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AP Photo Union troops charge across the Burnside bridge over Antietam Creek in the third and final day of the Battle of ...

Lincoln's call for volunteers was, of course, not enough, and Congress would enact legislation to address the Union Army's needs. The Militia Act of 1862 gave individual states the power to ...

Pp. xvi, 380. Illus., maps, appends., notes, biblio. $34.95. ISBN: 1611215773 The Union XII Corps in the Summer of '62 Bryan offers an account of the role of the Union's XII Army Corps during the ...

Generals George McClellan vs. Robert E. Lee, the Union’s Army of the Potomac vs. the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, ...

Among the weathered and once-cracked headstones in Michigan’s historic Brighton Village Cemetery, the dual grave markers for ...

7, 1862. Helena is to be the ... ring with cheers for Old ABE and the Union. Gen. FREDERICK STEELE, one of your own men, now in command of the army -- CURTIS being absent on business connected ...

more harm would be done to the Union cause by the expulsion of correspondents, than these correspondents now do by occasional exposures of military blunders, imbecilities, peculations, corruptions ...

In the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862 ... Union volunteers would most likely be executed as spies since they were wearing civilian clothes. (Harriet Tubman the Spy: How Tubman helped the Union army.) ...

Lincoln upheld the laws barring blacks from the army, proving to northern ... insist that this was a war to save the Union, not to free slaves. But by 1862, Lincoln was considering emancipation ...

In short, the Seven Core Army Values listed below are what being a Soldier is all about. Bear true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit and other Soldiers.