Battle of Shiloh by Thure de Thulstrup.Planning and StrategyMaj Gen Don Carlos Buell and the Army of the Ohio had taken Nashville in February 1862. He ...
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Ulysses S. Grant.Important Union Contributions:· Brigadier General Benjamin Prentiss who commanded the 6th Division in the Union center. He was a ...
Emigrants Crossing the Plains. Drawn by F.O.C. Darley, engraved by Henry Bryan Hall.“You have no idea how few women we have here, a San Francisco lawyer ...
A Russian Emancipation Reform took place in 1861. The above painting is Peasants Reading the Emancipation Manifesto, an 1873 painting by Grigory ...
Abraham Lincoln and George B. McClellan in the general's tent during the Battle of Antietam on October 3, 1862.“No other general in the war commanded ...
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson 1864 campaign poster.The Republican Party ConventionThe Republican Convention was held the first week of June, and the ...
The Battle of Sinope by Alexey Bogolyubov.At its core, the Crimean War was a crucible of competing interests. It stemmed from the gradual disintegration ...
Tsar Nicholas I of Russia in the 1850s. By Georg von Bothmann.From the battle-scarred plains of Crimea to the diplomatic chambers of Europe, the war ...
Louisa May Alcott at around 20 years old.Why Louisa became a Civil War NurseLouisa May Alcott had several reasons for wanting to become a nurse during ...
President Buchanan and the Election of 1856The factors that shaped the 1860 Election became evident shortly after the 1856 Election. The Democratic ...
The CampaignFollowing his nomination, Lincoln adopted a campaign strategy typical of the era, opting for a stay-at-home approach that involved no public ...
The Treaty of Paris (1856): Terms and ConsequencesThe war formally concluded with the Treaty of Paris, signed on the 30th of March, 1856. Negotiations in ...