Saturday, May 9, 2026

Today in
U.S. Civil War History

1864 - Union troops William T. Sherman secured Snake Creek Gap, Georgia.

1864 - Troops under Confederate General John A. McCausland won the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain. McCausland was promoted to brigadier general for the victory.


U.S. Civil War Quote

"Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books." - Walt Whitman

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