Collarspace Discussion Forums


Home  Login  Search 

Civil war query


View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
 
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> Civil war query Page: [1]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
Civil war query - 4/1/2006 1:29:19 AM   
PAVANE


Posts: 118
Joined: 1/3/2005
Status: offline 		Hi this is a question for all you civil war buffs out there (or anyone who happens to be in the buff perhaps). I live in the UK and happened to pick u a copy of National Geographic april 2005. Theres a very good map of the civil war in it.
Anyway they have all the battles marked up and theres one in Maryland east of a town called Salisbury. This seems to be miles away from the usual theatre of war. Can anyone tell me anything about the battle?
Profile   Post #: 1
RE: Civil war query - 4/1/2006 1:53:35 AM   
Angeni


Posts: 88
Joined: 3/11/2006
Status: offline 		Greetings :)
 
There were 7 battles that were fought in Maryland during the Civil War. Here is a very good link with information on each of them
http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/bystate.htm 

Here, also is another link showing the battles themselves as shown on maps
http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/MDmap.htm
 
I hope this helps.

(in reply to PAVANE)
Profile   Post #: 2
RE: Civil war query - 4/1/2006 9:03:42 AM   
Evanesce


Posts: 2325
Joined: 9/14/2005
Status: offline 		Master is a former Civil War reenactor, and actually participated in the reenactment of the battle of Antietam a few years ago.  I'll ask Him what He knows about Salisbury.

_____________________________

Denise

Give a slave what he truly needs, and he will do what you want.

"There's never a hero in a battle of ego." - Big & Rich


(in reply to PAVANE)
Profile   Post #: 3
RE: Civil war query - 4/1/2006 9:26:21 AM   
BrutalAntipathy


Posts: 412
Joined: 7/8/2005
Status: offline 		I have no idea about Maine, but Salsibury North Carolina was a notorious Confederate prison and housed a Confederate arsenal. After the Union soldiers routed the rebels, they looted the town, destroyed the munitions, and set out to destroy the railroad bridge over the Yadkin river. This bridge, about 6 miles east of Salisbury, was a vital supply route to the Confederate forces. Despite the use of artillery, the Union army was not able to defeat the Confederate forces guarding the bridge due to the Confederate's superior position and fortifications. The battle of Yadkin River was the last Confederate victory in N.C.
 
Is it possible that you had your states confused?

(in reply to Evanesce)
Profile   Post #: 4
RE: Civil war query - 4/1/2006 11:59:33 AM   
PAVANE


Posts: 118
Joined: 1/3/2005
Status: offline 		hi
its maryland not maine. the battle is marked as being about halfway between salisbury and the coast east of it.

(in reply to BrutalAntipathy)
Profile   Post #: 5
RE: Civil war query - 4/2/2006 7:45:20 AM   
PAVANE


Posts: 118
Joined: 1/3/2005
Status: offline 		dear angeni
thanks  for the very very interesting site. i have saved it and will enjoy look around it and its links. unfortunately the battle i am looking for is not mentioned.
mick (pavane) xxx

(in reply to Angeni)
Profile   Post #: 6
RE: Civil war query - 4/2/2006 7:46:22 AM   
PAVANE


Posts: 118
Joined: 1/3/2005
Status: offline 		thankyou i would appreciate that. as despite the replies so far i still havent found anything about it.

(in reply to Evanesce)
Profile   Post #: 7
RE: Civil war query - 4/2/2006 10:53:50 AM   
LaMalinche


Posts: 2077
Joined: 10/20/2005
Status: offline 		Hi all,

Hate to be pedantic. . . but the American Civil War was not a civil war. . . it was a war over southern secession. . .  the south did not want to take over the government, they wanted to leave the Union.  Minor point.

The infamous Confederate prison was Andersonville.

When did the battle happen?  Could it be related to the march on D.C.?

Best,

LaMalinche


(in reply to PAVANE)
Profile   Post #: 8
RE: Civil war query - 4/2/2006 11:50:12 AM   
PAVANE


Posts: 118
Joined: 1/3/2005
Status: offline 		theres no date on the map and no its miles away from washington. as i said it  miles away from the eastern theatre of war. to get there the rebs would have had to  march around washington and them south to the bit of maryland between chesapeake bay and the atlantic. or land by sea.
so nothing to do with earlys 1864 attempt to discract grant from richmond.

(in reply to LaMalinche)
Profile   Post #: 9
RE: Civil war query - 4/3/2006 7:35:04 AM   
caitlyn


Posts: 3473
Joined: 12/22/2004
Status: offline 		Hello Pavane ...

If the battle was east of Salisbury, it would have been in Delaware, because at the time of the ACW, Salisbury was right on the border of Maryland and Delaware.

Now, there are no battles listed for Salisbury, or anywhere in Delaware, but in the very early days of the war, there was a large pro-southern militia assembled in Delaware, led by members of the powerful DuPont family.

That's about all I can come up with.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/33dny/DECWHist.htm

(in reply to PAVANE)
Profile   Post #: 10
RE: Civil war query - 4/3/2006 8:01:07 AM   
Mercnbeth


Posts: 11766
Status: offline 		the inhabitants of the islands east/southeast of Salisbury (Chincoteague and Assateague, off the coast of Maryland and the Virginia Peninsula)took a vote, seeing as how they straddled the MD line, and decided they did NOT support secession, but seeing as they were not important strongholds to any military operations, not many took notice...
this slave's relatives have lived there since before the revolutionary war...and still live there now; to this slave's knowledge, no battles were fought anywhere near them.

(in reply to PAVANE)
Profile   Post #: 11
RE: Civil war query - 4/3/2006 3:02:58 PM   
PAVANE


Posts: 118
Joined: 1/3/2005
Status: offline 		hello caitlyn and also mercnbeth
thanks for the replies and suggestions. caitlyn mentions something i thought might be a answer to the mystery. that is were pro southern  forces (militia) raised in that part of maryland early in the war. say in 61. then dispersed by northern forces.

mick


_____________________________

'Go tell the Spartans to damn the torpedoes.'

(in reply to caitlyn)
Profile   Post #: 12
Page:   [1]
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> Civil war query Page: [1]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts




Collarchat.com © 2025
Terms of Service Privacy Policy Spam Policy

0.066