It is May, 1861, William Henry Tebbs and Vannoy (Van) Hartrog Manning team up to form what will be known as, 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment. Tebbs based his company out of Bayou Bartholomew. Manning, out of Hamburg. Both Captains of their company’s (A and K) located in Ashley County, Arkansas. Tebbs, and Manning recruited soldiers from surrounding areas and formed two companies. (2)
Manning, a lawyer and Tebbs, a doctor, ventured to Vicksburg, Mississippi optimistic to join the, Confederates States of America Army. They contacted The Confederate Secretary of War, LeRoy Pope Walker, who denied the two companies desire to support the confederacy. The two companies were not deemed worthy of joining the Confederate Army. Walker’s denial of the two companies lead Manning to solicited help from an Arkansas Senator, Albert Rust who was stationed in Montgomery. The only way they were able to become part of the war was if they could form a whole regiment. Rust recruited enough men for nine more company’s, which formed an eleven-company regiment. Companies A-I, K, and L. The regiment also had a band. (3)
July 5, 1861, Albert Rust was appointed Colonel of the Army. Van Manning was enrolled as captain (Company K), later promoted to Major in the same month. The 3rd Arkansas regiment comprised of around 1,100-1,200 men. Not all companies contained Arkansas men. Company H contained thirty members from Kentucky. The regiment deployed to Lynchburg Virginia and was enrolled in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. The 3rd Arkansas would be the first group of “regulars” mustered into the service. They were one of the first company’s denied and one of the first regiments enlisted in the war (1)
September 12th 1861 the regiment saw its first sign of action...
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(12) Report of Brig. Gen. J.B. Robertson, C.S. Army, commanding brigade June 3-August 1, 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign. Official Records Series I, Volume 27
To the south stands Cemetery Hill, Culp’s Hill, both less than a mile from town. They are part of a larger ridge that ends about 3 miles from town ending in Little Round Top and Big Round Top. On the 1st of July, the Confederate Forces occupied one mile east of the eastern ridge where they set up their artillery while the Union Forces occupied the southern hilltops and the eastern hilltops where naturally, they placed their artillery. Confederate and Union Forces met at around 0730 as Confederate General Heth advanced on Union General John Buford and the defensive line of the Union Army along the eastern ridgeline . The two Armies were both surprised with the situation they found themselves in because before their meeting, they knew little of each others capabilities and had, for quite sometime, been traveling blind yet parallel to each other
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Training began for Black volunteers at Camp Meigs in Readville, MA on February 21, 1863. Although some members of the community voiced opposition to the prevention of Black men from achieving the rank of colonel or officer, most community activists urged Black men to seize the opportunity to serve in the Union forces. The fear many Black volunteers had about the potential racism of White officers and colonels was calmed when Massachusetts Governor John Andrew assured Bostonians that White officers assigned to the 54th Regiment would be "young men of military experience, of firm anti-slavery principles, ambitious, superior to a vulgar contempt for color, and having faith in the capacity of colored men for military service." (Emilio 1990) Andrew held to his word, appointing 25-year-old Robert Gould Shaw as colonel and George P. Hallowell as Lieutenant. The son of wealthy abolitionists, Shaw had been educated in Europe and at Harvard before joining the seventh New York National Guard in 1861. In 1862, when Governor Andrew contacted Shaw's father about the prospect of commissioning his son as colonel of the soon-to-be organized fifty-fourth, Shaw was an officer in the Second Mass...
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Shaara’s novel Killer Angels shows the battle of Gettysburg through a number of unique viewpoints. Shaara offers a more intimate view of the battle than other Civil War novels. A reader can see the battle through the eyes of both Union and Confederate leaders. Through the novel the reader is able to see why each character is fighting and what they hope to gain from the war. Readers can also see the effect that the war has on the different characters. I will examine the war through the eyes of several different characters from Shaara’s novel.
The Battle of Pea Ridge, otherwise known as the battle of Elkhorn Tavern was fought several miles out from Pea Ridge Arkansas, a "broad table land", in an area around Elkhorn Tavern and Tanyard. The Battle spanned from the night of March 6 to the afternoon of March 8 in 1862. The commanding officers for the Confederate side in this battle were Major General Earl Van Dorn and Brigadier General Albert Pike. For the Federal's side there were Major General Samuel R. Curtis and Brigadier General Franz Sigel (Battle).
The book opens with a Confederate spy as he made his way through the Union lines on the night of June 29, 1863 toward Confederate General Robert E. Lee bearing news of the Army of the Potomac as they crossed paths in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The days after follow the various Union and Confederate regiments as they regained their wits about them after the previous Battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Marching onward toward Gettysburg, where the most deciding battle of the Civil War would take place.
The Battle of Gettysburg lead by Robert E. Lee was a three-day battle and was an immense turning point in the war for the Confederate army. Lee had designed brilliant plans for battle, but they were not always fully thought out and executed. Furthermore at Gettysburg Lee’s battle plans seemed to be a big guess or gamble and not really certain at all. Having well thought out
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On Tuesday morning, June 30, an infantry brigade of Confederate soldiers searching for shoes headed toward Gettysburg (The Hi...
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For example, the Smith-Cotton JROTC Tiger Battalion has risen up to become one of the best battalions in the state of Missouri. Established in 2004, Smith Cotton began to prepare for a long journey of struggles and efforts to become better and learn from the mistakes made in past. From the D.U.I, to the JROTC shoulder sleeve insignia, to the instructors, the Smith Cotton JROTC Tiger Battalion has woven into the history of JROTC, and is honored with tremendous respect.
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Beardsley, Frank. "American History: The American Civil War: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (VOA Special English 2005-04-20)." Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Fun English Study). Www.manythings.org. Web. 12 June 2011. .