DK - The American Civil War

the Northern economy grew in all areas as a result of the war—agriculture, mining, transportation networks, the service sector, ...

C onscription, also known as the draft, was a key factor in making the Civil War a people’s war, but this did not make it any th ...

In a letter of January 1863, Major Charles Fessenden Morse of the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry wrote of the apathy in the North in ...

Civil War battlefields were not the only places where violence and death occurred in the 1860s. From July 13–16, 1863, rioters s ...

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injured troops. Not everyone was qualified for their duties; many had been medical students before the war or learned on the job ...

of the Potomac, recognized the need for speedy evacuation of the wounded, and to that end created a Federal Ambulance Corps comp ...

Medical Equipment The Civil War was fought as medicine was on the brink of the modern scientific era. Anesthetic compounds were ...

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT ■ BONE SAW ■ TOOL TRAY ■(6 POCKET SURGERY KIT ■■(3 AMPUTATION KNIVES ■^ GRIPS ■ BONE CRIMPER ■■■(5 SURGICAL ...

It was not a moment too soon. Delayed by the mud and slow-moving wagons at the rear of the Federal columns, Barton and her small ...

night fell, she gave the surgeons her lanterns as well. Steadfastly she worked alongside them, bringing water to the wounded, pr ...

determined to turn this one around. Bragg withdrew to northern Georgia, where he received two divisions from Joseph E. Johnston’ ...

Rosecrans grew cautious, consolidating his army along the West Chickamauga Creek. Bragg was determined to flank him and to get b ...

THE ROCK OF CHICKAMAUGA After the Union army’s defeat at Chickamauga, General George Thomas and his men covered the retreat of t ...

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The summit of Lookout Mountain Capturing Lookout Mountain from the Confederates was no mean feat for General Hooker’s troops. Mu ...

Hooker, now reinstated to command the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps, would attack Bragg’s southern flank, anchored on Lookout Mount ...

THE UNION TIGHTENS ITS GRIP 1863 George H. Thomas UNION MAJOR GENERAL Born 1816 Died 1870 “One of the great names of our history ...

GEORGE H. THOMAS ■ July 31, 1816 Born, one of nine children, on a small plantation in Southampton County, Virginia. ■ 1836 Enter ...

Union victory clearly “rode the rails.” Not only were Northern commanders able to use the railroads to transport heavy artillery ...