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Union: Branch: United States Army Union Army: Type: Infantry: Part of: Army of the Potomac: Nickname(s) "The Bloody Eleventh" Mascot(s) Sallie (dog) Engagements: Battle of Hoke's Run Battle of Bunker Hill (1861) Battle of Cedar Mountain Battle of Thoroughfare Gap Second Battle of Bull Run Battle of Antietam Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of ...
Theodore Harvey Barrett (1834-1900) was an American Brevet Brigadier General who commanded the 1st Missouri Colored Infantry Regiment in the later years of the American Civil War and was known as the commander of the Battle of Palmito Ranch which was the final battle of the war.
Mosby was born in Powhatan County, Virginia, on December 6, 1833, to Virginia McLaurine Mosby and Alfred Daniel Mosby, a graduate of Hampden–Sydney College.His father was a member of an old Virginia family of English origin whose ancestor, Richard Mosby, was born in England in 1600 [4] and settled in Charles City, Virginia in the early 17th century.
Union Army artillery fired at McLean's house, which was being used as a headquarters for Confederate Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard, and a cannonball dropped through the kitchen fireplace. Beauregard wrote after the battle, "A comical effect of this artillery fight was the destruction of the dinner of myself and staff by a Federal shell ...
The battle raged on the north side of the hill in predominantly open grass country; the south side was relatively closely covered with trees. The hill received its name from Dr. Isaac Henry, who lived with his family in a house on the plateau of the hill. On July 21, 1861, the house was inhabited by his widow, Judith Carter Henry, and their two ...
The battle continued until General Lee, who was also observing the battle, thought this engagement was about to turn into a battle of itself. Lee ordered his troops to disengage and head to Richmond. Grant and Hancock claimed victory, as they had forced a retreat of the enemy and officially ended the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse.
He led the 69th to Washington, D.C., and served for a while in the Washington defenses building Fort Corcoran. In July he led the regiment into action at the First Battle of Bull Run and was taken prisoner. Corcoran was one of the founders of the Fenian Brotherhood in America. While in jail, Corcoran wrote, "One half of my heart is Erin's, and ...
While there is no unanimous view on which battle's outcome or development represented the Civil War's turning point, the victory of the Union army in the Battle of Gettysburg, fought over three days from July 1 to July 3, 1863 in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, followed immediately by the Union victory in the Siege of Vicksburg is often ...