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Tag Archives: Chickasaw
This Week in the American Civil War – April 2- April 8, 1862 (150 years ago)
Easy Plugin for AdSense by Unreal Information Courtesy of the Minn. Civil War Commemoration Task Force Major Highlights for the week Wednesday April 2, 1862 Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston issued orders for the movement of his newly organized army at … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, Battles, This Week in the Civil War
Tagged 16th U.S. Infantry, 1st Minnesota Light Artillery, abolishing slavery, Alabama, Albert Sidney Johnston, Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Prentiss, Bloody Pond, Cairo, Carondelet, casualties at Shiloh, Chickasaw, compensated emancipation, Corinth, Don Carlos Buell, Earl Van Dorn, Eastport, Fort Pillow, General George B. McClellan, gunboats, heavy rain, Hornets Nest, illegal slave trade, Illinois, Irvin McDowell, Island No. 10, John B. Magruder, John Pope, Joseph E. Johnston, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, Monterey, Nashville, New Madrid, Oakland Cemetery, oath of allegiance, P.G.T. Beauregard, Peach Orchard, Peninsula Campaign, Pittsburg Landing, President Abraham Lincoln, Richmond, Savannah, Shiloh Church, St. Paul, Sunken Road, Tennessee, tornado, U.S. Senate, Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia, W.H.L. Wallace, William Acker, Yorktown
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This Week in the American Civil War – March 26- April 1, 1862
Information courtesy of the Minnesota Civil War Commemoration Task Force Major Highlights for the week Wednesday March 26, 1862 The Confederate campaign in New Mexico was nearing its climax. A Confederate column marched out on the Santa Fe Trail and … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, This Week in the Civil War
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alabama, Albert Sidney Johnston, Alexandria, Apache Canyon, Army of Central Kentucky, Brackett's Battalion, Braxton Bragg, Chickasaw, Clinton, Dakota Territory, David Hunter, Department of the South, Eastport, Edenburg, Fort Abercrombie, Fort Henry, Fort Monroe, Fort Ridgely, Fort Ripley, Fort Snelling, George B. McClellan, George Bibb Crittenden, George W. Morgan, Georgia, Glorieta Pass, Henry Hopkins Sibley, Hilton Head, Hiram Berdan, Island No. 10, J.M. Chivington, John B. Magruder, John C. Fremont, John P. Slough, John Porter McCown, Johnson's Ranch, Joseph E. Johnston, Kentucky, Leonidas Polk, Louis Blenker, Minnesota, Minnesota Civil War Commemoration Task Force, Missouri, Mountain Department, Nashville, New Madrid, New Mexico Territory, P.G.T. Beauregard, Peninsula Campaign, Pigeon's Ranch, Pittsburg Landing, Richmond, Santa Fe, Savannah, Second Baptist Church Battery, Shenandoah Valley, South Carolina, St. Louis, Strausburg, Tennessee, Thomas J. Jackson, Union City, Virginia, W.R. Scurry, Washington DC, Whitemarsh Island, William J. Hardee, William Rosecrans, William W. Mackall, Wilmington Island, Woodstock
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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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