Category Archives: March

March ’65

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Civil War-Civil Rights

1865 The once-vaunted Confederate military, winnowed to dribs and drabs, now fell to pieces. On the month’s third day, at Waynesborough, Va., a unit of Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer routed and destroyed most of the surviving … Continue reading →

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March ’64

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Civil War-Civil Rights

1864 On an evening in the first week of March, the desk clerk of Willard’s Hotel in Washington, D.C. was overwhelmed with business. He hurriedly informed the pair standing before him, a short and nondescript soldier and a 13-year-old boy, … Continue reading →

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March ’63

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Civil War-Civil Rights

1863 Once again, the Federal Army of the Potomac was starting over. Its new third commander, “Fighting Joe” Hooker, began again to do what George McClellan and Ambrose Burnside had done before him:  prepare for battle against Confederate General Robert … Continue reading →

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March ’62

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Civil War-Civil Rights
Senator Charles Sumner

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1862 Neither contending government exhibited pride in the root of their war. Southerners shrank from broaching the topic of slavery around non-slaveholders, and Northerners were similarly reluctant among slaveholding unionists. Each had two more reasons on the other side of … Continue reading →

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