DK - The American Civil War
attack on New Orleans had been a land assault supported by the navy, Farragut largely ignored the army’s role, preferring to do ...
Action on the Mississippi River The struggle for control of the Mississippi in 1862 brought strange warships into conflict, from ...
James Buchanan Eads An inventive civil engineer and businessman, Eads helped to think up the idea of a Union flotilla of ironcla ...
EYEWITNESS July 15, 1862 Exchange of fire The daring Arkansas is seen carving her way between Union shipping on the Mississippi, ...
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CLASH OF ARMIES 1862 T he decision to attack Fort Henry was made at the end of January Built the previous year, the fort was po ...
GRANT TAKES FORTS HENRY AND DONELSON decide whether to attempt a defense of Fort Donelson and with what strength. When Fort Henr ...
Born in Kentucky, Johnston fought against Mexico as a general in the Texan Army and the U.S. Army. He was commander of the Pacif ...
Infantry clash Confederate troops encounter fire from a close-packed Union infantry line during the Battle of Shiloh. In the abs ...
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On the first day of the Battle of Shiloh the Confederates launched a surprise attack that forced the Union army back toward the ...
Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley The Confederates’ Shenandoah Valley Campaign was a diversionary operation that kept large bodie ...
JACKSON IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY Occurring against a backdrop of Confederate defeats elsewhere, Jackson’s victories in the Shena ...
Posthumous portrait This 1864 painting of Jackson was based on the last photograph of him taken before his death in 1863. It cap ...
Through the following winter in the Shenandoah Valley, Jackson’s career as a Civil War general looked uncertain. He seemed indif ...
CLASH OF ARMIES 1862 ■ PERCUSSION CAPS ■ ENFIELD RIFLE MUSKET ■ MISSISSIPPI RIFLE Rifles and Muskets Infantry arms were in tr ...
RIFLES AND MUSKETS ■(4 SPIKE BAYONET AND SCABBARD ■(3 SWORD BAYONET ■(2 RIFLE COVER ■^ RICHMOND RIFLE MUSKET ■ FAYETTEVILLE RIFL ...
The Peninsula Campaign In the hands of an aggressive Union commander, a seaborne landing on the Virginia Peninsula might have be ...
THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN After the wounding of General Johnston at Seven Pines on May 31, General Lee was given command of forces ...
The Seven Days Battles Between June 25 and July 1, 1862, Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia in a seven-day offensiv ...
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