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.

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

August 6, 1864---The Battle of Utoy Creek

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AUGUST 6, 1864:  The Battle of Utoy Creek: The Army of The Ohio attempts to cut the rail line leading out of Atlanta along Utoy C...
Monday, August 4, 2014

August 5, 1864---"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

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AUGUST 5, 1864:   The Battle of Mobile Bay:  With Fort Gaines under assault from the landward side, Rear Admiral David Glasgow Farr...

August 4, 1864---The gold-plated Governor

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AUGUST 4, 1864: Once again, the Union command structure aided the Confederacy by lengthening the war and raising its cost in blood.  ...

August 3, 1864---"Force it"

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AUGUST 3, 1864:  Although President Lincoln has great faith in Ulysses S. Grant as his General, the terrible fiasco of the Crater and J...
Friday, August 1, 2014

August 2, 1864---The Two Generals T.W. Brevard

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AUGUST 2, 1864: Colonel Theodore Washington Brevard (d. 1882) was a Southern politician before and after the war, and a Confederate soldie...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

August 1, 1864---Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley

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AUGUST 1, 1864:        General Philip Sheridan U.S.A. is given command of the Union Army of The Shenandoah Valley with orders to de...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

July 31, 1864---"I propose to do nothing about them."

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JULY 31, 1864:                     Under the direction of Confederate Chief Surgeon Isaiah H. White, the inmate hospital at Anderso...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

July 30, 1864---The Burning of Chambersburg, PA; The Battle of The Crater

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JULY 30, 1864:           The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania:   General Jubal Early C.S.A. and his troops reached Chamber...
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