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Gen. E.O.C. Ord, commander of XVIII Corps, issued no written orders, and his verbal orders went out only after nightfall. Such t ...
mond Howitzers. Gregg was at Fort Har- rison, leaving command on the ground to Colonel Frederick S. Bass. Brig. Gen. Alfred Terr ...
around, they could see a dark line of blue- coated troops still filing across the bridge. Closer at hand, they came under a sput ...
were the neighboring smaller works of Forts Johnson, Gregg, and Gilmer. One mile to the southeast was another, larger work calle ...
immediately ordered the gunboats Nanse- mondand Drewryto Chaffin’s Bluff and sent an officer ashore for further details. The off ...
reached the city that Fort Harrison had fallen and the Yankees were moving toward town. Businesses and government offices closed ...
pieces. By a tragic misunderstanding of orders, only four companies of the 7th USCT were hurled at the fort. One-third of the 18 ...
was likelier, thought Hoke, “to demoral- ize my men by your shells falling short and bursting among my men” than to hurt the ene ...
banner to tiny shreds so it would not be captured with him. One of Hoke’s men, echoing his commander’s earlier com- plaint, bitt ...
30 Bridgeman Images I n November 1861, word swept through London that an American warship, James Adger,in port at Southampton, w ...
Initiating a major diplomatic flap, Union Navy Lieutenant D.M. Fairfax leads a two-boat boarding party from USS San Jacinto, rig ...
for England. Arriving in Cuba on Octo- ber 15, they found that British mail ships did dock at Havana but that they would have to ...
the toast of Boston and celebrated throughout the country as a hero of the republic. The New York Timesstoked the patriotic ferv ...
British ambassador to the United States, were read at the meeting. Lyons warned that American Secretary of State Seward might pr ...
toria, had been kept up to date with the cabinet’s deliberations, and he was con- vinced that their reaction would be overly agg ...
ernment orders. Adams was kept in the dark. Meanwhile, the mood inside the American legation in London was so tense, said one ob ...
Confederate commissioners. Sumner was not at the cabinet meeting later that day; he was in the Senate where a late resolution wa ...
Murderous Order AT CULP’S HILL Murderous Order AT CULP’S HILL Hard-pressed Union troops in the Army of the Potomac’s XII Corps f ...
Experienced regimental commanders in the woods near Culp’s Hill took one look at their new orders and shook their heads. It was ...
quickly exhibited a distinct talent for annoying his neighbors. The same year he was admitted to the bar, he busied himself figh ...
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