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Tag Archives: Overland Campaign
Ulysses S. Grant dies
Today is the 126th anniversary of the death of US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. When most people think of the most popular, well known people of 19th Century United States they immediately think of Abraham Lincoln. While Lincoln was … Continue reading
Posted in General Officers, This Day In The Civil War
Tagged 21st Illinois Infantry, Abraham Lincoln, Appomattox Campaign, Appomattox Court House, Army of Northern Virginia, Battle of Belmont, Battle of Champion Hill, Battle of Chattanooga, Battle of Chattanooga III, Battle of Cold Harbor, Battle of Fort Donelson, Battle of Fort Sumter, Battle of North Anna, Battle of Petersburg, Battle of Shiloh, Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of the Wilderness, Black Friday, Civil War, Fort Donelson, Fort Sumter, General Grant National Memorial, George Washington, Julia Dent Grant, Mark Twain, Overland Campaign, Petersburg Campaign, Richard Yates, Robert E. Lee, Robert Lee, Secession Crisis, Siege of Petersburg, Siege of Vicksburg, Stephen Douglas, The Wilderness, Third Battle of Chattanooga, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S Grant, Vicksburg, Whiskey Ring
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Battle of Spotsylvania Court House winds down
One hundred forty-seven years ago the fighting at Spotsylvania Court House was winding down. Part of US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign, it was a horrific series of battles. After fighting CSA General Robert E. Lee’s Army of … Continue reading
Posted in Significant Battles, This Day In The Civil War
Tagged Abner M Perrin, Abner Perrin, Ambrose Burnside, Ambrose E Burnside, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Battle of the Wilderness, Civil War, Congressional Medal of Honor, Emory Upton, Gouverneur K Warren, Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Gouverneur Warren, Harris Farm, Horatio G Wright, Horatio Wright, James C Rice, James Longstreet, James Rice, John Sedgwick, Junius Daniel, Medal of Honor, Mule Shoe, Mule Shoe Salient, Overland Campaign, Richard Anderson, Richard Ewell, Richard H Anderson, Richard S Ewell, Robert E. Lee, Robert Lee, Robert O Tyler, Robert Ogden Tyler, Robert Tyler, Stephen D Ramseur, Stephen Ramseur, The Wilderness, Thomas Stevenson, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S Grant, Wilderness, Winfield Hancock, Winfield S Hancock, Winfield Scott Hancock
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George E. Pickett, CSA Major General (Soldier Profile Series)
George E. Pickett, CSA Major General Birth Date: January 16, 1825(i) Birth Place: Richmond, Virginia Date of Death: July 30, 1875 Location of Death: Norfolk, Virginia Education: U.S. Military Academy at West Point – Class of 1846 Military Experience: Mexican … Continue reading
Posted in General Officers, Soldier Profiles
Tagged A.P. Hill, Ambrose Powell Hill, Appomattox Campaign, Appomattox Court House, Army of Northern Virginia, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Cold Harbor, Battle of Fair Oaks, Battle of Five Forks, Battle of Fort Stedman, Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Gaines Mill, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Petersburg, Battle of Sailor's Creek, Battle of Sayler's Creek, Battle of Seven Pines, Battle of Williamsburg, Benjamin Butler, Benjamin F Butler, Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander, George B McClellan, George E Pickett, George Pickett, Isaac R Trimble, Isaac Trimble, J Johnston Pettigrew, James Kemper, James Longstreet, Jesse L Reno, Jesse Reno, Joe Hooker, John Bell Hood, John Buford, John Gibbon, Joseph Hooker, Lafayette McLaws, Lewis Armistead, Overland Campaign, P.G.T. Beauregard, Petersburg, PGT Beauregard, Phil Sheridan, Philip Sheridan, Pickett's Charge, Richard Garnett, Robert E. Lee, Robert Lee, Siege of Petersburg, Siege of Suffolk, Theophilus Holmes, Thomas Jackson, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S Grant
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Interview with Sal Cilella, author of “Upton’s Regulars”
As most of you are aware, I am very interested in the smaller units of the Civil War. The volunteer infantry regiments comprised the backbone of the opposing armies of the American Civil War. Most regiments were comprised of ten … Continue reading
Seymour H. Hall – Captain Co. F 121st New York Infantry
Seymour “Hiram” Hall was born in Barkersville, New York on September 26, 1835. Little is known of Hiram’s early life. With the outbreak of the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln’s call for 75,000 state militia volunteers on April 15, 1861, … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioned Officers, Congressional Medal of Honor
Tagged 121st New York Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Fredericksburg, battle of the crater, Battle of the Wilderness, Captain Hiram Hall, Captain Seymour H. Hall, Civil War, Civil War Battlefields, Emory Upton, George Meade, Hiram Hall, Medal of Honor, Overland Campaign, Petersburg, Salvatore Cilella, Seymour H. Hall, Ulysses Grant, Upton's Regulars
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Cold Harbor – A Very Hot Battle Nowhere Near A Harbor
After twenty-six days, of unrelenting battles, from May 6–7, at The Wilderness, May 8–21, at Spotsylvania Court House and May 23–26, at the North Anna River, US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant pushed his Army of the Potomac, further into the … Continue reading
The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House – A New Level of Fighting
While I sit here on a beautiful spring morning, my thoughts drift back 145 years. I can imagine myself in Northern Virginia, between Fredericksburg and Richmond. The birds are singing, much as they are today, but off in the distance, to … Continue reading
Battle of the Wilderness – Grant Takes it to Lee
145 years ago, this week, US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant would battle CS General Robert E. Lee in the Battle of the Wilderness.(i) After being brought east, in March 1864, to take command of all the Federal armies, Grant … Continue reading