My ProfileKeep Up to Date:
 Blog  Forum |
union
...r efforts against the US the more we would face something like a strong enemy similar to what the Soviet Union has been.
...
Does somebody have numbers on how many people fought against their 'own' side ? Any good sources to look it all up ?
Does anyone know how Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) was announced?
That is, what I am interested in is how (and when) was the announcement made to the Germans and the
...her hand, the only Senator from a state the seceeded that remained at his post in Washington. He was pro-Unionist and said that the slave states should fight for their position from within the Union. ...
...ends'). They, of course, had the T-34. And it hands down takes the award from the invasion of the Soviet Union until the Germans produced a response. In its original configuration, it had a two-man tu...
The War ended in April of 1865. The Union won. It has been 138 years going on 139. If Right did not triumph, then Might did. So be it. Why can't the Neo-Confederates simply accept a fact of history an
...ng a paper for my history class and was trying to compare Grant's prewar experiences with those of other Union commanders. Grant was unsuccessful in civilian life compare to McClellan and it contribut...
...etro stops are named after ACW figures, as pretty much all the squares and circles in DC are named after Union military leaders.
And if you're more interested in the rebels, Richmond is about 1.5 ho...
...nmolested a mile or 2 upsteam (or even probably downstream.) I've been there & the hillside opposite the union side was perfect for a few hundred men to hold off thousands of Yanks. It sould have been...
...ng that happened during the war? The Confederates were in that that location and held off an attack by a Union division....
After the success of the Lightning Brigade, were there any shifts in policy towards arming more Union units with repeaters? Did Stanton ever change his position on repeaters?
I understand Sheridan a
The Gatling Gun was invented in 1861. Why didn't the Union employ this rapid fire gun? Its proper use would have shortened the war.
A similar question for breech loading rifles.
Bob Kolker
Recently, the following link was posted in soc.culture.asian.american about 'Chinese soldiers' in the (American) Civil War
...ans and British (Sanders et al, 61).
These reports and other information suggest Stalin and the Soviet Union were 'crazy' enough to attempt the improbable. Presently, we can only speculate about wha...
...t look at percentages.
ACW - Whole USA - 620,000 out of 32,000,000 population = 2% of population ACW - Union - 360,000 out of 22,000,000 population = 1.3% of population ACW - Rebel - 260,000 out of ...
...he argument that the arrest of Maryland state legislators were the only factor that kept Maryland in the Union. The relevant paragraph from his letter is:
'On April 19, 1861...
...ps the field late in the day after Hill's assaults
Frayser's Farm - late attacks slowly force back the union forces
Manassas - decisive attack is delivered to late to reap the fruits of victory
...
...enemy ship).
It just struck me that the Conferderates had the same kind of Yankee Ingenuity as did the Union folks. Which is ironic.
Bob Kolker...
...st few years that indicate he did in fact die in Berlin.
After the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, apparently some previously regarded 'secret files' of the Soviet government discussed de...
In an effort to place a memorial headstone for a Union Civil War relative with the proper ceremony, a friend is seeking assistance in locating, hopefully, written instructions.
Does anyone have info
Requesting some general info about the Union draft. Could non-citizens or newly arrived immigrants be drafted? How about the bounty system whereby one could pay for someone else to take his
...ry of the 'Great Fairfax Raid' wherein Mosby & a few of his Rangers coolly meander into the heart of the union camp & kidnap a sleeping (not to mention hung over) Brig. Gen. Stoughton & take him back ...
...ops who served in the South during Reconstruction and where they served? I am particularly interested in Union troops who served in or around Vicksburg, Mississippi during Reconstruction.
Thanks,...
...ly a small amount of casualties took place. The battles need to take place in a Southern state...and the Union is the victor. Thanks....
Besides Ft. McPherson at Atlanta is any other Army Post in the former Confederate States named for a Union Civil War general.?
...nks for information and research purposes on the Battle of Harpers Ferry, and Stonewall's capture of the union troops? Am doing detailed research for a possible book, any help would be appreciated....
The accepted wisdom on 'grand strategy' in the Civil War is that the proper target for Union campaigns was the rebel armies, not any territorial location.
I've been thinking about this for a long ti
It is now known that Stalin was a horrible leader of the Soviet Union, killing off millions of his own citizens. He killed off a legion of army leaders as well as many intelligent capable citizens who
...es of Confederation, which promulgated a legally binding, iron-clad and air-tight law of perpetuity, the Union of States under the United States Constitution is a voluntary Union of unspecified durati...
...ion Tidal Wave still classified? Is there an organization of Ploesti survivors and if so, do they have reunions?...
...isher near the Bliss Farm stood up and yelled toward his Northern counterparts, 'Don't fire Yanks'. Some Union soldiers raised their guns but others asked them to wait. The Confederate walked out betw...
... been reading primarily about Confederate generals but were there any such insignia peculiarities on the Union side? Without study it appears they used the more traditional (at least today) approach o...
During the Civil War which U.S. Flag was mostly used by Union forces...name and the number, arrangement of stars?
Union armies were often named after bodies of water, i.e., Army of the Ohio, Army of the Potomac, Army of the Cumberland, and Army of the Tennessee. Southern armies were often named after geographical
...ave been successful. In OTL, Ewell's troops were badly scattered, both by their pursuit of the shattered Union corps and by the streets and buildings of Gettysburg. Their pursuit foundered naturally b...
... air-to-air kills. This is the heart of any airforce, a cadre of elite aces. As for tactics : The Soviet union invented the 'circle of death' . They also invented the 'false ram', where an attacking f...
While this war is the only example of States seceding from the Union, it is important for Libertarians to differentiate between a right of States to secede, on the one hand, and support for the South'
...postage stamps first appeared in 1847, but those issued before 1861 are no longer valid for postage? The Union produced a new issue, and supplied stamps to post offices where the Union could reach, gi...
...s crossing the Suez Canal knocked down the Israeli sandberm using high pressure water hoses.
Could the Union forces have done something similar using pumps on steam powered gunboats, or were the log...
No way. Japan beats the Soviet Union any day of the week. First, the Thought Police (actually Ministry of Home Affairs) had help in the form of lots of army and navy officers who do random killings of
...verage, newspapers and magazines articles listed civilian casualties of people from U.K.; France; Soviet Union; Germany; Italy; etc but nothing on the U.S. which were mostly N/A or -. Any civilian cas...
...over 20 years. I would be glad to share what little photo's and stories I have of Ens.Henry P. Decker of Union NJ Thank you Joe Rella...
...t Leesburg, VA, on September 2, 1862, members of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment attacked and defeated Union troops of Major Henry A. Cole¹s Maryland Cavalry Battalion and Captain Samuel C. Means...
...rmany attacked that country in June 1941? After all, they were members of the Axis. Japan and the Soviet Union certainly did not have good relations at the time, having had several border skirmishes. ...
Why (except to save the architecture) the Union kept Washington as capitol during the CW is a mystery to me. It is south of the Mason-Dixon and adjoining the most dangerous of the CSA states, (Va.) sa
...iege was to break out.
So the Confederates concentrated their forces, attacked the southern end of the Union encirclement, and broke through. Then, thanks to Pillow, they retreated back into the for...
...t and a wing reserve, concentrating his punch in a narrow area. When this force hit in an area where the Union commander (Wood) had just pulled out of alignment, the results were quite spectacular / n...
... close to the Federal capital in Washington, DC that it was making a deliberate extra provocation of the Union (as if secession itself wasn't enough!). Didn't they realize that it would prove to be a ...
Which places in the former Soviet Union do one find the most WWII museums and the like? Volgograd? Skt. Petersburg? Kursk??
...hile the events at Fort Pillow were horrific, as were many engagements during the war, it seems only the Union propagandist interpretation of the event has survived to the present. The Union trumped-u...
|
Latest Hot PhotosLatest Posts
|
Copyright © 2006 - Nov 2008 War History Fans