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  1. William Bartlett Sustains Many Wounds
    date April, 1862 to 1864map CHARLOTTE, Virginiatags War

    Captain William Bartlett suffered from multiple wounds throughout the course of the war. Even so, he continued to serve for the duration and received numerous commendations for his bravery. An unusual man, Bartlett started out as a private in the Fourth Battalion of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia fighting a war that "went against his principles." Born in Massachusetts, he was a Confederate sympathizer...

  2. Brothers in Arms
    date June 15, 1862 to April 9, 1865map DARLINGTON, South Carolinatags War

    Onward the brigade marched, through the murderous fire pouring down from the ridge. These men were tried and tested through the forge of combat and had developed camaraderie and a sense of pride. These men were the soldiers of Gregg's Brigade.

    The History of a Brigade of South Carolinians, known first as "Gregg's" and subsequently as "McGowan's brigade", written...

  3. The Gruesome History of a Wartime Steamboat
    date 1863 to October 30, 1864map AVOYELLES, Louisianatags Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Migration/Transportation, War

    The Civil War diary of John L. Sharitt, Jr., a Confederate soldier, describes the repugnant state of war that he daily faced.Because of the hopelessness of the southern cause and his desire to return home before more destruction damaged Louisiana.On October 30, 1864, while aboard a boat at Norman's Landing, Louisiana, Sharitt reveals the history of the boat.The boat had been captured by the...

  4. Proud, Patriotic Song of an Arkansas Colored Regiment
    date 1863 to 1865map PULASKI, Arkansastags African-Americans, Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence, Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations, Slavery, War

    Written in 1863 by the white Captain Lindley Miller, the First Arkansas Colored Regiment of the Union army proudly sang the Song of the First Arkansas to become excited for training and battle.According to Miller's notes, the marching song was sung to the tune of John Brown's Body, which is significant because they honored Brown, the well-known man who attempted a widespread slave insurrection...

  5. Hostile Northern Occupation of Little Rock Yields Friendship
    date September 10, 1863 to 1865map PULASKI, Arkansastags Politics, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism, War, Women

    New to the Little Rock area, John Levering, a U.S. colonel from Indiana, needed a place for his family to live.Recently re-stationed to the city from New Orleans, he found the best hotel in town uncomfortable and unsuitable for a Union officer.In January 1865, Levering encountered a desirable solution.Levering casually visited a local, celebrated lady of society, a Mrs. S--, and informed her that...

  6. Joshua Frier's Salt Solution
    date 1864map DUVAL, Floridatags Agriculture, Economy, Politics, War

    On his seventeenth birthday, Joshua Frier enrolled in a branch of the Florida Confederate militia which was eventually called the First Florida Reserves, Company B. The unit remained in northern Florida throughout its service, where the Union naval blockade intentionally caused serious import shortages on goods like coffee, tea, and salt. Salt was a commodity that was vitally necessary to preserve...

  7. Overseer's Place on a Southern Plantation
    date 1864map HENRY, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Slavery

    In 1864 Thomas D. Bouldin was hired on a plantation in Henry County, Virginia. He signed a contract with Beverly Jones, a plantation owner and in this contract Thomas bound himself to the duties of a slave overseer. Thomas was given a list of assignments that he was to regularly do and another list of things he could do if he was finished with his own. The contract set that Thomas was set to receive...

  8. The End of the Civil War in Indian Territory
    date 1864 to 1865map Unorganized, Oklahomatags Native-Americans, Politics, War

    The war in the West went on long after Lee surrendered, and not just because it took a little while for news to travel. The Confederates appeared utterly defeated, and yet some still were willing to fight. But the South was not the only problem for the North. Corruption was rampant in Forts Smith and Gibson (Indian Territory, now Oklahoma); safe havens for both southern and northern refugees, from...

  9. A Negro Killed
    date January 28, 1864 to 1864map BROOKE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Arts/Leisure, Crime/Violence, Law, Race-Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The crime was reported in the newspaper with a bit of contempt, as if it was a mildly amusing diversion in the late days of the Civil War. According to the Wellsburg Herald, the black population of Wellsburg had been meeting nightly at societies or parties at the residences of other free blacks. But on this particular night something went wrong, or as the local white-owned newspaper mused, [the...

  10. Confederate Desertion
    date February, 1864map MOBILE, Alabamatags Economy, Government, War

    David Glasgow Farragut was captain of a Union ship in Mobile Bay. In his correspondence to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Farragut mentioned the increasing number of Confederate deserters he and his men picked up from gunboats. The Union used these men for intelligence, however inaccurate, and continued to take them on in hopes of gaining new information.

    Union naval...

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