civil war

[Danzig]

as everyone knows, its the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the civil war.
148 years ago today, the gettysburg battle ended with an astonishing loss of life. at the same time that battle was being fought between lee and meade, grant was succesfully ending the siege of vicksburg in mississippi. they would officially surrender that city to grant on july 4, the same day that meade was victorious at gettysburg, with the finding that lee had left the field and was moving as quickly as possible south. his accomplishing keeping his army intact, and returning across the river into va, is what led to meade losing his command, and grant coming east-against sherman's advice(he said d.c. was an awful place, and would ruin grant).
vicksburg was what 'won' the west for the union, with the closing of the mississippi to all confederate traffic, and dividing the eastern confederacy permanently from the western. the loss of men and supplies from texas and other states did much harm to the southern cause.
meade allowing lee to escape prolonged the war in the east, with lee's surrender essentially finally ending the war two years later.

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by Danzig

as everyone knows, its the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the civil war.
148 years ago today, the gettysburg battle ended with an astonishing loss of life. at the same time that battle was being fought between lee and meade, grant was succesfully ending the siege of vicksburg in mississippi. they would officially surrender that city to grant on july 4, the same day that meade was victorious at gettysburg, with the finding that lee had left the field and was moving as quickly as possible south. his accomplishing keeping his army intact, and returning across the river into va, is what led to meade losing his command, and grant coming east-against sherman's advice(he said d.c. was an awful place, and would ruin grant).
vicksburg was what 'won' the west for the union, with the closing of the mississippi to all confederate traffic, and dividing the eastern confederacy permanently from the western. the loss of men and supplies from texas and other states did much harm to the southern cause.
meade allowing lee to escape prolonged the war in the east, with lee's surrender essentially finally ending the war two years later.

some of us

[bigrun]

The Civil War 150th. From the pages of the Daily Dispatch on today's date in 1862.

That small column has appeared on page 2 of the Richmond paper i think since the first of the year...

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/civil-war/

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by bigrun

The Civil War 150th. From the pages of the Daily Dispatch on today's date in 1862.

That small column has appeared on page 2 of the Richmond paper i think since the first of the year...

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/civil-war/

thanks for posting that.

geez, mclellan.....what a maroon as bugs bunny would say.

[rpncaine]

Make your plans now for the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. I'll most likely be there.

Re-enactments on the battlefield including:

Saturday July 6th - 1 p.m. "Hold the Line" Battle at Little Round Top and Devil's Den

Sunday July 7th - 3:30 p.m. "The High Water Mark" Pickett's Charge

More info at: http://www.gettysburgreenactment.com/150thInfo.htm

[Danzig]

i'd like to make that, but a bit too far away. i'll have to see if vicksburg is holding anything.

[Honu]

My parents own a place on Isle of Palms, S.C. ......Fort Moultry is on the end of the island and you can see Fort Sumter from there, I have been to Moultry alot and it still gives me chicken skins, you can feel the history.

[Riot]

rpncaine, love your avatar, recognized the location immediately.

Here's another famous picture (although the dead body was moved to stage the photo) of where you are standing at base of LRT



I've got a couple of great books showing civil war location images from 1863-64, and what they look like today.

[rpncaine]

Thanks. I had read that to about the photograher moving the body to stage the photo. I love that place, gonna try real hard to get there next year for the on site re-enactments on the anniversary of the battle.

Roger