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  1. Lieber Code Provides Definition and Punishment for Confederate Spies
    date April 24, 1863map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Francis Lieber, Government Laws, Civil War, Espionage, Abraham Lincoln

    Issued in April of 1863, General Orders 100, also referred to as the Lieber Code, provided the Union Army with clear instructions as to how to deal with captured Confederate soldiers,  as well as non-combatants during the Civil War. Created at the request of Abraham Lincoln, the Lieber Code provided soldiers with rules and expectations for their conduct. The Code devoted an entire section to spies....

  2. Brigadier-General Harry T. Hays Leads the Tigers at Gettysburg
    date July 1, 1863 to July 2, 1863map ADAMS, Pennsylvaniatags Civil War, Military

    Harry T. Hays was the Brigadier General of the feared Louisiana Tigers.  During the Civil War, the Tigers gained a reputation in the North as one of the fiercest Southern brigades.  The Tigers are best known for their tremendous efforts at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Hays said they, “advanced through the city of Gettysburg, clearing it of the enemy and taking prisoners at every turn.” The...

  3. General Braggs Carries Out Execution of Kentucky Youth
    date December 4, 1862 to December 26, 1862map RUTHERFORD, Tennesseetags Military, Civil War, Confederacy

    At eleven o’clock on the morning following Christmas Day, 1862, General Braxton Bragg of the Confederate Army forced his Company E, 6th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (part of the commonly denoted “Orphan Brigade”) to stand round their fellow soldier, Asa Lewis, who awaited execution. Exactly one hour later the firing squad of twelve men carried out the young soldier’s sentence. As Lewis’ body,...

  4. General Abner Doubleday at Gettysburg: Why is he not remembered?
    date July 1, 1863 to July 3, 1863map ADAMS, Pennsylvaniatags Civil War, Gettysburg, General Abner Doubleday

    At approximately 10:15 AM on the morning of July 1, 1863, Major General Abner Doubleday was thrown into command of the forces along McPherson's Ridge when his immediate superior, General John F. Reynolds, was shot and killed in the early engagement between Union and Confederate infantry. Doubleday became responsible for the entire battlefield and holding back the Confederate advances until the full...

  5. Chamberlain's Defense of Little Round Top
    date July 2, 1863 to July 3, 1863map ADAMS, Pennsylvaniatags War, Civil War, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Gettysburg

    On July 2, 1863, Colonel Strong Vincent looked to Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine regiment to defend Little Round Top “at every hazard”.  It was vital for the Union army to not lose this hilltop position to prevent the Confederates from breaking through their lines. At Gettysburg, the 20th Maine and other Union troops took both Little Round Top and Big Round Top. They have become immortalized...

  6. On the Way to Gettysburg: John B. Gordon’s “Chivalrous” War Tactics
    date June 28, 1863map YORK, Pennsylvaniatags John Brown Gordon, Wrightsville, Civil War

    “It was a case of adherence to the letter and neglect of the spirit; but there was no alternative except good-naturedly to admit that my men had gotten the better of me that time”—so wrote General John B. Gordon about the regrettable conduct of his soldiers as they marched through Pennsylvania on their way to Gettysburg. Gordon, being a Southern Gentleman and a reputable man, sought to bring...

  7. The Tragedy known as Pickett's Charge
    date July 3, 1863map ADAMS, Pennsylvaniatags Military, Civil War, Confederacy

    The veteran soldiers geared for the attack, confident in their strategy and ability, ready to accept nothing less than success.  As the enemy forces approached and the men “spearheaded the charge” with all that they had, it quickly became evident that it was not going to be enough.  The “Union artillery opened” on the Confederates’ “parade-ground ranks” and the group suffered greatly...

  8. General Ambrose P. Hill in the Battle of Gettysburg
    date July 1, 1863 to July 3, 1863map ADAMS, Pennsylvaniatags Pickett's Charge, Civil War, Gettysburg

    General Ambrose Powell Hill viewed Gettysburg as his chance for redemption from a reputation as a cantankerous, argumentative and tardy leader in the Confederate Army, but the ill fate that befell his troops in the battle was not the ending he desired. It was day one of the Battle of Gettysburg and Ambrose Powell Hill was about to face his first battle as the promoted commander of the Third Corps,...

  9. George Meade: Hero at Gettysburg?
    date July 1, 1863 to July 13, 1863map ADAMS, Pennsylvaniatags War: American Civil War, Civil War

    George Meade was the commander of the Union Army of the Potomac during one of the most well-known battles of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg from July 1-3, 1863, and he is one of the war's least well-known generals. As Meade learned of the escalating battle at Gettysburg, PA on July 1, he began ordering his army toward the town. At the end of the first day, the Confederate force failed to...

  10. The Irish March on Fredericksburg
    date December 11, 1862 to December 15, 1862map SPOTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags Irish Immigration, Civil War

    On the eve of battle, war cries echoed throughout the valleys surrounding Fredericksburg Virginia in Spotsylvania County. Among the nearly 200,000 men preparing to engage in battle, just under two thousand were Irish Americans. These men, new to the land, had been conscripted into service almost as soon as setting dry-foot upon US soil. Despite the Irish immingrants' recent arrival, they were more...

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