ONCE A CIVIL WAR

The U.S. Civil War: Was it one nation divided, remaking itself, or two nations at war? There is no one answer. But every day was a day of great change.

Sunday, August 18, 2013

August 19, 1863---Raids near Jacksonville, Florida

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AUGUST 19, 1863:       Near Jacksonville, Florida, The U.S.S. NORWICH and the U.S.S. HALE attacked two Confederate signal stations ...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

August 18, 1863---Emancipation Raids

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AUGUST 18, 1863:      General Thomas Ewing, Jr. U.S.A. orders raids on pro-Confederate Missouri military camps with the express int...
Friday, August 16, 2013

August 17, 1863---The Union Attack on Fort Sumter

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AUGUST 17, 1863:        After “softening up” Charleston Harbor and the City of Charleston for seventeen days, the Union begins to b...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

August 16, 1863---Near Lookout Mountain

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AUGUST 16, 1863:      The Union Army of The Cumberland begins a general advance designed to flank the Confederate Army of Tennessee...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

August 15, 1863---The Fair Sex

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AUGUST 15, 1863:         Lieutenant John Wilkinson, C.S.N., skipper of the blockade runner Lee , departs from Wilmington, North Ca...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

August 14, 1863---"Letters are the desideratum in this part of the world."

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AUGUST 14, 1863:        Cornelia Hancock, the 23-year-old Union nurse deemed “too young and too pretty” to be aiding the wounded at...
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