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The Mississippi Marine Brigade – Introduction Guerilla and partisan warfare played a significant role in the Civil War. While much of this type of conflict was between the Union and Confederate sympathizers of the Border States there was also a concentrated effort made against standard Union military operations in areas controlled by Federal forces as […]
Mississippi Marine Brigade-Intro
February 28th, 2014 · No Comments
Categories: Mississippi Marine Brigade (Campaign Series)
Tags: · 13th Indiana, 1st DC Cavalry, 36th ohio, counter-guerrilla operations, george crook, George Kirk, gillems cossacks, mississippi marine brigade
Last Shots of the War
September 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments
One of our local columnists, Rob Neufeld, pens a short item on the last shots of the war, which were supposedly fired right here in Western NC. What caught my eye is that they were fired by sharpshooters under the command of Lt. Robert Conley of Company F, Thomas Legion on May 6, 1865. On […]
Categories: Civil War Individuals · Civil War Memory · Civil War News · Eastern Theater · Military History
Tags: · George Kirk, Lt. Robert Conley, north carolina, sharpshooters
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