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The Untried Life: The Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. Ohio University Press, 2012, also known as the Giddings Regiment or the Abolition Regiment, after its founder, radical abolitionist Congressman JR Giddings. Bissland, James, Blood, Tears, and Glory: How Ohioans Won the Civil War. Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press ...
The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox Court House, by General Robert E. Lee and concluded with the surrender of the CSS Shenandoah on November 6, 1865, bringing the hostilities of the American Civil War to a close. [1]
Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War.
Morgan's Raid (also the Calico Raid or Great Raid of 1863) was a diversionary incursion by Confederate cavalry into the Union states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia during the American Civil War. The raid took place from June 11 to July 26, 1863.
The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces opened fire on the Union-held Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter is located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. [47] Its status had been contentious for months. Outgoing President Buchanan had dithered in reinforcing its garrison, commanded by Major Robert Anderson.
Charles A. Misulia, Columbus, Georgia, 1865: The Last True Battle of the Civil War Archived 2013-03-15 at the Wayback Machine, University of Alabama Press, 2010; Richard Gardiner, "The Last Battle of the Civil War and Its Preservation", Journal of America's Military Past XXXVIII (Spring/Summer 2013), pp. 5–22.
The Most Incredible Prison Escape of the Civil War. New Albany, Indiana: FBH Publishing. ISBN 0-925165-04-2. Duke, Basil Wilson (1867). A History of Morgan's Cavalry. Cincinnati, Ohio: Miami Printing and Pub. Co. Horwitz, Lester V. (1999). The Longest Raid of the Civil War. Cincinnati, Ohio: Farmcourt Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-9670267-3-3.
Two years later, at Appomattox Court House in 1865, the Civil War ended in the Union's favor. While Gettysburg was seen by military and civilian observers at the time as a great battle, those in the North were less aware that two more bloody years would be required to ultimately end the Civil War in the Union's favor.