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As General Robert E. Lee moved among his army near the blazing Chancellor house the morning after their victory at Chancellorsville, he was mobbed by his cheering troops. Again, they had done the impossible. Again, they had turned back the invader. The triumph at Chancellorsville was Robert E. Lee’s supreme moment.
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Scene takes place in Winchester, VA in June, 1861. Depiction of the taking of railroad trains overland by Stonewall Jackson from Martinsburg to Strasburg, more than 38 miles. A team of 40 horses was hitched to accomplish this daunting task.
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Scene takes place in Montgomery, OH on July 14, 1863. In July of 1863, General John Hunt Morgan led 2,500 Confederate cavalrymen on a daring, three-week raid through Indiana and Ohio.
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Jackson at Piedmont Station, July 19, 1861. Jackson's troops went to war as if heading for a holiday picnic. As they boarded a train at Virginia's Piedmont Station - among the first troops moved to battle by rail - they encountered a boisterous celebration. Flags were flying, troops were waving and young women were passing out treats. A holiday atmosphere masked a grim reality: Many of these youngsters, like their counterparts in the North, would soon be dead or wounded in the war's first major battle at First Manassas.
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Confederate White House, July 13, 1862. The Capital had been saved. The dream of Southern independence remained alive. Now it was time for celebration and planning for the future. On July 13 1862, General Lee - now heralded as the hero of the South - arrived at the Confederate White House to confer with President Jefferson Davis. Accompanying him was General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, the savior of the Shenandoah Valley, who would soon become Lee's indispensable right arm. At the White House the three would plan strategy for the defense of the South, now given new birth by the recent victories near Richmond.
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Kershaw's Brigade at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862. The second in a Panoramic Set of two Limited Edition prints, Valor in Gray is a companion print to Courage in Blue - Chamberlain at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. Defending the Sunken Road were troops from Georgia, North Carolina, and Kershaw’s Brigade of South Carolinians, commanded by Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw. Despite the numerical superiority of the men in blue at Fredericksburg, Kershaw held his brigade steady and poured forth a terrible fire from behind the stone wall.
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Pickett’s Charge, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. They advanced under unfurled flags, crossing an open field under devastating fire. Their target was the center of the Federal line, which lay beneath a "copse of trees" atop distant Cemetery Ridge. For two days these men in butternut and gray — General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia — had engaged in bloody combat with their blue-uniformed adversaries from the Federal Army of the Potomac. They had won a dramatic victory in the first day's fighting, but had failed to overwhelm either flank of the Federal army on the second day. On the third day, Lee launched the mightiest infantry assault of his career — 13,000 southern troops converging on the center of the Federal line.
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Pres. Davis and Gen. Lee, May 31, 1862. They were words that changed the course of the war: “General Lee, I shall assign you to command of this army.” They were spoken by Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, on an evening ride following the Battle of Seven Pines.
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Lee in Charleston, December 15, 1861. In the autumn of 1861, General Robert E. Lee was dispatched to South Carolina to command the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. A gifted military engineer, he developed a defensive strategy, organized the region's resources, and directed placement of troops and artillery. Lee's wisdom was especially welcome in Charleston - which state and local leaders knew was a major Federal target. His efforts would prove to be crucially important to the Southern coast: In most places Lee's line of defense would endure for most of the war.
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26th N.C. at Front Royal, Virginia June 20, 1863. It was a joyful parade for the men in gray. General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, at peak strength and again victorious, marched northward through Virginia Shenandoah Valley. Fresh from a decisive victory over federal forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Lee's army was now taking the war to the North. Lee hoped to resupply his troops with Yankee crops and livestock, threaten Harrisburg, Philadelphia or Washington, and win the mighty victory that would earn a nationhood for the embattled South.
The residents of the Shenandoah Valley, who had been under constant threat by enemy forces for two years, welcomed Lee's army with jubilation. By the time the 26th North Carolina infantry marched through Front Royal with the rest of General A.P. Hill's corps, the town citizens were in a state of celebration. Led by their heralded band, the troops of the 26th passed by as if on review. Women waved their handkerchiefs, children marched alongside the soldiers, and all cheered the Gray-uniformed sons of the South. At Gettysburg, Lee's army - including the 26th North Carolina - would help break the Federal line on July 1, and would go the distance in the Pickett-Pettigrew Charge. But the cost to the regiment would be shocking: its casualty rate at Gettysburg would be a record 85% and the 26th would lose more men than any regiment in either army.
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Capt. John Hunt Morgan, Winter of 1861 - 1862. He was the model of a 19th century cavalry officer - tall, dashing, impeccably uniformed and always handsomely mounted. John Hunt Morgan was a Kentucky gentleman with a flair for the daring. He raised his own company of troops on the eve of war, and they followed him into Confederate service in 1861. An expert leader and a superb cavalry officer, he experienced a meteoric rise in rank from captain to brigadier general. His bold raids behind enemy lines in Tennessee and Kentucky - and into the Northern heartland of Ohio and Indiana - disrupted Federal operations, reinforced Confederate defenses and heartened the people of the embattled South. Once, as Morgan brazenly led his horse soldiers on a raid through Federally-occupied Kentucky, President Lincoln was moved to declare in frustration: "They are having a stampede in Kentucky." Morgan launched his reputation as a dashing Confederate cavalier with a series of raids through Kentucky's Green River country in the winter of 1861-1862. Targeting the important Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Morgan - then a captain - led his hard-riding troopers on a romp behind enemy lines. Braving bitter winter weather, they burned bridges, captured at least one locomotive and destroyed countless Yankee railroad cars. When the raids ended, Northern forces in Kentucky were left distracted and unnerved - and the fame and fable of warfare had crowned the fearless John Hunt Morgan.
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Spring Campaign 1864. There was little room left for speculation when it came to General Jubal A. Early, West Point graduate, lawyer, and Confederate general. By the early summer of 1864, Early was the last remaining high-ranking officer that Lee could trust to take command of a portion of the Army of Northern Virginia and lead it into the Shenandoah Valley against Union forces under General David Hunter, and to possibly draw away forces under general Grant near Petersburg and Richmond. By the late spring, Early had succeeded to command of the old Second Corps with the rank of lieutenant general. Despite the corps' losses in the Wilderness battles that spring, Early was able to muster about 8,000 muskets, which he led to Lynchburg, Virginia in mid-June. This inferior number would face twice that amount under Union arms. But Jubal was up to the task.
His arrival at Lynchburg caused the retreat of Hunter's forces. The chase down the Shenandoah Valley began. Within three weeks, Early's troops were across the Potomac River where they would be threatening the Nation's capitol itself. Audacious and quick, Jubal Early took his minimal force into Union territory and through tactically did not achieve a great victory, his summer campaign achieved a needed moral boost to the worsening Confederate situation.
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Generals Forrest, Cleburn and Granbury. Spring Hill, TN, November 29, 1864. The leaves of autumn had changed into tones of fiery reds and yellow as the Confederate Army of the Tennessee, under the leadership of General John Bell Hood, advanced into the rain-soaked countryside of Middle Tennessee. Atlanta had fallen despite Hood's aggressive defense of the city. General Hood's plan was to destroy Federal communication and supply lines and force Sherman to pursue him out of Georgia and into Tennessee.
Hood's force was spearheaded by some of the most talented and gallant generals in the Southern Army. On the evening of November the 29th at Spring Hill, Hood's force would briefly skirmish with Federal infantry. The attack was made at sunset. Unsure of enemy strength, General Hood did not give orders for a full-scale engagement. Hood's force had greatly outnumbered the Federals, and more decisive action would have given him a quick victory. The next day Hood would send wave after wave of southern soldiers into Federal fortified positions, at Franklin, Tennessee, silencing many of the guns of the west.
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Tennessee, March 5, 1863. If he could help it he never waited for an enemy to charge, Nathan Bedford Forrest declared. Instead, he charged too. Serving under Major General Earl Van Dorn in March of 1863, Forrest followed his own advice when out numbered by Federal forces near Thompson's Station, Tennessee. Forrest, then a brigadier general, drove the Federal artillery from the field, then cut off the Federal infantry's line of retreat. To break through, the Northern cavalry charged Forrest - and Forrest then "charged too." Astride a favorite mount - "Roderrick" - Forrest led the counter attack. When "Roderrick" was shot down and he was unhorsed, Forrest scrambled to his feet and led the charge on foot. Such a ferocity was too much for the enemy, who scattered or surrendered. Van Dorn gave Forrest credit for the victory.
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July 2, 1863 has begun as a relatively quiet day. It was almost as if the two armies were stunned and recovering from the previous day's battle. However, what was to come would make yesterday's fighting seem like a skirmish. Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, commanding the much vaunted 2nd Corp of the Army of the Potomac had spend much of the day riding back and forth between army headquarters and his three division commanders, anticipating the actions of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. While Hancock was visiting the 1st Division, now under the command of General John C. Cadwell, movement was noticed to the left and behind the Weikert farm. To everyone's surprise General Sickles entire Third Corps "with flags flying and bayonets glistening in the sunlight" was seen advancing to the Emmitsburg Road. Hancock immediately recognized the significance of this ill-advised spectacle and remarked, "Wait a moment, you will soon seen them tumbling back."
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Berryville Wagon Train Raid, August 13, 1864: The 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, better known as Mosby's Rangers, was one of the most feared and renowned combat units operating in northern Virginia and the Lower Shenandoah Valley. On August the 12th, Mosby gathered his men, intent on interrupting Major General Phillip H. Sheridan's supply line. After burning many of the wagons at Berryville, Mosby and his men captured 200 prisoners, 500 mules, 50 horses, 200 cattle, along with what spoils they could carry from the wagons.
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G. W. Bush becomes the first President to land in an airplane on an aircraft carrier. The plane is a Lockheed S-3B Viking, designed for ASW work.
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No scene is more compelling to an appreciation of the price of freedom than one capturing the emotional departure of a service member from their families. In this limited edition print, renowned artist Jim Dietz has captured a typical scene where our citizen soldiers are about to answer duty’s call. Leaving their jobs, their homes, and their families, they continue to respond in the finest traditions established throughout our history. This print captures their sacrifice and the sacrifice of their families to insure the liberty and security enjoyed by all Americans.
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"A tribal elder stands timeless, his aged face mirroring the sum of his experiences and those of his ancestors."
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6th US Cavalry. At the beginning of the battle outside of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, near Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, George Platt was just another private in the massed ranks of the 6th U.S. Cavalry. In the coming maelstrom of cutting sabers, colliding horseflesh and crushing hooves, Platt saves his unit's guidon, helps rally the men, and wins the Medal of Honor.
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