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Fort Wagner
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…
Tags: Civil War, mixed media, Richard LeFevre, UT Faculty
Fort Sumpter
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…
On April 12-14, 1861, the first shots of what would become the Civil War were fired at…
Tags: Civil War, mixed media, Richard LeFevre, UT Faculty
Fort Donelson
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…
Tags: Civil War, mixed media, Richard LeFevre, UT Faculty
Cold Harbor
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…
Tags: Civil War, mixed media, Richard LeFevre, UT Faculty
Chickamauga
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…
Tags: Civil War, mixed media, Richard LeFevre, UT Faculty
Chattanooga
After retreating from Chickamauga, the Union Army of the Cumberland settled into Chattanooga while the Confederates ringed the hills around them so they could not get food. One army was in about as bad a shape as the other. In order to survive,…
Tags: Civil War, mixed media, Richard LeFevre, Tennessee, UT Faculty, War