The Quirky History,Savannah,Georgia And The United States

  William McKinley  was a Civil War veteran himself. President McKinley, who had fought for the Union, showed no animosity toward men who had fought for the other side.Incidentally,  William McKinley  was a Civil War veteran himself. President McKinley, who had fought for the Union, showed no animosity toward men who had fought for the other side.

Joseph Wheeler , another Confederate officer in the Civil War, served in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. Wheeler (West Point, 1859) commanded the 19th Alabama at the battle of Shiloh and the siege of Corinth, and went on to command the 2nd Cavalry Brigade in Braxton Bragg’s Army of Mississippi. General Wheeler clashed repeatedly with Nathan Bedford Forrest, but retained Bragg’s faith in his ability. Joe Wheeler’s Civil War career ended in 1865, when Union troops captured him at Conyer’s Station, near Atlanta. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, President William McKinley appointed Wheeler major general of volunteers. General Wheeler took charge of the cavalry division (Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders were part of his command). In 1899 Wheeler headed to the Philippines to command the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division in the Philippine-American War.

Maj. Gen. Matthew Calbraith Butler , Confederate States Army, became a major general of U.S. Volunteers in the Spanish-American War—despite having lost his right foot in the battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863.

Enlarge   Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee (National Archives Identifiers 558720 and 525769) Appomattox. To many Americans the word Appomattox is synonymous with the end of the Civil War. The war, however, did not officially conclude at that tiny village west of Petersburg, Virginia. But what happened there in early April 150 years ago certainly marked the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. After the fall of Richmond, the Confederate capital, on April 2, 1865, officials in the Confederate government, including President Jefferson Davis, fled. The dominoes began to fall. The surrender at Appomattox took place a week later on April 9. While it was the most significant surrender to take place during the Civil War, Gen. Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy's most respected commander, surrendered  only  his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Several other Confederate forces—some large units, some small&madsh;had yet to surrender before P...

A Topic hardly written about. Women Soldiers In The Civil War. The outbreak of the Civil War challenged traditional American notions of feminine submissiveness and domesticity with hundreds of examples of courage, diligence, and self-sacrifice in battle. The war was a formative moment in the early feminist movement. In July of 1863, a Union burial detail at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania made a startling discovery near Cemetery Ridge. Among the bodies covering the ground--the wreckage of the Confederate attacks during the battle--the Union men found a dead woman wearing the uniform of a Confederate private. The burial detail had stumbled upon one of the most intriguing stories of the Civil War: the multitudes of women who fought in the front line. Although the inherently clandestine nature of the activity makes an accurate count impossible, conservative estimates of female soldiers in the Civil War puts the number somewhere between 400 and 750. Long viewed by historians as anomalies, recent ...

Irene Triplett, the last person receiving a pension from the U.S. Civil War, has died at the age of 90. Ms. Triplett’s father, Mose Triplett, started fighting in the war for the Confederacy, but defected to the North in 1863. That decision earned his daughter Irene, the product of a late-in-life marriage to a woman almost 50 years his junior, a pension of $73.13 a month from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Ms. Triplett, who suffered from mental disabilities, qualified for federal financial support as a helpless ((CQ)) adult child of a veteran. She died Sunday from complications following surgery for injuries from a fall, according to the Wilkesboro, N.C., nursing home where she lived. The Triplett family was the subject of a Page One article in The Wall Street Journal in 2014. Get news and analysis on politics, policy, national security and more, delivered right to your inbox Pvt. Triplett enlisted in the 53rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment in May 1862, then transferred to the 26...

I wrote about The CSS Georgia in March Of 2015.It was my first story to go viral on Facebook. It is about The South's War Ship that sank in the Savannah River.In 2015 a amazing undertaking of bringing up The CSS Georgia was started. The deepening of the shipping channel in Savannah, Georgia, won’t be dredging up just mud and sand. For about the next nine months, divers will be working to bring up the CSS Georgia, piece by rusted piece, from nearly 40 feet down in the Savannah River. CSS Georgia, also known as State of Georgia and Ladies’ Ram, was built in Savannah, Georgia in 1862 and was originally designed to be an ironclad warship. Funding in the amount of $115,000 for her construction was provided by the Ladies’ Gunboat Association. The removal of the CSS Georgia is necessary for the state and federal project, which will see the channel go from 42 to 47 feet so massive cargo container ships can use the port without relying on the tide. After settling to the bottom of Savannah R...