Even still, officers were extremely hesitant to order their men to fire at long distances. Even with rifles, the average range of Civil War firefights was about 100-120 yards. Your average...
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Even still, officers were extremely hesitant to order their men to fire at long distances. Even with rifles, the average range of Civil War firefights was about 100-120 yards. Your average...
The question's been asked and answered, but I'll throw out that honor and the concept of manhood was absolutely still a factor during the Civil War, more so among the officers. But still there...
There are numerous such walls throughout the battlefield. Advancing with Robert Ransom's brigade, the 24th NC became engaged in helping push back John Sedgwick's division and then the 24th advanced...
I've been extremely fortunate to have moved to Virginia, gotten a history degree, and working for the National Park Service. That journey has brought me to almost the entirety of the eastern theater...
Not in 1862 there wasn't, but there was in 1864.
And even if there wasn't fighting historically, to have a map means there's going to be fighting in the town. To which the answer how to fight in...
You have those rights because the Federal government gave you those rights when the Bill of Rights were ratified. We take for granted the Bill of Rights as American citizens, they are certainly not...
Daniel Butterfield wrote "Taps". He had a habit of writing bugle calls and was playing with an existing tune when he called his bugler in one night to try out some new notes.
It's not the word "debris."
It's "Int. Febris." Febris is Latin for fever, Int short for intestinal. Meaning he had "intestinal fever", i.e, malaria.
Better watch your fire around your generals. :p
Because American forces overwhelmingly used linear line tactics same as the British in the 1770s-80s. Guerilla warfare in the Revolution has been overplayed into one of the biggest myths of the...
Except it's clear, very clear, who were the good guys and who were the bad guys of Reconstruction.
:p
The key to remember here was that the Civil War was fought, in overwhelming numbers, by volunteer forces with little to no military training at the beginning of the war. Sure the generals...
The video is right. Hardee's drill manual says: "Raise the piece with both hands, and support the butt against the right shoulder; the left elbow down, the right as high as the shoulder; incline the...
No, I wasn't commenting on the corps, I was talking about the corps badge. The red trefoil on the soldier's forage cap is the badge for the 1st Division, Second Corps. Corps badges weren't created...
Speaking of historical accuracy, the guy on the left has a 2nd Corps First Division badge, which wouldn't come into play until spring, 1863.
I'm not a big believer in actual ghosts, but I do heartily agree with this quote from Joshua Chamberlain:
"In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and...
Yes it was. Americans voted for Obama, and voted for representatives and senators who supported the plan. As a representative democracy, that's how this all works. Your doomsday proclamations are...
But also remember that 75% of Union soldiers during the war were born in the United States and were not immigrants. Immigrants played a large part in the war, but they didn't win the war.
Regulars wore all dark-blue uniforms with Hardee hats early in the war, as part of their dress uniform. By the second half of the war, even Regulars were wearing sack coats, light blue pants, and...
Fredericksburg has that development because it followed a preservation plan called, of all things, the Antietam Plan. The early establishment of military parks and national parks under the auspices...
The founder of Gettysburg was James Gettys, whose name was pronounced Gett-us. That's why people say Gett-us-burg.
I wouldn't say one Confederate regiment so much as the entire weight of Hood's division crashing down on Warren's 2 regiments.
Living in Fredericksburg, I may be able to find a couple. ;)
The tactic wasn't unheard of during the Civil War. It was used some during the Battle of Chickamauga.
With Sharpsburg so close to the nucleus of the fighting, even including Burnside's men getting to the outskirts of the town, there were civilians present during the battle, at least 1 was even...