hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
Vicksburg (Mississippi, United States) 409 3 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant 397 3 Browse Search
Robert E. Lee 352 10 Browse Search
W. T. Sherman 276 6 Browse Search
Braxton Bragg 240 6 Browse Search
Joseph Hooker 234 4 Browse Search
William S. Rosecrans 226 2 Browse Search
John Pope 206 6 Browse Search
James Longstreet 181 5 Browse Search
Port Hudson (Louisiana, United States) 179 5 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller). Search the whole document.

Found 407 total hits in 86 results.

1 2 3 4 5 6 ...
Shiloh, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
ack whence it came, to add in driblets to Pope's effective.--Colonel Theodore A. Dodge, U. S.A., in A Bird's-eye view of the Civil War. General George B. Mcclellan, with all his popularity at the beginning, had failed in his Peninsula campaign to fulfil the expectations of the great impatient public of the North. At the same time, while the Army of the Potomac had as yet won no great victories, the men of the West could triumphantly exhibit the trophies won at Donelson, at Pea Ridge, at Shiloh, and at Island No.10. The North thereupon came to believe that the Western leaders were more able than those of the East. This belief was shared by the President and his Secretary of War and it led to the determination to call on the West for help. The first to be called was General John Pope, who had won national fame by capturing New Madrid and Island No.10 on the Mississippi River. In answer to a telegram from Secretary Stanton, Pope came to Washington in June, 1862. The secretary
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
Washington. A new army, in fact, was created to make the campaign which Lincoln had originally wanted McClellan to carry out. The command was given to General John Pope, whose capture of Island No.10 in the Mississippi had brought him into national importance. The corps of Banks, Fremont, and McDowell were consolidated to form this new army, called the Army of Virginia. General Fremont refused to serve under his junior, and his force was given to Franz Sigel, who had won fame in 1861 in Missouri. This picture was taken about two weeks after the reorganization was completed. The soldiers are those of McDowell's Corps. They are on the old battlefield of Bull Run, enjoying the leisure of Camp life, for no definite plans for the campaign have yet been formed. Where Jackson struck Cedar Mountain, Viewed from Pope's Headquarters. On the side of this mountain Jackson established the right of his battle line, when he discovered at noon of August 9th that he was in contact with a
Island Number Ten (Missouri, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
atch big stories. John Pope was the leader whose swift success in capturing New Madrid and Island Number10 in the Mississippi campaign formed a brilliant contrast, in the popular mind, to the failurWest could triumphantly exhibit the trophies won at Donelson, at Pea Ridge, at Shiloh, and at Island No.10. The North thereupon came to believe that the Western leaders were more able than those of trst to be called was General John Pope, who had won national fame by capturing New Madrid and Island No.10 on the Mississippi River. In answer to a telegram from Secretary Stanton, Pope came to Washiy wanted McClellan to carry out. The command was given to General John Pope, whose capture of Island No.10 in the Mississippi had brought him into national importance. The corps of Banks, Fremont, aneper Court House as the rallying point. Pope soon found that the capturing of New Madrid and Island No.10 was easy in comparison with measuring swords with the Confederate generals in the East. On
Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
the three corps commanders was his senior in rank and that his being placed at their head would A breathing spell Federal Encampment at Blackburn's Ford on Bull Run, July 4, 1862. When McClellan went to the Peninsula in March of 1862 he had expected all of McDowell's Corps to be sent him as reenforcement before he made the This picture was taken about two weeks after the reorganization was completed. The soldiers are those of McDowell's Corps. They are on the old battlefield of Bull Run, enjoying the leisure of Camp life, for no definite plans for the campaign have yet been formed. Where Jackson struck Cedar Mountain, Viewed from Pope's Heirginia Negroes following Pope's soldiers in their retreat from Cedar Mountain. From the beginning of the war Negroes had been a subject of debate. Even before Bull Run, on May 26, 1861, General B. F. Butler had declared that all fugitive slaves would be considered as contraband of war. Congress, however, decided in August that
Hudson, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
Cedar Mountain — Pope's advance is checked Pickets on reserve — across this wheatfield the Union charge was swept back by Stonewall Jackson Where the commander heard the cannonading: Pope's headquarters during the battle of Cedar Mountain The Hudson farmhouse, with its mossy shingles, vines, and aged locust trees, suggests anything but the storm-center of a nation at war. Yet it was here that General John Pope set up his headquarters while his eight thousand trained soldiers under General Banks sped toward Gordonsville, to strike the first blow of what the new general had promised would be a series of victories. As this picture was taken, the New York Herald wagon stands plainly in view to the left of the porch; the newspaper correspondents prepared to despatch big stories. John Pope was the leader whose swift success in capturing New Madrid and Island Number10 in the Mississippi campaign formed a brilliant contrast, in the popular mind, to the failure of the Easte
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
ant tactics had turned McClellan's Peninsula Campaign into a fiasco, the Confederate Government resolved to again take the offensive. Plans were formed for a general invasion of the North, the objective points ranging from Cincinnati eastward to the Federal capital and Philadelphia. Immediately after Washington got wind of this, Lincoln (on August 4th) issued a call for three hundred thousand men; and all haste was made to rush the forces of McClellan from the Peninsula and of Cox from West Virginia to the aid of the recently consolidated army under Pope. On August 9, 1862, the vanguards of Stonewall Jackson's army and of Pope's intercepting forces met at Cedar Mountain. Banks, with the Second Corps of the Federal army, about eight thousand strong, attacked Jackson's forces of some sixteen thousand. The charge was so furious that Jackson's left flank was broken and rolled up, the rear of the center fired upon, and the whole line thereby thrown into confusion. Banks, however, rec
Slaughter Mountain (Virginia, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
the 9th Jackson finally got his troops over the Rapidan and the Robertson rivers. Two miles beyond the latter stream there rose from the plain the slope of Slaughter Mountain, whose ominous name is more often changed into Cedar. This mountain is an isolated foothill of the Blue Ridge, some twenty miles from the parent range, andd, wounded and missing. The battle had accomplished nothing. Battlefield of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862. Cedar Mountain: casualty. On the banks of Cedar Run, seven miles south of Culpeper and but one or two north of the mountain, Banks's cavalry were waiting to oppose Jackson's advance. Learning of this the latter t for the timely aid of another brigade and still another that rushed down the hill and opened fire on the Federal lines which extended along the eastern bank of Cedar Run. Meanwhile the Union batteries had been wheeled into position and their deep roar answered that of the foe on the hill. For two or three hours the battle con
Donelson (Indiana, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
is dismembered and sent back whence it came, to add in driblets to Pope's effective.--Colonel Theodore A. Dodge, U. S.A., in A Bird's-eye view of the Civil War. General George B. Mcclellan, with all his popularity at the beginning, had failed in his Peninsula campaign to fulfil the expectations of the great impatient public of the North. At the same time, while the Army of the Potomac had as yet won no great victories, the men of the West could triumphantly exhibit the trophies won at Donelson, at Pea Ridge, at Shiloh, and at Island No.10. The North thereupon came to believe that the Western leaders were more able than those of the East. This belief was shared by the President and his Secretary of War and it led to the determination to call on the West for help. The first to be called was General John Pope, who had won national fame by capturing New Madrid and Island No.10 on the Mississippi River. In answer to a telegram from Secretary Stanton, Pope came to Washington in J
United States (United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
nt of Lee's assault, while the Army of the Potomac is dismembered and sent back whence it came, to add in driblets to Pope's effective.--Colonel Theodore A. Dodge, U. S.A., in A Bird's-eye view of the Civil War. General George B. Mcclellan, with all his popularity at the beginning, had failed in his Peninsula campaign to fulfilslaves would be considered as contraband of war. Congress, however, decided in August that all slaves confiscated should be held subject to the decision of the United States courts. In April of 1862, General Hunter, at Hilton Head, South Carolina, declared that all slaves in his military department were forever free, but a week lation Proclamation was issued, and on January 1, 1863, the final proclamation was made that Negroes would be received into the military and naval service of the United States Corps. This picture was taken about the time Greeley's letter was published — less than two weeks after the battle of Cedar Mountain had been fought. and h
Cincinnati (Ohio, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
the most severe little battles of the war took place. The first clash: Cedar Mountain. Battlefield of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862. Here the Confederate army in its second advance on Washington first felt out the strength massed against it. After Lee's brilliant tactics had turned McClellan's Peninsula Campaign into a fiasco, the Confederate Government resolved to again take the offensive. Plans were formed for a general invasion of the North, the objective points ranging from Cincinnati eastward to the Federal capital and Philadelphia. Immediately after Washington got wind of this, Lincoln (on August 4th) issued a call for three hundred thousand men; and all haste was made to rush the forces of McClellan from the Peninsula and of Cox from West Virginia to the aid of the recently consolidated army under Pope. On August 9, 1862, the vanguards of Stonewall Jackson's army and of Pope's intercepting forces met at Cedar Mountain. Banks, with the Second Corps of the Federal a
1 2 3 4 5 6 ...