General Marcellus Crocker’s Report on His Division in The Vicksburg Campaign
On May 2nd, 1863, Brigadier General Marcellus Crocker was assigned to temporary command of the 7th Division of Major General James B. McPherson’s 17th Corps, after the regular division commander,...
View ArticleGeneral Morgan L. Smith’s Division at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
By late June of 1864, Major General William T. Sherman’s campaign to capture Atlanta had been in progress for almost two months. Sherman and his opponent, General Joseph E. Johnston, had spent that...
View ArticleColonel John C. Starkweather’s Report on His Brigade at the Battle of Perryville
In the summer of 1862, Confederate forces invaded Kentucky to capture the state and bring it into the Confederacy. A border state with slavery, Kentucky’s residents had loyalties on both sides in the...
View ArticleBrigadier General John Caldwell’s Brigade in the Assault on Marye’s Heights...
The December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia was one of the bloodiest of the Civil War, in large part due to wave after wave of Union assaults against the fortified Confederate positions on...
View ArticleThe 8th United States Colored Troops (USCT) at the Battle of Olustee, Florida...
On December 8th, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconciliation, a preliminary step for reconstruction of the South after the Civil War. One of the provisions of...
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