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Thomas W. Chittum is an American author, [1] military analyst [2] and former mercenary from New Jersey, now living in Washington state. [3] He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War . [ 4 ] Chittum also fought in the Rhodesian War and the Croatian War of Independence as a mercenary.
USS Two Sisters was a small 54-ton captured Confederate schooner acquired by the Union Navy from the prize court during the American Civil War.. Two Sisters was put into service as a gunboat and, when required, as a ship's tender, by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
the various orders of sisters who gave their services as nurses on battlefields and in hospitals during the civil war. on the rear of the slab near the base is inscribed: erected by the ladies auxiliary to the ancient order of hibernians of america. a.d. 1924 by authority of the congress of the united states. [3]
Newton Knight (November 10, 1829 – February 16, 1922) was an American farmer, soldier, and Southern Unionist in Mississippi, best known as the leader of the Knight Company, a band of Confederate Army deserters who resisted the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Chittum is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Nelson Chittum (born 1933), American baseball player; Thomas W. Chittum (born 1947), American mercenary
The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, also called the Battle of Walnut Hills, [3] fought December 26–29, 1862, was the opening engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign during the American Civil War. Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton repulsed an advance by Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman that was intended to lead to the capture of ...