Add to ORKGDuring the Civil War years East Tennessee became politically and strategically important. It was a section strong in Unionism and natural defenses. Under Confederate control life was difficult for those loyal to the Union, and they pled for liberation. But East Tennessee was difficult to enter because of the mountains which surround it. Far-sighted generals saw that an occupying army would have to surmount the problems or supply. Even when the section was freed from Confederate rule, the civilians were no better off as far as peace and the comforts of life were concerned. The opposing armies, ill-clad and ill-fed, vied for the territory and stripped the land of all food supplies. Nevertheless, a majority of the East Tennesseans remai...
The American Civil War was the bloodiest war fought on American soil. In a single battle at Gettysbu...
War ranged in the mountains during the four years of the American Civil War. Campaigns intended to c...
Photograph of the War in the West.These photographs are of the Siege of Knoxville, November-December...
Often, the American Civil War finds itself painted in classrooms across the country as a conflict of...
By the mid-nineteenth century, East Tennessee had evolved into an unique Southern region. Divergent ...
On April 26, 1865, on a farm just outside Durham, North Carolina, General Joseph E. Johnston surrend...
Telling the Complex Story of Unionism As the Union army surged into Tennessee in the late winter...
East Tennessee, though historically regarded as a Unionist monolith, was politically and ideological...
In Appalachian North Carolina, there has been much debate over sympathies towards the Union or the C...
This project explores the secession crisis in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky during the Civ...
A New Unionist Perspective Frequently overlooked in the history of the Confederacy is the significan...
“If we can take and hold Chattanooga and East Tennessee, I think the Rebellion must dwindle and die....
During the four years of the Civil War, the border between eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virgini...
Political Partisans Ordering a Conquered ProvinceThe scene is all too familiar. In the aftermath of...
During the secession crisis, intertwined geographic, economic, political, and ideological factors di...
The American Civil War was the bloodiest war fought on American soil. In a single battle at Gettysbu...
War ranged in the mountains during the four years of the American Civil War. Campaigns intended to c...
Photograph of the War in the West.These photographs are of the Siege of Knoxville, November-December...
Often, the American Civil War finds itself painted in classrooms across the country as a conflict of...
By the mid-nineteenth century, East Tennessee had evolved into an unique Southern region. Divergent ...
On April 26, 1865, on a farm just outside Durham, North Carolina, General Joseph E. Johnston surrend...
Telling the Complex Story of Unionism As the Union army surged into Tennessee in the late winter...
East Tennessee, though historically regarded as a Unionist monolith, was politically and ideological...
In Appalachian North Carolina, there has been much debate over sympathies towards the Union or the C...
This project explores the secession crisis in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky during the Civ...
A New Unionist Perspective Frequently overlooked in the history of the Confederacy is the significan...
“If we can take and hold Chattanooga and East Tennessee, I think the Rebellion must dwindle and die....
During the four years of the Civil War, the border between eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virgini...
Political Partisans Ordering a Conquered ProvinceThe scene is all too familiar. In the aftermath of...
During the secession crisis, intertwined geographic, economic, political, and ideological factors di...
The American Civil War was the bloodiest war fought on American soil. In a single battle at Gettysbu...
War ranged in the mountains during the four years of the American Civil War. Campaigns intended to c...
Photograph of the War in the West.These photographs are of the Siege of Knoxville, November-December...