Category Archives: American Civil War

On the last day of the battle of Gettysburg Before the famous charge, an artillery barrage was to soften up the Union troops on Cemetery Ridge. While the rebel forces lay in the woods on the opposite end of the long sloping field, the artillery started. At almost exactly 1 p.m. two shots were firedContinue reading “Civil War Artillery”

A lot of people that know a little about the civil war ,know about the famous battle of Little Round Top and how Colonel Joshua Chamberlin led the 20th Main in a defensive and decisive battle to defend the mountain that commanded the battlefield of Gettysburg. Most don’t know much about what happened to ChamberlainContinue reading “Joshua Chamberlain’s Wounding At Petersburg”

One of the bloodiest battles of the civil war

Civil war general shot in the worst place

I been saying this stuff for reals but he does a better job than me. Check out Raz0r’s great video on the subject.

A pivotal battle of the Civil War.

Born in Lancaster, Ohio February 8, 1820, William Tecumseh was the son of Charles Robert and Mary Sherman. Charles Robert was a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, and whose untimely death in 1829 left his widow with eleven children and no inheritance. Nine year old William was adopted into the familyContinue reading “General William T. Sherman”

A Bio of the CSA’s Best Artillery officer.

The famous US sharpshooter of the civil war

Vicksburg  had a population of 5,000. It set on a 200 foot bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi river  below , the river  jagged into a steep hairpin curve.   Between there and Memphis, TN the bluffs ran far inland and the land around the rive, if it could be called land, was swampyContinue reading “The Assault on Vicksburg Part 1”