Primary Sources Archive: Civil War

The articles published in this Primary Sources Archive are as follows:

1864 - Sherman enters Meridian, Mississippi (3279 Reads)
Anaconda Plan (2861 Reads)
Andersonville Prison (2882 Reads)
Battle of Britton's Lane (3754 Reads)
Birth of the Ironclads (1868 Reads)
Black Regiments (2277 Reads)
Brevet promotions (3165 Reads)
Brevet Union Generals of the Civil War (3993 Reads)
Civil War Cannons (2655 Reads)
Civil War Slavery (2024 Reads)
Common Words of the 1860's (26830 Reads)
Confederate Army (2197 Reads)
Confederate Civil War Generals (2424 Reads)
Conscription Act (1689 Reads)
Conspiracy Trial (2976 Reads)
Copperheads (1744 Reads)
Draft Riots (1742 Reads)
Emancipation Proclamation (2051 Reads)
Emancipation Proclamation (1908 Reads)
Enrollment Act (1683 Reads)
European Recruits (1875 Reads)
Ewing's Order No 11 (1750 Reads)
General Sherman sacks Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865 (5814 Reads)
Genesis Of The Confederate Navy (2134 Reads)
Irvin McDowell (1818-1885) (3931 Reads)
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry (1329 Reads)
Massacre at Fort Pillow (2186 Reads)
Medical Treatment (1947 Reads)
Organization of the Federal Navy (1519 Reads)
Prisoner Exchange (2765 Reads)
Quantrill Raiders (2135 Reads)
Reconstruction Act (3046 Reads)
Reconstruction Plan (1694 Reads)
Samuel Peter Heintzelman (1805-1880) (1599 Reads)
Shenandoah Valley (1655 Reads)
Thanks of Congress (1710 Reads)
The Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February, 1862 (3030 Reads)
The Civil War Sailor's Life (2048 Reads)
The Confederate Cruisers (2277 Reads)
The Union and Confederate Navies (2431 Reads)
U.S. House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment (3040 Reads)
Underground Railroad (1836 Reads)
Union Army (1720 Reads)
Union Civil War Generals (2260 Reads)
War Casualties (1867 Reads)

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1745: American New Englanders captured Louisburg, Cape Breton, from the French.

1775: British General William Howe lands his troops on the Charlestown peninsula overlooking Boston and leads them against Breed's Hill, a fortified American position just below Bunker Hill.

1863: On the way to Gettysburg, Union and Confederate forces skirmished at Point of Rocks, Maryland.

1863: At the Battle of Aldie the Confederates failed to drive back Union troops in Virginia.

1863: C.S.S. Atlanta, Commander Webb, with wooden steamers Isondiga and Resolute, engaged U.S.S. Weehawken, Captain J. Rodgers, and U.S.S. Nahant, Commander Downes, in Wassaw Sound.

1864: General John B. Hood replaced General Johnston as head of CSA troops around Atlanta.

1870: USS Mohican burns Mexican pirate ship Forward.

1876: Sioux and Cheyenne Indians score a tactical victory over General Crook's forces at the Battle of the Rosebud, foreshadowing the disaster of the Battle of Little Big Horn eight days later.

1898: The Navy Hospital Corps is established.

1913: U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico.

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Primary Sources Archive: Civil War

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