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Chancellorsville May 1, 1863
Robert E. Lee’s Masterpiece May 1, 1863 Robert E. Lee At the Battle of Chancellorsville Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia is outnumbered by Union Major General Joseph “Fighting Joe” Hooker’s Army of the...
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Chancellorsville May 2, 1863
Lee And Jackson Make Battle Plans May 2, 1863 Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson meet at Chancellorsville. The night of May 1, Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson are...
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Chancellorsville May 3 – 6, 1863
Any Victory Would Be Dear At Such A Cost May 3-6, 1863 Stonewall Jackson shot at Chancellorsville. Stonewall Jackson, shot by friendly fire from North Carolina troops the night of May 2, has his...
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Civil War Poet Walt Whitman Born This Day in 1819
Walt Whitman – A Poet Of The Civil War Walt Whitman’s father Walter, was a house builder, and his mother’s name was Louisa. The Whitman family had nine children with Walt being the second son. The...
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Seeing the Elephant
Seeing the Elephant – How it Feels to be Under Fire During the Civil War, soldiers would speak about “Seeing the elephant.” The “elephant” was battle, combat, being under enemy fire. Confederate...
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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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Quotes By Robert E. Lee Before, During, And After The Civil War
Robert E. Lee at Fredericksburg Robert Edward Lee was born on January 19, 1807, at Stratford, Virginia. He was the son of Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, a Revolutionary War hero. He graduated second in...
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