Rev. David G. Young, born in New York in 1829 and orphaned as a young boy, today enlists in Company D, Eighty-first Regiment Illinois Infantry. During his service he spends time in Confederate prisons and falls victim to yellow fever. Yet he survives the war, in the post-war era serving for a number of years…
Today the Confederacy temporarily reverses Southern misfortunes on the Mississippi River, as the ironclad CSS Arkansas engages Union naval forces and damages some 19 ships before retreating. The days of the Arkansas are limited, however. Pursued by the Union ironclad Essex, the Southern vessel experiences mechanical trouble and runs aground. The crew blows up the…
Green Clay Smith (1826-1895), born in Richmond, Kentucky and a lawyer by profession, is an officer in the United States Army. In May, Smith helped rout Confederate forces commanded by John Hunt Morgan at Lebanon, Tennessee. Formerly a colonel, today he is appointed as brigadier general of the Fourth Regiment of the Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry.…