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Hace 2 días · While Meade gained a decisive victory over Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, it was not until newly appointed general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant arrived from the western theater in 1864 to take personal control of operations in Virginia that Union forces were able to capture Richmond, but only after several bloody battles ...
Hace 1 día · Battle of Gettysburg, (July 1–3, 1863), major engagement in the American Civil War, fought 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that was a crushing Southern defeat.
Hace 1 día · This 1863 oval-shaped map depicts the Gettysburg Battlefield during July 1–3, 1863, showing troop and artillery positions and movements, relief hachures, drainage, roads, railroads, and houses with the names of residents at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. This November 1862 Harper's Magazine illustration shows Confederate Army troops escorting captured African American civilians south ...
Hace 4 días · George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.. Custer graduated from West Point and though he has been misleadingly characterized as an inept student for having been last in his graduating class, he actually finished thirty-fourth out of a starting class of one hundred ...
Hace 5 días · Riding about Culpeper County on his large, bay horse, Cincinnati, while inspecting the hardened troops of the Army of the Potomac, Grant was concurrently assessed by the war-tested veterans of Antietam and Gettysburg.
Hace 5 días · The Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches in American history. Despite being only 272 words, President Abraham Lincoln's speech was filled with allusions to other famous words, including the Declaration of Independence, the Bible, and Pericles' Funeral Oration. Lincoln spoke of overarching themes like equality, freedom, and ...
Hace 1 día · T.I.M.E. Inc: Working With Urban Farming Grants and Microgrants for Farmers; Help Comes to Haiti and the Mississippi Delta with Nonprofit Grants; GrantTalk Episode 3: From Grants to Good Deeds: The Be Rose International Foundation Story; GrantTalk Episode 2: From Grants to Great Performances, Inside Sequim City Band’s Journey
