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Chancellorsville May 1, 1863
Robert E. Lee’s Masterpiece May 1, 1863 Robert E. Lee At the Battle of Chancellorsville Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia is outnumbered by Union Major General Joseph “Fighting Joe” Hooker’s Army of the...
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Chancellorsville May 2, 1863
Lee And Jackson Make Battle Plans May 2, 1863 Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson meet at Chancellorsville. The night of May 1, Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson are...
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Chancellorsville May 3 – 6, 1863
Any Victory Would Be Dear At Such A Cost May 3-6, 1863 Stonewall Jackson shot at Chancellorsville. Stonewall Jackson, shot by friendly fire from North Carolina troops the night of May 2, has his...
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Stonewall Jackson’s Death – Lee’s General Orders, No. 61
May 11, 1863 The Army of Northern Virginia Learns of Stonewall Jackson’s Death General Robert E. Lee informs his Army of Northern Virginia of General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson’s death with...
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Civil War Speech
Civil War Words, Slang, And Phrases The soldiers of the Civil War had their own way of saying things. The words, slang, and phrases of Billy Yank (a Union soldier), Johnny Reb (a Confederate soldier),...
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Seeing the Elephant
Seeing the Elephant – How it Feels to be Under Fire During the Civil War, soldiers would speak about “Seeing the elephant.” The “elephant” was battle, combat, being under enemy fire. Confederate...
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Civil War Casualties
How Many Died in the Civil War? Dead at Spotsylvania, 1864. A casualty is someone injured, killed, captured, or missing in a military engagement. The Civil War had plenty of all these. The casualty...
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Civil War Veterans
“The Civil War is in the present, as well as in the past.” Freedom is not free. Thank you to all our veterans. Gettysburg 75th Anniversary of Civil War Veterans Albert Woolson – Last Confirmed US Civil...
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Acoustic Shadow In The Civil War
Civil War Mortar Acoustic Shadow (sometimes called Silent Battle) is a strange thing. It is a circumstance where sound is unheard close to the cause of the sound, but the same sound is heard a far...
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The Death Of Stonewall Jackson
General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson Crosses Over the River May 10th, 1863 Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson At Chancellorsville during the night of May 2, Stonewall Jackson is struck three...
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Quotes By And About Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson At West Point
The Mystique Of Stonewall Jackson Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson is a fascinating character of the Civil War. His battlefield successes, Robert E. Lee calling him his right-hand man, his nickname...
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Quotes By Robert E. Lee Before, During, And After The Civil War
Robert E. Lee at Fredericksburg Robert Edward Lee was born on January 19, 1807, at Stratford, Virginia. He was the son of Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, a Revolutionary War hero. He graduated second in...
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Battle of Gettysburg 155th Anniversary Twitter Moment
An informative collection of Tweets about the Battle of Gettysburg fought July 1-3, 1863. John Buford View my @CivilWarHistory Twitter Moment. This Twitter Moment features a collection of my Tweets...
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