Mattie Turnipseed, Meghan’s great-great-great-grandmother, grew up in or around Jonesboro, Georgia, after the American Civil War of 1861-65, which had laid waste to the area.

J. Arthur Brown was a businessman who worked as a real estate and insurance broker. He also served as president of the Charleston chapter of the NAACP in 1955. Brown was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1914. After graduating from the Avery Institute in 1932 he continued his education at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, SC ...

Horatio Wright commanded troops in Civil War battles fought all over the country, from Virginia to Florida, and out West as far as Ohio.

General James Longstreet was a trusted subordinate of Robert E. Lee, but was criticized for the loss at Gettysburg and his later support of Republican policies.

John A. Logan, in full John Alexander Logan, (born February 9, 1826, Jackson county, Illinois, U.S.—died December 26, 1886, Washington, D.C.), U.S. politician, Union general during the American Civil War (1861–65), and author who played a pivotal role in the creation of Memorial Day. Logan served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate and was a candidate for vice president. The namesake son of a prominent former slave-owning physician and state legislator, Logan received his early education through tutors and private schools in southern Illinois. He worked as a jockey and raced his father’s Thoroughbreds in several

Identifier: photographichist09mill Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880- Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co. Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: for the Lord.What Captain leads your armiesAlong the rebel coasts?The mighty One of Israel,His name is Lord of Hosts. (horns— To Canaan, to Canaan,The Lord has led us forth.To blow before the heathen wallsThe trumpets of the North. DIXIE The Original Version Dixie was first written as a walk-a-round by an Ohioan,Dan Emmet, and was first sung in Dan Bryants minstrel showon Broadway. New York, shortly before the war. It came intomartial usage by accident and its stirring strains inspired theregiments on many a battlefield. Curiously enough it was adaptedto patriotic words on both sides and remained popular with Northand South alike after the struggle was over. Abraham Lincoln loved the lime and considered the fact that it was truly repre-sentative of the land of cotton far more important than itslack of adherence to the strict laws of technical harmony. Twenty-two versions of the

ca. 1861-65, [ambrotype portrait of a Confederate soldier in an infantry uniform with musket and Bowie knife] via the Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

The Siege of Port Hudson was conducted from May 21 to July 9, 1863, during the Civil War and saw Union troops take the city and open the Mississippi River.

The Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864 resulted in victory for Union Admiral David Farragut and the fall of the key Confederate port on the Gulf of Mexico.

For Memorial Day, we celebrate the names of gallant Civil War generals, from the Latinate Marcellus to the biblical Zebulon to word names like Strong and Speed and Zealous.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president (1861–65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Among American heroes, Lincoln continues to have a unique appeal for his fellow countrymen and also for people of other lands.

John Wilkes Booth, the 26 year-old actor and later assassin of President Lincoln, was photographed many times over the course of his life. The numeration for his photographs is based on the 1979 bo…

U.S. Navy enlisted personnel—unlike those in the other services—wear their jobs on their sleeves. A Marine machine-gunner wears similar collar rank as the rest of his fire team; unless you ask him, or see his military occupation in his file, one could never know his job specifics just by looking at his uniform. Not so in the Navy. The Navy’s complicated enlisted system is based on a sailor’s occupation, or rating. Those range from the enduring—quartermaster, yeoman, boatswain’s mate or hospital corpsman—to the more obscure—religious programs specialist, interior communications electrician or legalman. Each job has its own unique title—such as