As the war grinds ever on, soldier desertions increasingly become a problem for the Confederate Army. Reasons for desertion include, among others, disillusionment among common men who believe they are fighting on behalf of large slave owners; homesickness; pressure from wives and other family members who are suffering on the Southern home front; and lack…
While an increasing number of soldiers are dying on battlefields, wounds and sickness in general are more common threats in the daily lives of the warriors of the North and South. Today, Jacob John Tanner, born October 27, 1841 in Siblingen, Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and now fighting on behalf of the United States, is stricken…
Today is the best day of the war thus far for the United States of America, as General Ulysses S. Grant captures the Confederate’s Fort Donelson on Tennessee’s Cumberland River, following a four day campaign. After the capture of Fort Henry, ten miles to the west and ten days earlier, Grant’s army had marched to…