Result(s): Union victory Location: Henrico County Campaign: RichmondPetersburg Campaign (June 1864March 1865) next battle in campaign

previous battle in campaign Date(s): September 29-30, 1864 Principal Commanders: Major General Benjamin Butler [US]; General Robert E. Lee and Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell [CS] Forces Engaged: Armies Estimated Casualties: 4,430 total Fort Burnham, Virginia (the former Confederate Fort Harrison). Federal soldiers in front of bombproof headquarters

Virginia State Battle Map 1864 State Battle Maps History of Colored Troops Appomattox Courthouse Women Civil War Soldiers Civil War Music 72 Piece Civil War Army Men Civil War Play Set 52mm Union and Confederate Campaigns Figures, Bridge, Horses, Canon Ships and Naval Cavalry Saber 48 Union and Confederate Soldiers up Battles Civil War Timeline This fine replica is 39 inches overall to 2-1/8 inches tall and features a highly polished 33 inch 4 Horses, 4 Sandbag Bunkers, 6 Fence American Civil carbon steel blade. Its leather wrapped Sections, 3 Cannon, 3 Limber Wagons War Exhibits handle fits the hand perfectly and sports (Ammo Carts) Confederate decorative brass accents and a shiny Commanders Bridge, Small Barracks, brass pommel. Documents of the Civil War Civil War Store American Civil War Book Titles Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry July 18, 1863, the African American soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry led a courageous but ill-fated charge on Fort Wagner, a key bastion guarding Charleston harbor. Confederate defenders killed, wounded, or made prisoners of half the regiment. Only hours later, the body of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the regiment's white commander, was thrown into a mass grave with those of twenty of his men.

Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie: Reminiscences of a Confederate Cavalryman Mosgrove was born in Kentucky, in 1844, and enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment on September 10, 1862. His eyewitness account illuminates the western theater of the Civil War in Kentucky, east Tennessee, and southwest Virginia

The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Account of the impact of the railroads on the American Civil War and vice versa. How the North was helped to victory through its effective use of the rails, also how the war changed the way railroads were built, run and financed after the war. The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865 The Author canvases the whole 292-day campaign for Petersburg and Richmond. Trudeau salts his narrative with healthy doses of official testimony and soldiers' personal accounts to create a brisk documentary flavor of campfire and war council. In minute detail he covers every clod of Virginia soil

Mosby's Rangers From 1863 to the end, Mosby's raiders were a constant headache for the North. More than 1,000 men served under Mosby, they usually acted in small detachments of several dozen, sacking supply depots, attacking railroads, and harassing federal troops. They seemed to move behind enemy lines almost at will.

General Jo Shelby Undefeated Rebel When the Confederacy fell, Shelby refused to surrender and instead took his command to Mexico, where they fought in support of the emperor Maximilian. Upon his return to Missouri, Shelby became an immensely popular figure in the state Swallowed Up in Victory: A Civil War Narrative, Petersburg, 18641865 Written with a meticulous attention to its historical background and context, Lee Passarella's Swallowed Up In Victory: A Civil War Narrative Petersburg, 18641865 is an engrossing novel of the final year of the American Civil War, centering on the bloody attacks waged on Petersburg through the surrender at

trod by Grant and Lee in the final days of the war. His telling of the horrors of the Crater and his vignettes of officers are compelling, but overall Trudeau fails to show how Petersburg was "the South's Gethsemane." The author writes about battles more than the Southern soul or the politics of war. Still, he dashes several myths about Petersburg--that Lee's army was starved and hopelessly outnumbered-and provides one of the most arresting narratives of any Civil War campaign. Civil War History Documentary DVD Movie Titles

Appomattox. The letters and journal entries of a group of fictitious people swept up by the turmoil of war make for a unique story that feels as real and vivid as if the writings had been rescued from forgotten family records. A compelling Civil War story, Swallowed Up In Victory is enthusiastically recommended for historical fiction readers in general, and Civil War history buffs in particular.

Gettysburg / Gods and Generals The tide of the war

Civil War Combat: America's Bloodiest Battles

Civil War Journal - The

The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns Here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic

changes during three fierce days of combat at Gettysburg [Disc 1] the gripping saga of the tactics command errors and sacrifices behind the bloodiest battle ever fought on U.S. soil. Gods and Generals [Disc 2] reveals the spirited allegiances and fierce combat of earlier Civil War struggles

The violent mayhem of the hornet's nest at Shiloh, the valiant charge on the sunken road at Antietam, the carnage in the wheat field at Gettysburg, and the brutal fighting at Cold Harbor

Conflict Begins These four programs from the History Channel series Civil War Journal cover critical aspects of the early days of the war.

and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one

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Colored Troops displayed their worth at the Battle of New Market Heights (Chaffin's Farm) near Richmond on September 29, 1864. Fourteen men, including Christian Fleetwood, who later became an active community leader in Washington, D.C. were presented the Medal of Honor for valor at New Market Heights. Several were awarded to men who took charge of their units after all white commanders had fallen. Soldiers of distinction were also given the Army of the James or "Butler" medal, designated by champion of the black troops, Gen. Benjamin Butler and the only medal created solely for the United States Colored Troops