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Lexingtonand the smaller warship Rob Roycollided, and the transport Emerald ran aground on the sandy riverbank. At Blair’s Landi ...
wanted to extricate his flotilla from the confines of the Red River, and Banks knew that he could not proceed northward again wi ...
dled warships tried to get underway again, the Rebel guns opened up once more, pounding Julietand Fort Hindman. Cham- pion No. 5 ...
A fter an almost uninterrupted, four-month-long string of Union successes beginning in early 1862, followed by the advance of a ...
Major General George B. McClellan, third from left, assumes a Napoleonic pose with members of his staff in March 1862. Left to r ...
Landing on the Pamunkey River—and force McClellan to evacuate his works east of the city to defend his vital supply line. Althou ...
that persisted for almost three years. McClellan made no secret of his profound contempt for abolitionists, radical Repub- lican ...
uncovered, allowing the divisions of Maj. Gens. James Longstreet and Daniel Har- vey Hill (who would be waiting with Lee at the ...
out for 15 miles northwest on muddy roads broken by swollen streams. Physi- cally and mentally fatigued himself, the redoubtable ...
Valley army was now two miles beyond the railroad and pressing ahead (again Branch failed to forward the message to other comman ...
with Longstreet’s division following. A.P. Hill’s troops were securing Mechanicsville when Lee arrived and learned to his dis- m ...
was with great difficulty that we made our way through the entanglement of tree tops, saplings, vines, and every other con- ceiv ...
Of the suicidal advance, Confederate Colonel Porter Alexander wrote, “A more hopeless charge was never entered upon. When Ripley ...
Wheeler ’ s 1863 SEQUATCHIE VALLEY RAID A Union army trapped in southeastern Tennessee faced starvation with only one tenuous li ...
Federals shoot at Rebel cavalrymen attempting to overwhelm a supply train. The deeper Union armies penetrated into the Southern ...
Union military setback. Sent by Charles A. Dana an hour before the Army comman- der wired his first news of the battle, it was h ...
the need to attend to every small detail no matter how irrelevant, Bragg was also tense, arrogant, and a martinet. Never able to ...
gestions put forward, the most promising seemed to originate from Lt. Gen. James Longstreet. Longstreet’s command, an infantry c ...
The city of Chattanooga in 1863 was the county seat of Hamilton County, Tenn., with a population, according to the U.S. Census o ...
sionary Ridge. Perched on these emi- nences, and sheltered by earthworks, Southern musket and artillery fire swept the entire zo ...
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