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Amnesty Petition of John Newland Maffitt, June 1, 1867
Wilmington N.C.
June 1st 1867
To his Excellency
Andrew Johnson President of the United States
The petition of John N Maffitt of North Carolina for pardon under the Proclamation of your Excellency of May 1865 respectfully represents that he is…
William Tecumseh Sherman, 1820-1891
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was a major-general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Sherman gained success in the Western Theater and oversaw the Military Division of the Mississippi after Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to the head of…
Amnesty Petition of Joseph W. Alexander, June 13, 1865
Tags: Amnesty, Military Authority, Officers, Veterans
Archer Jones, "Military Means, Political Ends" (1992)
During the early winter of 1863-64, Grant completed the formulation of a new strategy, one in which the Union would give up its reliance on the persisting strategy of territorial conquest but still pursue its logistic strategy of crippling the…
Amnesty Petition of John N. Maffitt, June 1, 1867
Tags: Amnesty, Military Authority, Officers, Veterans
Henry Slocum, General Orders No. 8., March 7, 1865
GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 8.
HEADWUARTERS LEFT WING,
ARMY OF GEORGIA
Near Sneedsborough, N.C., March 7, 1865.
All officers and soldiers of this command are reminded that the State of North Caronia was one of the last States that passed the ordinance…
Joseph Glatthaar, The March to the Sea and Beyond (1985)
Ever since Sherman and his army embarked upon their march to the coast of Georgia and, later, through the Carolinas, the two campaigns earned the dubious distinction as the most controversial of the Civil War and possibly in American military…
Francis Preston Blair Jr., Special Orders No. 63, March 10, 1865
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 63. Near Rockfish Creek, N. C., March 10, 1865. I. Division commanders will cause a sufficient number of good cattle to be collected in the country to have fifteen days' supply of beef…
David Dixon Porter, 1813-1891
Admiral David Dixon Porter was born into a family with a rich history of distinguished naval service on July 8, 1813 in Chester, Pennsylvania. Porter was the son of Commodore David Porter, a distinguished United States naval officer. Appointed to the…
Tags: Battle, Military Authority
Account of David Porter, ca. 1865
The day of General Sherman's arrival at City Point, I accompanied him and General Grant on board the President's flagship, the Queen, where the President received us in the upper saloon, no one but ourselves being present.
The President was in an…
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D. H. Hill, 1859-1924
Daniel Harvey (D. H.) Hill (1859-1924), the son of Confederate general D. H. Hill, was an important figure in the commemoration of the Civil War and…