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Hace 2 días · Booknotes: Southern Cross. • Southern Cross: A New View of Leonidas Polk and His Clashes with Braxton Bragg by Amanda Low Warren ( McFarland, 2024). A quick skim over Southern Cross: A New View of Leonidas Polk and His Clashes with Braxton Bragg reveals an author with strong objections to how historians past and present have presented the ...
Hace 6 días · When Lieutenant Gen. Leonidas Polk was killed at Pine Mountain, Loring briefly took charge of the corps but was succeeded the same day by Lieutenant Gen.Alexander P. Stewart. He served in the Atlanta Campaign and the Carolina Campaign.
Hace 3 días · Leonidas Polk (1806–1864), Episcopal bishop and Confederate general, he enslaved people on his Tennessee plantation. Samuel Polk (1772–1827), father of President James K. Polk. Sarah Childress Polk (1803–1891), First lady, wife of James K. Polk, one of the first female plantation owners in Tennessee.
Hace 3 días · DIED. October 1, 1864. Wilmington, North Carolina. ARMY. Confederate. Greenhow was born as Maria Rosatta O'Neale, and was orphaned as a child. As a teenager O'Neal moved from her family's Maryland farm to her aunt's fashionable boardinghouse in Washington, D.C. Personable, intelligent, and outgoing, she adapted easily to the social scene of the ...
Hace 9 horas · The 1892 United States presidential election was the 27th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1892. In the fourth rematch in American history, former Democratic President Grover Cleveland defeated incumbent Republican President Benjamin Harrison. Cleveland's victory made him the first and, to date, the only person in ...
Hace 4 días · Learn about the generals and political leaders who shaped the Civil War, from both the Union and Confederate sides. Explore their battles, facts, and documents.
Hace 6 días · Cheatham proved himself to be a highly capable commander at brigade through corps level. He received a commission in the Confederate Army on July 9, 1861, and was promoted to major general on March 10, 1862. He took part in the battles of Belmont, Shiloh (where he was wounded), Perryville, Stone's River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw ...
