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Hey guys!
I’m sorry I haven’t posted/reblogged much over here over the past few months or however long it’s been ~ I don’t know if I’ll be using this blog much anymore, to be honest, but I’ll keep it up for you all! Thanks for being so lovely and interested in history hehe xD
Devil’s Den, Gettysburg Battlefield
May 10th, 1863
Lt. Gen. Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson dies from complications after an amputation - a result of his own troops accidentally firing upon him one week previously at the Battle of Chancellorsville, hours after his famous flank attack.
It's Chancellorsville Week!
April 27-30th - Hooker’s flanking movement march begins and ends up in and around Chancellorsville
May 1st - Stonewall Jackson marches from Fredericksburg and collides with the Union forces
May 2nd - Jackson’s flank attack pushes back the Union army a considerable distance. That night, he is accidentally wounded by his own men.
May 3rd - JEB Stuart takes over from Jackson and pushes the Union back past the Chancellor House. Hooker is wounded when a pillar explodes beside him and is incapable of decision making for a while. Meanwhile, Sedgwick captures Marye’s Heights at Fredericksburg and a battle takes place around Salem Church.
May 4th - Early recaptures Marye’s Heights. Sedgwick withdraws back across the river and Hooker decides to follow. At a council of war, the majority vote is to continue to fight but he pulls back anyway.
May 10th - Stonewall Jackson, after amputation of his arm from when he was fired upon, dies at Guinea Station
May 1st - May 4th, 1863
The Battle of Chancellorsville rages in Virginia between General Joseph Hooker’s Army of the Potomac and General Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Major incidents in the battle were: General ‘Stonewall’ Jackson’s famous flank march on May 2nd, the Second Battle of Fredericksburg on May 3rd and the Battle of Salem Church on May 3rd and 4th. The battles resulted in Confederate victory and Union retreat on May 4th, 5th and 6th.
April 14th, 1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC, during a performance of Our American Cousin.
April 12th, 1861
Confederates open fire on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, beginning the American Civil War.
A crowd assembled in Court House Square, Ann Arbor, to hear the announcement that war had commenced after Fort Sumter had been fired upon by Confederate forces, April 15, 1861.
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April 12th 1861: Firing on Fort Sumter On this day in 1861, the American Civil War began when the first shots were fired upon Fort Sumter. Several Southern states had already seceded from the United States when this conflict occurred. The Southern slaveholding states had long been at odds with the anti-slavery agenda of the North, but secession was immediately preciptated by the election of anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as President in 1860. Fort Sumter was a Union base in South Carolina, which was the first state to secede and thus its government demanded Union forces leave their state. The moment the siege became a battle and the fort was fired upon by Confederate forces, it seemed clear to all that civil war had begun. No one was killed in the conflict, perhaps a false omen that the civil war which became the bloodiest in American history would not be a costly one. The Union forces at the fort eventually surrendered, thus making it a victory for the Confederates. In the aftermath of the struggle each side called for troops and war soon broke out in full force. The American Civil War saw the defeat of the Southern secessionists and the end of slavery - the ‘peculiar institution’ - in the United States.
Which Union General Should You Fight?
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN: Please, please, PLEASE fight McClellan. He will make it easy for you and everything. He’ll just stand there and let you hit him because he’s too busy trying to figure out if he should attack or not.
AMBROSE BURNSIDE: He might win by the sheer power of his facial hair, so exercise caution when fighting. However, he’s likely to get stuck in mud for no good reason, so you might have a chance.
JOSEPH HOOKER: His nickname might be “Fighting Joe,” but he doesn’t even like that nickname and he’s probably too drunk to properly deal with you, so if you want to fight him, as many people do, you stand a pretty good chance.
GEORGE GORDON MEADE: You can try fighting him if you want to, but God dammit, the man tries. You’ll take one look at his little turtle face and just kind of feel bad.
ULYSSES S. GRANT: Fight Grant all you want. Just show him some blood - your blood, his blood, some other guy’s blood - and you’re good good to go. He’ll be too busy being sick to fight back.
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK: You can fight him, but why??????? Has someone really wronged you so badly that you want to fight this lil nugget?
O. O. HOWARD: Oh, come on, this is even worse than fighting Hancock. HE HAS ONE ARM, YOU TERRIBLE PERSON.
JOHN BUFORD: We will chaaaarge valiantly… and be butchered valiantly! And afterwards men in tall hats and gold watch fobs will thump! their! chest! and say what a braaaaaave charge it was. ..okay, maybe you shouldn’t fight him.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN: Do not fight Sherman he will set you on fire
DANIEL SICKLES: Look, it’s really, really tempting to fight Sickles. He’s a dick. But he literally killed a man in cold blood and pioneered the temporary insanity defense. Do noT DO THIS TO YOURSELF.
EDWIN VOSE SUMNER: Don’t fight Sumner! He looks like Santa Claus, and he hasn’t taken any aspirin, he might just keel over if you hit him. HOWEVER, a bullet allegedly bounced off his head once and his cousin survived a caning, so what have you.
PHILIP SHERIDAN: You probably shouldn’t fight Sheridan. He’s tiny and angry and he’ll fuck you up. And if he doesn’t manage to fuck you up, he’ll fuck up your career instead because he’s just that much of an asshole. Just don’t.
JOHN F. REYNOLDS: Please don’t. All you’ll do is make everyone sad.
Which Confederate General Should You Fight?
ROBERT E. LEE: First of all, what is wrong with you.
STONEWALL JACKSON: This one’s a tough call. The guy’s scary in battle, but if you want to beat him one-on-one, all you have to do is pretend to be a doctor, make up a wacky disease on the spot, and tell him he has it.
JAMES LONGSTREET: If you want to fight Longstreet, just remind him of his tragic past and make him really sad, but then again why would you do that???
J.E.B. STUART: You’re going to really, really want to fight J.E.B. Stuart, but you won’t be able to catch him, since he’ll probably be running circles around you and laughing.
LEWIS ARMISTEAD: I’m guessing you also like to kick puppies in your spare time.
GEORGE PICKETT: Fight him. Ask him where his division is, and then hit him.
JOHN BELL HOOD: I don’t know, you’d probably feel like fighting him, but the dude has one leg and one usable arm. As much as you’d like to mess with Texas and take him on, that’s probably grossly unethical.
RICHARD EWELL: The guy’s got a bird face and peg leg. However, he is not opposed to hitting you with his own peg leg. I think you might as well fight him.
A.P. HILL: This dude has gonorrhea, so you shouldn’t have sex with him, but you can fight him. When you’re fighting him, though, you won’t be able to tell if you’ve made his chest bleed or something because he always his lucky red shirt. And this isn’t Star Trek.
JUBAL EARLY: Lewis Armistead once broke a plate over his head. You, too, are welcome to use Jubal Early to break things.
NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST: PLEASE TAKE THIS BASTARD OUT I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH.
P.G.T. BEAUREGARD: His name is silly and French. You should probably fight him. Actually, no, just do. Fight his silly French ass.
LAFAYETTE MCLAWS: His first name makes him sound like a lovable French marquis, but his last name makes him sound like a grumpy crab. In any case, you should fight him. Unless you’re a peach tree or Dan Sickles’s leg, you should be okay.
Last two veterans of the American Civil War
April 9th 1865: The American Civil War ends
On this day in 1865, 150 years ago, Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia, thus ending the civil war that had ravaged America since 1861. Sectional tensions over slavery, which had existed since the nation’s founding, came to boiling point with the election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860. The outraged Southern states feared the government would attempt to emancipate their slaves, whose labour provided the basis for the Southern economy, and thus seceded to form the Confederate States of America. Hopes for peace were dashed when shots were fired upon the Union Fort Sumter in April 1861, and the nation descended into civil war. The Confederacy, largely led by General Lee, initially had great success and defeated the Union in key battles including at Manassas and Fredericksburg. However, the Union’s superior resources and infrastructure ultimately turned the tide of war in their favour, crushing the Confederates at Gettysburg and with the destruction of Sherman’s march to the sea. Lee surrendered to Grant when hope of Confederate victory was lost, though Grant - out of respect for Lee and his desire for peaceful reconciliation - defied military tradition and allowed Lee to keep his sword and horse. While more armies and generals had yet to surrender, Lee’s surrender essentially marked the end of the deadliest war in American history, which left around 750,000 dead. Union victory ensured the abolition of slavery, opening up questions about what was to be the fate of the four million freedpeople. These debates, as well as how to treat the seceded states and how to negotiate their readmission into the Union, defined the challenges of the postwar Reconstruction era. The Civil War remains a pivotal moment in American history and in many ways, 150 years later, the nation is still struggling to unite the sections and cope with the legacy of slavery.
“The Confederates were now our countrymen, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.” - Grant upon Lee’s surrender
150 years ago
April 9th 1865
General Robert E Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
A never-to-be-forgotten evening was the one spent at our home by the officers who were to start upon their overland trip to the South at 12 o’clock that night. General and Mrs. Johnston were of the party. Before leaving, the General said to his wife, “Come, sing me one or two of the old songs you used to sing, ’ Mary of Argyle,’ and ’ Kathleen Mavourneen.’ ” She complied reluctantly in the presence of such an audience, saying, with deep emotion, that she felt as though her music days were over. Those songs will ever be remembered by the survivors of that mournful gathering. All were endeavoring to conceal, under smiling exteriors, hearts that were filled with sadness over the sundering of life-long ties, and doubts as to the result of their sacrifice.
The most crushed of the party was Major Armistead, who, with tears, which were contagious, streaming down his face, and hands upon Mr. Hancock’s shoulders, while looking him steadily in the eye, said, “Hancock, good-by ; you can never know what this has cost me, and I hope God will strike me dead if I am ever induced to leave my native soil, should worse come to worst.”
Turning to me, he placed a small satchel in my hand, requesting that it should not be opened except in the event of his death, in which case the souvenirs it contained, with the exception of a little prayer-book, intended for me, and which I still possess, should be sent to his family. On the fly-leaf of this book is the following: “Lewis A. Armistead. Trust in God and fear nothing.”
Armistead died in the way that he prayed for.
Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock, by Almira Russell Hancock Pages 69-70
Obit of the Day (Historical): Joshua Chamberlain (1914)
There aren few professors of classical languages who are also military legends. In fact there may be only one - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain - who joined the Maine volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil War only to see him play a significant role in the Battle of Gettysburg, earn the Medal of Honor, and serve as a four-term governor of his home state.
Attending Bowdoin College, Chamberlain studied Greek and Latin under professor Clarence Stowe, while also listening to readings from a new anti-slavery novel written by the professor’s wife, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Upon graduation he attended Bangor Theological Seminary, but rather than becoming a pastor he returned to his alma mater to teach Latin and Greek.
At the outbreak of the war, against the wishes of the college, Chamberlain, who had absolutely no military experience, joined the Maine militia and was given the rank of lieutenant colonel in the 20th Maine regiment. He learned basic military skills through extensive reading as well as from his commanding officer, Colonel Adelbert Ames, a graduate of West Point. (Col. Ames was actually seven years younger than Chamberlain having graduated from the military academy just weeks before receiving his commission.)
The 20th Maine saw little action in the early years of the war. Mr. Chamberlain and his troops were present at Antietam but saw no action. At Fredericksburg, which led to a Union disaster under the command of Gen. Ambrose Burnside, the regiment took only minor casualties. And later at Chancellorsville, the men from Maine were, again observers. It was after the Union loss in this final battle that Col. Ames was promoted to general and Mr. Chamberlain was given command of the entire regiment.
Weeks later Chamberlain and his men were in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, part of the Union line holding a small hill dubbed “Little Round Top.” On the second day of the battle, July 3, 1863, Chamberlain and the 20th were facing attack by Confederate General John B. Hood thoughout the day. Out of ammunition and exhausted from repelling countless attacks Chamberlain gave an order to fix bayonets and charge down the hill. Using a “hinge” maneuver, the 20th Maine headed down while simlutaneously flanking Hood’s troops. They would push the rebels off Little Round Top and take 101 prisoners. Chamberlain was ill with dysentery and malaria while fighting the battle and was put on leave after the Union victory.
Chamberlain returned to command nine months later and placed in charge of the Union’s Fifth Corps. He led them during the Battle of Petersburg where he was severely injured but literally held himself upright on his sword which he planted in the ground. His actions earned him a promotion to brigadier general, although it was awarded under the assumption that Chamberlain was dying of his wounds.
Just days later General Chamberlain was placed in charge of the Union troops at Appomattox Courthouse. As the Confederate troops marched away from the scene of surrender, Chamberlain, to the outrage of some, ordered his soldiers to attention and to present arms, while saluting the vanquished foes.
After the war, like many military heroes, Chamberlain decided venture into politics and ran for governor of Maine in 1866. He set a record for most votes as well as percentage of the electorate won (62.4%). (A record he himself broke in 1868.) In the mid-19th century Maine’s guberntorial term was only one-year, and Chamberlain ran four consecutive times, winning each election.
In 1893, the 30th annivesary of Gettysburg, Chamberlain was awarded the Medal of Honor for his “daring heroism and great tenacity” at Little Round Top. Although by this point there was some debate as to whether Chamberlain actually ordered the charge, the myth had outgrown any chance of doubt and Chamberlain was a Union legend.
He made one last vain attempt to attain miliary glory by volunteering for service at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. The 69-year-old was turned down.
Active in the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization created by Union veterans of the Civil War, he was instrumental in planning the 50th anniversary ceremonies at Gettysburg but was too ill to attend. And just seven months later, at the age of 84, Chamberlain died from complications from wounds suffered 50 years earlier at Petersburg. He was the last U.S. Civil War veteran to die of war wounds.
Joshua Lawerence Chamberlain was laid to rest in Pine Grove Cemetery in Brunswick, Maine.
Sources: The Civil War Trust and Wikipedia
(The portrait of Joshua Chamberlain, circa 1865, was taken by famed Civil War photographer Matthew Brady and is in the Library of Congress. Courtesy of Wikimedia.)
Obit of the Day’s previous posts on the Civil War:
The Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Gettysburg
Two survivors of the Battle of Gettysburg at the 50th anniversary reunion, July 1913.
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