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In the Western Theater of the war, Union Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans had outflanked and outmaneuvered General Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Army of Tennessee and taken the city of Chattanooga without firing a single shot. As the forces each moved south…

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With the most significant fighting on June 3, the Battle of Cold Harbor, was fought southeast of Richmond from May 31 to June 12, 1864, during General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign. This engagement contained the bloodiest 15 minutes of the…

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The first major success for the Union during the Civil War was in the Western Theater of Tennessee when Fort Henry fell on February 6, 1862. After securing the fort, Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant marched his troops to Fort Donelson. It had been a balmy…

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LeFevre has used the misspelling “Fort Sumpter” which was found in many 19th Century references including an April 1851 article published by the New York Times.

On April 12-14, 1861, the first shots of what would become the Civil War were fired at…

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On July 18, 1863, the Second Battle of Fort Wagner was engaged at Morris Island, south of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. At that time, a serious question persisted in the minds of the people of the North whether black troops would indeed fight…

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After the fall of Atlanta, General John Bell Hood, who had been defending the city, decided to take his 30,000-strong Army of Tennessee and make a concentrated effort to recapture Tennessee, thus disrupting General William Tecumseh Sherman’s supply…
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