Archives for June 2018

The USS Monitor Appears

Much had been heard of this vessel, and a great deal had been promised for her by her builder, but when she came into the Roads everybody was

This series has three easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: The Merrimac Attacks the Wooden Ships.IntroductionThis is the first

This installment concludes our series Battle of Gettysburg,Today is our final installment from Edward A. Pollard and then we begin the third part of

At night the Confederate army held the same position from which it had driven the enemy two days previous.Continuing Battle of Gettysburg,with a

This is the first recorded passage of white men through the Strait of Detroit; though Joliet had, no doubt, passed this way on his return from the

But there was now to occur a scene of moral sublimity and heroism unequalled in the war.Continuing Battle of Gettysburg,with a selection from The

The contest here was intensely exciting and terrible. The gloom of the falling night was lighted up by the ﬂashes of the enemy’s guns.Continuing

There should not be lost from the records of the individual heroism of the Confederacy an incident of this battle.Continuing Battle of

July 1, 10 am 3 miles west of Gettysburg units of the Union army first encountered.Continuing Battle of Gettysburg,Today is our final installment