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Sallie                                                                                    The 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Monument Sallie Ann Jarrett The 11th Pennsylvania Infantry_Regiment The War Dog The Smallest Recruit The 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Monument's distance from the National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: 39.9 miles. Please follow us on Facebook at  American History Travels

  This personal bible was carried into the Battle of Antietam, Maryland on September 17, 1862 by Private Adam W. Troutman.  The undated bible was printed by Cowan and Company, Edinburgh, Scotland. Very little is known about the bible or the ball lodged inside.  The Troutman family appears in the 1850 census as residing in Iredell County, North Carolina. Adam is listed on line #16.        Adam W. Troutman enlisted in the 48th North Carolina Volunteer Infantry on March 10, 1862 and he is mustered into Confederate service on April 17, 1862.                                                         His military record shows he was wounded at Sharpsburg (Antietam). He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on July 18, 1863 and then 1st Lieutenant on November 17, 1863.  While his regiment is assigned to duty in the trenches o...

Marines battle Seminole Indians in the Florida War--1835-1842. " — Department of Defense, U.S. Marine Corps                                                                                                                                                                                             The battlefield remains a protected natural area.               This 300 year old oak tree dubbed the "Tree of Tears", sits atop a burial mound, and may have been the place where wounded Seminole...

Painting by Jean Hyacinthe de Laclotte (1766 - 1829), a member of the Louisiana Militia who participated in the battle; painted after the victory based on his sketches made at the scene. United States Military Academy Department of History American Battlefield Trust The Battle of New Orleans Battle of New Orleans ABT Battle in 4 Minutes Jean Lafitte Please follow us on Facebook at  American History Travels

Major James Longstreet wrote this letter to his uncle, most likely to Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, on April 25, 1861. He explains, at Albquerque, he has "succeeded in arranging all his business to the entire satisfaction of everybody and is quite ready to leave this government." He states "a new officer will be there to relieve him and he shall then [have] no further transactions with this government." He finishes by stating he "must go by this opportunity as there is no certainty of my having another this year." Major Longstreet resigned from the United States Army on June 1, 1861. He accepted the appointment as a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army on June 25, 1861 and sent to Manassas Junction, Virginia.  James Longstreet Read Longstreet's From Manassas to Appomattax: memoirs of the Civil War in America Longstreet's military career...broken up into many 8-9 minute segments Civil War Resignations in the National Archives This America...

                                             Original caption: The Indians and Negroes Massacreing the Whites in Florida, in January 1836.  Very little information has been obtained about this depiction except that it appears within several resources connected to William Cooley and The New River Massacre.                                                                   The approximate location of the Cooley homestead along the New River.  Marker in the Sailboat Bend                                                                    ...