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Participating in the Peninsula Campaign the 18th saw little action and spent much of its time digging trenches, marching all over the countryside, and suffering the drudgery of camp life.
It was during this battle that the regiment took its heaviest casualties of the war.
Held in reserve at Antietam, the regiment went on to serve at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Mine Run Campaign, and The Wilderness.
www.virtualnorfolk.org /public_documents/norfolkma_historical/Famous   (3355 words)

  
 Time Line of The Civil War - 1863
After the Battle of Gettysburg, General Meade engaged in some cautious and inconclusive operations, but the heavy activity of the photographers was confined to the intervals between them -- at Bealeton, southwest of Warrenton, in August, and at Culpeper, before the Mine Run Campaign.
After Rosecrans's debacle at Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863, Confederate General Braxton Bragg's army occupied the mountains that ring the vital railroad center of Chattanooga.
The photographs, probably all taken the following year when Chattanooga was the base for Sherman's Atlanta campaign, include scenes on Lookout Mountain, stormed by Hooker on November 24.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/cwphtml/tl1863.html   (854 words)

  
 88th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers
While there had been a delay at that crossing it had been brief and did not contribute substantially to subsequent events, the courier's report did not reach Grant's headquarters until much later, and it created the impression that V Corps was still delayed in its march to support Sheridan.
Early in the afternoon the column marched to Gravelly Run Church and massed, preparatory to a united advance upon Pickett at Five Forks, Warren to smash his left and the cavalry to break his front.
After the Appomattox campaign Martin Kuhn Reese was stationed in Washington D.C. He participated in the GRAND REVIEW of the victorious troops which took place in Washington D.C. Martin was mustered out in June 1865.
www.horseshoe.cc /pennadutch/history/american/88th.htm   (8082 words)

  
 Army of Northern Virginia - tScholars.com
This three-corps arrangement lasted for the rest of the war, although commanders changed frequently in 1864 and 1865.
The Army fought in a number of campaigns and battles, including:
Siege of Petersburg, including the Battle of the Crater
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Army_of_Northern_Virginia   (661 words)

  
 Civil War: Josh E. Billings' donations to Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
The Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862: A Bibliography
Report on the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac: To Which Is Added an Account of the Campaign in Western Virginia, With Plans of Battle-Fields
Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865
spec.lib.vt.edu /civwar/Billings1.html   (3662 words)

  
 What the Original 3rd Alabama Wore
From August of 1862 on, they probably wore some manner of Alabama state jacket (my personal vote goes to the Sixth Alabama jacket from Sharpsburg) and a mix of I and II types of Richmond Depot jackets.
These variations probably persisted through the Mine Run Campaign with the unit resupplied in the winter of 63-64.
Mid 64 probably saw the unit in a mix of kersey and single pocket Alabama jackets.
www.3rdalabama.org /whattheywore.htm   (3789 words)

  
 magazines
New York Infantry, "From Bull Run to Chancellorsville, The Story of the Sixteenth New York Infantry together with Some Personal Reminiscences," by Major General Newton Martin Curtis.
This reprint of Smith's book "Camps and Campaigns of the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry" is an exact replication of his well-written work, complete with regimental roster and index.
If, for example, you are reading about the Antietam Campaign, all of the battle reports will be found in one book, and relating correspondence in another.
mosocco.com /magazines.html   (13691 words)

  
 CIVIL WAR BOOKS (AUTHORS F-G)
Follows his unit from Bull Run, Second Manassas and the Peninsula Campaign where he is ultimately wounded and loses a leg - details of battle and camp life - $175
The first year of this journal covers details of his service in Louisiana and the Red River Campaign where he was held captive for 10 weeks in the Confederate prison at Mansfield and served as surgeon to the prisoners detained there.
The introduction states, "it was at Fort Pickens where [Slemmer] was destined to leave his greatest Civil War legacy by steadfastly refusing to surrender [the fort] to the Alabama and Florida authorities during those early days of secession." - $30
www.civilwarmall.com /bookseller/files/civwar3.htm   (10181 words)

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