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Battles by Theater and Year


[edit] August 30, 2007 - September 9, 2007

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This 1863 Mathew Brady photograph of Brigadier General Charles Pomeroy Stone is notable because of the unusual inclusion of his 8 year-old daughter Hettie.


[edit] September 10, 2007 - September 16, 2007

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This Harper's Weekly etching depicts Morgan's Raiders entering Washington, Ohio in August, 1863.


[edit] September 17, 2007 - September 23, 2007

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This photograph depicts wartime Washington D.C.'s chain bridge across the Potomac River.


[edit] September 24, 2007 - September 30, 2007

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This recent photograph taken at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery include graves of Civil War soldiers and veterans.


[edit] October 1, 2007 - October 7, 2007

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American poet Walt Whitman spent much time in wartime Washington D.C. nursing wounded soldiers.


[edit] October 8, 2007 - October 14, 2007

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Eads ironclad gunboats like the USS Cairo helped the Union Navy maintain a dominant presence in Mississippi river valley waterways.


[edit] October 15, 2007 - October 21, 2007

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This 1889 lithograph by Kurz and Allison depicts the Battle of Hampton Roads engagement between the Monitor and the Merrimac on March 9, 1862.


[edit] October 22, 2007 - October 28, 2007

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This editorial cartoon jokingly depicts Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan as "Scott's Great Snake." Though initially derided by critics, the Union naval blockade advocated by Scott became a major reason for the North's eventual success over the Confederacy.


[edit] October 29, 2007 - November 4, 2007

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The rectangular Confederate Navy Jack or "Southern Cross" has become known as the Confederate national symbol, but the battle flag was actually square in shape.


[edit] November 5, 2007-November 11, 2007

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Fort Jefferson at the Dry Tortugas. Imprisoned here after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Doctor Samuel Mudd saved many prisoners and guards during an 1867 yellow fever epidemic, earning a presidential pardon.


[edit] November 12, 2007-November 18, 2007

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President Abraham Lincoln meets with George B. McClellan, commanding general of the Army of the Potomac in his headquarters tent October 3, 1862. Within weeks, Lincoln would dismiss McClellan.


[edit] November 19, 2007-November 25, 2007

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This Kurz and Allison lithograph portrayal of the Rappahannock River crossing at Fredericksburg on the morning of December 13, 1862 demonstrates many of the processes of building a pontoon bridge under enemy fire.


[edit] November 26, 2007-December 2, 2007

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This pen and ink map of the positions of Federal troops at the Battle of Rich Mountain was drawn by topographical engineer E.O. Poe on July 11 and 12, 1861 for George B. McClellan.


[edit] December 3, 2007-December 9, 2007

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This photograph of a dead Confederate soldier in Devil's Den was taken at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 6 or July 7, 1863 by Timothy O'Sullivan. The photo may have been staged for dramatic effect with a body recovered elsewhere.


[edit] December 10, 2007-December 16, 2007

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This sutler's tent sold provisions to soldiers in the second division, Ninth Corps, during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864.


[edit] December 17, 2007-December 23, 2007

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[edit] December 24, 2007-December 31, 2007

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