The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places ... changed hands 72 times during the war, and the state of Missouri sent 39 regiments to fight in the siege of Vicksburg: 17 to the Confederacy and ...

On the morning of September 29, 1864, as dawn broke over eastern Virginia, some 700 1 black soldiers in the 4th and 6th regiments of ... more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle ...

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina ...

That’s pretty ironic considering Lawton’s Hill was used as a training ground and campsite for troops headed for the Civil War. In fact, two Union Army units — the 48th and 96th regiments ...

The following are the deaths reported up to the 12th inst., in the Ninetieth and Ninety-first Regiments of New-York Volunteers, now stationed at and near Key West, Florida; Ninetieth Regiment ...

No Union victory in the Civil War came easier than the capture of New ... With Louisiana’s militias and volunteer regiments off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of retaining the ...

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