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his men and virtually all of his officers. A sullen and foreboding man, “Old Coley” demanded both rigorous drill and rigid dis- ...
pany F of the 2nd served as a rear guard, and Mudge, hobbled by a painful wound to the leg, was narrowly saved from cap- ture by ...
that time the Army of the Potomac had a new commander in the person of Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker. Determined to finally bring Lee ...
Command of Ruger’s 3rd Brigade, con- sisting of the 27th Indiana, 2nd Massa- chusetts, 3rd Wisconsin, 13th New Jersey, and 107th ...
Mudge withdrew the bulk of the regiment to McAllister’s Woods, Fox made a bold showing and called out to the Confeder- ates to s ...
line into the open expanse of the meadow would amount to little more than a death sentence for the troops. Colgrove concluded th ...
ties of his own, Nadenbusch’s heated oblique fire was tearing great gaps in the ranks of the Hoosiers in the meadow. He later re ...
By Jim Heenehan Bragg stopped him. “Sir, my information is different. I have given the order to attack the enemy in your front a ...
L ate in the morning of January 2, 1863, Confederate Maj. Gen. John Breckinridge gazed through the brush at newly arrived Union ...
joined his commanding officer by a giant sycamore tree near the Nashville Pike. The personal animosity between the two men was p ...
could enfilade the Union lines across the river as Polk’s infantry smashed them from the front. Bragg’s subordinates did not sha ...
the river bent toward Hanson’s men, caus- ing them to bunch as they squeezed right, the brushwood provided a measure of cover un ...
the Kentuckian done so, his men might have secured the hill using the Duke of Wellington’s famous “reverse slope” tac- tic, whic ...
before giving the signal to fire. Then he let the Rebels have it. Almost 60 Union can- non blistered the disorganized Rebel mob ...
Unless they stopped, the Yankees would sweep them from the field. Riding into the crisis, General Preston rallied some troops on ...
Admiral Farragut holds on to rigging as his flagship, the Hartford, duels with the Confederate ram Tennessee.Piercing Mobile Bay ...
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. Gift of the Citizens of Hartford by subscription. 57 O n the night of August 4, 1864, in the cabin ...
But by the summer of 1864 Southerners found nothing humorous about the block- ade—almost 500 warships patrolled the coastline an ...
easily commanded the shipping channel, half a mile wide and 21 feet deep. About three miles to the westward rose Dauphin Island, ...
tle, but they might work as floating batteries. Moreover, in the fall of 1862 other contracts had been closed, one of which was ...
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