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cedar_creek.tif
The city of Winchester, Virginia, changed hands 72 times during the Civil War, as well as nine times in one day. On October 19, 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman (the central figure in this painting) had just returned from official meetings in…

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Fought from April 30 through May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, the Battle of Chancellorsville is considered General Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory. The battle gets it name from the small village two miles from the battlefield, as well…

chattanooga.tif
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,…

chickamauga.tif
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…

cold_harbor.tif
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…

fort_donelson.tif
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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