Today the three-day Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina draws to a close with yet another Union victory by Sherman‘s army. The Union victory comes as no surprise, as the Confederates are outnumbered 3-to-1 during the fighting. Any loss of soldiers is devastating to the Confederacy at this late date in the war. Over 10% of…
The Union’s squeeze of the Confederacy is felt throughout the South. Charleston, the ideological center of the Confederate States, has now been under siege for some 430 days, with cannon balls raining upon the city almost daily. In Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee remains trapped in the trenches, his forces growing thinner almost by…
The Union Navy, in an effort to close Alabama’s Mobile Bay to blockade runners, on August 3 landed 1,500 troops on Dauphin Island and began a siege of Fort Gaines. Confederate defenders have been trying to hold off the Union forces in order to allow time for reinforcements to arrive. Today, however, the Union Navy…