DK - The American Civil War

During the siege of Petersburg, Colonel Henry Pleasants and his coal-mining troops (the 48th Pennsylvania) laid a mine beneath t ...

When Mallory, a Florida senator, became secretary of the Confederate navy, he had to start from scratch. He assembled a small ar ...

NAVAL DEVELOPMENTS hoped to use a semi-submersible torpedo boat, CSS David, to break the Union stranglehold on the harbor. On th ...

Confederate Raiders It was not enough for Southern blockade-runners to elude the U.S. Navy squadrons patrolling inshore waters a ...

ships were hunting the Alabama. Huge crowds came to see the famous ship when she anchored in Cape Town in August 1863. But the d ...

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Captained by Raphael Semmes, the CSS Alabama proved to be the Confederacy’s most formidable commerce raider. After capturing 64 ...

The Battle of Mobile Bay Union Admiral David Farragut’s advance into Mobile Bay resulted in the destruction of a Confederate nav ...

THE BATTLE OF MOBILE BAY The Union victory at Mobile Bay was one of a series of Southern defeats in the summer of 1864 that help ...

Mississippi Operations Union control of the Mississippi River had split the South in half. But large Confederate forces under ge ...

chances for re-election. Since St. Louis was too well garrisoned to chance an assault, they veered west along the Missouri River ...

Forrest & Maples This advertisement for Forrest’s prewar firm appeared in the Memphis City Directory, 1855–56. The lucrative ...

However, her uncle and guardian, a Presbyterian minister, knew the young man by reputation, and when Forrest asked his consent, ...

Sherman’s Advance to Atlanta In the summer of 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman maneuvered his army to the outskirts of Atlanta, ou ...

SHERMAN’S ADVANCE TO ATLANTA While the fall of Atlanta led to despair in the South, it sparked elation in the North. But Sherman ...

DESTRUCTION OUTSIDE ATLANTA Despite assuming the offensive on four separate occasions, John Bell Hood could not stall William T. ...

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in a vast sheet of flame and smoke. Sherman, having declared it a Union fortress and deported its citizens, was burning the city ...

SHERMAN’S MARCH TO THE SEA Sherman’s March to the Sea had inflicted a devastating blow on Southern morale while making Sherman a ...

William Tecumseh Sherman Bell Hood, who had protested against Sherman’s treatment of Atlanta’s civilians. “You might as well app ...