ... Firs

In God We Trust
... a renewal of sorts during The Civil War. A Pennsylvania minister came up with ... the 1864 two-penny piece. After the war the use of the phrase on

Irvin McDowell
Irvin McDowell image:Irvin_McDowell.jpgCivil War commander who rose to the rank ...

J. E. B. Stuart
... Jeb Stuart was 28 when The Civil War began. Although only medium height, Stuart's ... his keen power of observation. During War Stuart became know

James Archer
... served with honor throughout the Mexican-American War. He reached the brevet rank of ... on September 13, 1847. Following the war, Archer decided

James Buchanan
... also quickly overshadowed by the ongoing war in Kansas. Free-soilers (now Republicans) easily ... before he resigned as Secretary of War. Buchanan

James Garfield
... by the Radical Republicans following the war, but when Thaddeus Stevens left the ... neither side had major disagreements. The war records of each

John Bell Hood
... Hood's first military assignment of the Civil War came to him from an old ...

John Crittenden
... it. Following the start of the Civil War Crittenden made many impassioned speeches calling ... generals on opposite sides in the Civil War; a gran

John Floyd
... grandfather, a hero of the Revolutionary War and the Indian Wars. During the period of the Civil War he was known as John Floyd ... the most unusu

John Hunt Morgan
... a popular Southern hero during the War for Southern Independence|The Civil War. After serving in the Mexican American War, he returned to Kentucky

John Magruder
... of the first actions of the Civil War. He had been assigned to protect ...

John Reynolds
John Reynolds ==Before the Civil War== image:reynolds.jpgBorn on September 21, 1820, John ... Academy in 1841. During the Mexican-American War he serv

Joseph Hooker
... family had been devastated by the War of 1812. Mom struggled to send ... then underway in Florida (Second Seminole War). His unit was responsible

Jubal Anderson Early
... image:early.jpgJubal Early was forty-four when the Civil War broke out, decidedly single and unhappy, ... Academy he entered the Second Seminole W

Kansas-Nebraska Act [Full Text]
... and Associate Justices, and all other civil officers in said Territory, before they ... and Associate Justices, and all other civil officers in sa

Kentucky Ordinance of Secession
... ports, invaded our soil, and waged war upon our people for the purpose ... State the horrors and ravages of war, instead of attempting to preserve

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Speech [Full Text]
... were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to ... altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents

Meridian Campaign
... the most misunderstood campaigns of the Civil War, the Meridian Campaign took William Tecumseh ...

Northwest Ordinance (Ordinance of 1787) [Full Text]
... of the original States, criminal and civil, as may be necessary and best ... shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers in each count

Operations in Western Virginia
In the first campaign of the Civil War Union forces attempted to maintain control ... in the first battle of the Civil War. McClellan arrived after re

P. G. T. Beauregard
... was a popular commander during the Civil War who fired on Fort Sumter (Charleston ... Louisiana coast. During the Mexican American War, he served

Panic of 1819
... 1819, inflation, public debt from the War of 1812 and the Louisiana Purchase. ... sectionalism that lead to the American Civil War. Prices through

Panic of 1857
... downturn. For 3 years the Crimean War had involved European and Asian countries ... until the opening shots of the Civil War.

Philippi
... Races First land engagement of the Civil War between Confederate and United States troops ... of history - the first land engagement|Civil War Fir

Radical Republicans
... order to empower themselves during The Civil War, Radical Republicans in the Senate created ... Committee on the Conduct of the War. House Radical

Raid on Rome, Georgia
... of the enduring tales of the Civil War from Georgia is the story of ...

Richmond, Virginia
... Virginia At the start of the Civil War, Richmond, Virginia was the largest industrial ...

Robert E. Lee
... John C. Calhoun. Then Secretary of War, Calhoun approved Lee's application to West ... himself in the middle of a war of words between Democrats a

Romney Campaign
... camp at Philippi to begin the war in the East, made a diversionary ... result, Judah Benjamin (then Secretary of War) ordered Jackson to withdraw

Salmon P. Chase
... recommended not doing anything to provoke war, but Chase went a step further, ... uncomfortable with Simon Cameron, Secretary of War. Lincoln aske

Siege of Charleston
... of Charleston Longest siege of The Civil War Fort Sumter, the outpost in Charleston Harbor where the Civil War started stood as a symbol of ...

Simon Bolivar Buckner
... the Kentucky militia, early in the war Simon Bolivar Buckner met with George ... months Buckner spent in a Yankee prisoner-of-war camp in Boston H

Stonewall Jackson
... of the feature:Best Generals of the Civil War|bestgenerals.html At the outbreak of war, Major Jackson was ordered to Harper's ...

Stuart's Ride Around McClellan
... his first report to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton: A rebel force ... style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">Stuart's Ride Around McClellan - Amer

Surrender At Appomattox
... been with him most of the war. As he went to bed Lee ... of Grant's before (and after) the war, tried to convince Lee otherwise, but ... during th

Telegraph
... would not be until after The Civil War that a transatlantic cable worked again. ... Continent image:telegraph_infrastructure.jpgAt the start of th

The Civil War
... is the accepted start of the Civil War. Prior to that time, politicians were ... Mississippi. Determining the end of the Civil War is significantl

The Emancipation of Slaves
... fact, by the start of the Civil War, slaves still existed in every state ...

The Great Locomotive Chase
... Golden For more than a year war raged in the fields of state:Virginia ... had been an engineer before the war. Union General Ormsby Mitchel approv

The Kansas-Nebraska Act
... the act created a small regional war (see Bleeding Kansas) that some ... boiled over start of the American Civil War.

Ulysses S. Grant
... "...the supreme Union hero of the Civil War, but Grant's success on the battlefield ... professional, both before and after the war." The call for

USS New Ironsides
... built at the start of the Civil War. Work began on the U. S. ...

Why is it the Union Army
... part of the army during The Civil War was the United States Army. Only ... Army. At the outbreak of the Civil War, most of the United States Army

William Farrar Smith
... new boundary established by the Mexican-American War. He also established the stage road ... lighthouses at the outbreak of The Civil War, "If any

Wilmot Proviso
This oft-cited "Cause of the Civil War" is probably the poorest explained. It ... territories acquired during the Mexican American War, was added to a

Winfield Scott
... general at the start of The Civil War, Winfield Scott served his country for ... hasty a few months later since war with Great Britain was brewing