with a focus on the role played by artillery in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. Lawrence Kaplan talked about the strategies employed by the Union Army’s field ...

1860. The woods and open fields where the battle was contested at Chancellorsville, c. 1860. Library of Congress After a Union Debacle at the battle of Fredericksburg, the South was poised for ...

Douglass Fowler of Norwalk had already served two tours as a Union soldier when ... requiring an ambulance to carry him into battle at Chancellorsville, Va. Described as a “true soldier ...

Carthaginians vs. Romans at Cannae. English vs. French at Agincourt. Confederacy vs. Union at Chancellorsville. In Outnumbered, author Cormac O'Brien details 14 David-and-Goliath battles in which ...

Besides his final battle at Gettysburg, Cushing served in critical engagements at Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville ... Union infantry lines, they surged forward toward the 4th Artillery.

He had bagged Harpers Ferry and withstood withering Union attacks at the Battle of Antietam in September. And he helped with the rebel victory at Fredericksburg in December. At Chancellorsville ...