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The Anaconda Plan
General-in-Chief Winfield Scott’s Anaconda Plan was a strategy to blockade the South by sea, and gain control of the Mississippi River. This would split the South, and eventually deprive it...
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Civil War Casualties
How Many Died in the Civil War? Dead at Spotsylvania, 1864. A casualty is someone injured, killed, captured, or missing in a military engagement. The Civil War had plenty of all these. The casualty...
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Ulysses S. Grant’s General Order to the “Soldiers of the Armies of the United...
General Orders No. 108 Washington, D.C., June 2, 1865 General Ulysses S. Grant issues his General Orders No. 108., in which he thanks his soldiers for their service to the Union. It was time for Johnny...
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General John Buford’s Spencer Carbine Rifles
Spencer Carbines Helped John Buford’s Unmounted Cavalry Hold The High Ground …Or Did Buford’s Cavalry Use A Different Carbine? Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. As General John Buford’s unmounted cavalry held...
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