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Tag: Union commanders

Meade and Sickles at Gettysburg
Posted inStories

Dan Sickles Insisted that His Gettysburg Antics Saved the Union. Was He Right?

by D. Scott Hartwig 2/26/20241/17/2024

Sickles nearly cost the Union Army at Gettysburg by breaking George Meade’s orders.

ulysses-s-grant
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Grant Didn’t Fit the Eastern Theater Mold—Turns Out That’s Exactly What Lincoln Wanted

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Lincoln and McClellan meet in a tent
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Why Did Lincoln and McClellan Fail to Connect?

by Rick Beard 2/8/20241/30/2024
Captain Samuel DeGolyer
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This Union Officer Escaped a Confederate Prison and Became Grant’s Most Trusted Gunner

by Trace Brusco 1/4/202411/1/2023
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Civil War Hero Milton Littlefield Turned to a Life of Crime

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This Son of Maine Was Much More Than a Civil War Hero

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John Pope Brought a Harder Edge to the Eastern Theater By Taking the War to the Civilian Population 

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‘Soldier of Destiny’: A Detailed View of Grant as an Evolving Soul

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George McClellan
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Mending the McClellan Myth

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