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CSA: Pictures of the War

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He Lost a War and Won Immortality

"Abandon your animosities," Lee said, "and make your sons Americans."

General Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House 1865

After the Confederate armies surrendered, individual soldiers received paroles allowing them to go home if they promised not to fight. This example was issued at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, to Private Aaron Geiger of Company G of the 10th Florida Infantry and was signed by his commanding officer.

Swamps near the Appomattox River, Va

Confederate Rebel Robert E Lee Headquarters

Battle Of Fort Sumter

The USS Monitor & The CSS Merrimack, Virginia, 1862

A View of Fredericksburg, Va

Battlefield of Fredericksburg

House at Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, Virginia 12-12-1862

Wounded soldiers under trees, Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg After the battle of Spotsylvania, 1864

Burying Confederate dead, Fredericksburg

Wounded soldiers in hospital

Ringgold Battery

After the battle of Missionary Ridge, Gen. Bragg´s Confederate Army retreated through the Ringgold Gap in disorder towards Dalton, GA. Brig. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne was ordered to take position in the gap east of Ringgold and to hold back the Federals and save the Confederate trains and artillery from capture. Even though outnumbered 3 to 1, Gen. Cleburne successes in delaying Gen. Hooker long enough for the Confederate forces to reach safety. Exercising his only independent command, Cleburne utilized the terrain and his well-trained troops, to hold up Federals pursuit for five precious hours. The trains and artillery were saved. By Joint Resolution, the Confederate Congress thanked Cleburne for his achievement.

Repairing the railroad, Cattletts Station, on O and A RR

Catlett's Station on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad saw much activity during the Civil War and was mentioned in many dispatches. General J.E.B. Stuart raided a Federal supply depot here on August 22, 1862 in the opening phases of the Second Manassas Campaign. In May 1863, Colonel Mosby staged two raids along the rail lines around Catlett. The first was on May 3 at Warrenton Junction to the southwest where the Warrenton Spur connects to the main line. Weeks later on May 29, Mosby returned and destroyed a train to the northeast of the station, and was pursued to the north by Federal cavalry detachments.

Camp site

Soldiers in camp

Infantry company at Parade Rest: Parade rest is defined as a position of rest for soldiers, in which they are required to be silent and motionless.

Atlanta CSA Fort 1864

Bridge across the Cumberland at Chattanooga

Bridge across the Eastern Branch, Washington, DC, 1862

Battery at rest

Battery on drill inside of Fort

Battery (squad) on drill

1865 City Point, Virginia (vicinity)

Ruins of Richmond, Va, 1865

Ruins of railroad bridge near Richmond, Va, 1865 Mayo's stone RR bridge 

Battle Of Peebles Farm/Battle of Poplar Springs Church: In an attempt to cut the last rail line into Petersburg, Virginia, Union troops attack the Confederate defense around the besieged city on this day in 1864. Although initially successful, the attack ground to a halt when Confederate reinforcements were rushed into place from other sections of the Petersburg line. The Southside Railroad, the object of the attack, was still in Confederate hands, and the armies settled back into their trenches.

Fort McAllister in GA

Fort McAllister 1864

Fort McAllister

Confederate Cavalry

Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. The next day saw even heavier fighting, as the Confederates attacked the Federals on both left and right. On July 3, Lee ordered an attack by fewer than 15,000 troops on the enemy’s center at Cemetery Ridge. The assault, known as “Pickett’s Charge,” managed to pierce the Union lines but eventually failed, at the cost of thousands of rebel casualties, and Lee was forced to withdraw his battered army toward Virginia on July 4. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought ferociously and courageously by over 160,000 men over three days, July 1-3 1863, in and around the small rural town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The logistics and strategies of the battle are well documented. Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fought the Union's Army of the Potomac, led by Major General George G. Meade. Lee's Army made significant progress and gained a good deal of ground during the first two days of battle, yet a Confederate strategy on the third day, known as "Pickett's Charge," was repulsed and the Union forced the Confederates to retreat. The result was a massive Union victory, foiling General Lee's attempted invasion of the north. Casualty estimates range upward of 51,000, including over 7,000 fatalities, with more dying from wounds and infections in the months ahead.There are grisly stories of the aftermath. The citizens of Gettysburg suffered, too. Thousands of bodies required burial and tens of thousands of injured needed medical treatment. Makeshift hospitals overtook the town. Camp Letterman General Hospital was established east of Gettysburg a few weeks after the battle. It consisted of hundreds of tents and support services. It was winter before the last soldier departed.It took a week to bury the dead and most were in shallow graves, hastily dug to avoid epidemics. Many Confederates were reinterred years later in southern states, while the Union dead were ultimately reburied in a location set aside a few months after the battle as the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. It was there, on November 19, 1863, that Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. It was two minutes long and less than 300 words, dedicated to "those who here gave their lives" so that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Atlanta after Shermans raid 1865

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Surgeons of Harewood Hospital, Washington, DC

Union Bvt Maj Gen Thomas H Neill and staff

Union Camp and quartermasters stores at Stonemans Station, Va Quartermaster's quarters

'Grey Jacket' War Song

'Evelyna' War song

The Black Confederate Soldier

The Black Confederate Soldier has been for the most part ignored by Yankee Historians, modern day political correctness has resulted in a willful ignorance as to the sense of duty, honor, faith and patriotism of these brave soldiers. It is not possible that I could do them justice, in posting this one small article that will be for others, but for now, consider these unsung heroes of the Confederacy and the sacrifice they made for the Cause.