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Category Archives: Biography
Ulysses Simpson Grant – 18th U.S. President and General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army (1822-1885)
Born Hiram Ulysses Grant, he unprotestingly accepted the clerical error changing his name to Ulysses Simpson Grant when he entered West Point in 1839. His new name, U.S. Grant, lent itself to his Old Army nickname, Uncle Sam Grant, or … Continue reading
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Tagged 12th Illinois Infantry, 1885, 18th president, 21st Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, Cairo, Chattanooga, Cold Harbor, Corinth, Don Carlos Buell, Fort Donelson, Fort Henry, Frederick Dent, Galena, George B. McClellan, Governor Richard Yates, Henry W. Halleck, Hiram Ulysses Grant, Illinois, Julia Dent, Kentucky, Lookout Mountain, lung cancer, Mexico, Nashville, President Grant, Robert E. Lee, Simon Buckner, Spotsylvania, Tennessee, Ulysses S. Grant, Unconditional Surrender, Virginia, West Point, White House, Wilderness, Zachary Taylor
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Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman, C.S.A. (Jan. 18,1816- May 16,1863)
Born near Claiborne, Maryland, on 18 January 1816, Lloyd Tilghman graduated from West Point in 1836. He decided not to become a professional soldier and resigned from the service. His only active military duty came during the Mexican War (1846-1848), … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, 1863, Biography, Casualties
Tagged 1862, 1863, Andrew H. Foote, Brigadier General, Champion Hill, Confederacy, Fort Donelson, Fort Henry, Kentucky, killed in action, Land between the Lakes, Lloyd Tilghman, Lloyd Tilghman House & Museum, Maryland, Mississippi, Paducah, surrender, Tennessee, Vicksburg
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Lieutenant General Wade Hampton III, C.S.A. (1818-1902)
Born Wade Hampton III in Charleston, South Carolina, the man who would assume J.E.B. Stuart’s mantle had much to live up to even at birth. His grandfather, the first Wade Hampton, had served in the American Revolution, and both his … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Gettysburg, Graves
Tagged Army of Northern Virginia, Bourbon Democrats, cavalry, Confederacy, CSA, Douglas Southall Freeman, emancipated slaves, First Bull Run, Fitzhugh Lee, Governor, Hampton Legion, Jefferson Davis, Petersburg, Ream's Station, Robert E. Lee, South Carolina, Travilian Station, Wade Hampton III
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Brigadier General Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (1812-1862) C.S.A.
Born in Maury County, Tennessee, on 19 May 1812, Felix Kirk Zollicoffer was of Swiss ancestry. He received some formal educational training before entering the newspaper business at age sixteen, and later rose to state prominence as editor of several … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, Biography, Casualties, Graves, This Date in Civil War History
Tagged 1812, 1862, Crittenden, Felix Zollicoffer, Kentucky, Logan's Crossroads, Mill Springs, Nashville, Tennessee
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Historian: Civil War regiment endured much
By CHRIS SHOLLY, Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News At the start of the Civil War, hundreds of Lebanon County men enlisted in the military, but many of them didn’t return, and many that did had the scars of battle to bear. … Continue reading
In Memory: Senator Edward Dickinson Baker (1811-1861)
Edward Baker was born in London, England. his family moved to the United States in 1815, and Baker spent the next ten years of his life in Philadelphia before his family moved to Indiana and then Illinois. While still a … Continue reading
Excerpts from Midnight Rising: John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
A new book on the famed abolitionist John Brown will be released next week (Oct. 25). It is written by Tony Horwitz, who previously wrote the best-seller, “Confederates in the Attic.” Bloomberg recently posted five excerpts in advance of this … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Books
Tagged 1856, Bloody Kansas, Elijah Lovejoy, Harpers Ferry, J.E.B. Stuart, John Brown, Kansas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lawrence, Midnight Rising, Robert E. Lee, Tony Horwitz
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Douglas Hancock Cooper biography
Born November 1, 1815, to a Baptist minister and physician, Douglas Hancock Cooper attended the University of Virginia from 1832 to 1834. He returned to Mississippi to marry Martha Collins of Natchez. The Coopers raised seven children on their plantation, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1861, Albert Pike, Brigadier General, Chicasaw Mounted Rifles, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Chustenahlah, Chusto-Talasah, Confederate States of America, Douglas Hancock Cooper, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Washita, Honey Springs, Indian Agent, Indian removal, Indian Territory, Jefferson Davis, Kirby Smith, Martha Collins, Mississippi, Mon Clova, Monterey, Newtonia, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Historical Society, Round Mountain, Sam Bell Maxey, William H. Emory, William Steele
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Biography of the Day: General William Wing Loring, C.S.A.
General William Wing Loring, C.S.A. (1818-1886) Born to Reuben Loring and Hannah Kenan Loring in Wilmington, North Carolina, William Wing Loring moved with his family to St. Augustine, Florida, when he was a small child. As a teenager he fought … Continue reading
