Mules- shavetails ,belled tails and bell sharps
Aug 23, 2011 · Interesting military tradition for mules: New arrivals had their tails shaved hence shavetails Then as they learned new skills and their tail grew a bell was cut into the tail to show the …
First-hand account of Upton's Charge at Spotsylvania
Nov 20, 2012 · Thought this was an excellent account of Col. Emory Upton's charge on the Mule Shoe salient at Spotsylvania, May 10, 1864. From the diary of Clinton...
Sherman - Sherman's Field order No. 15 | Famous People of the Late ...
Oct 10, 2012 · He saw 40 acres and a mule as a permanent fix to the problem of 4 million freed slaves without any property or money. Again, Lincoln let it slide. It was only after Lincoln's assasination that …
The Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania Court House, May 12, 1864
Nov 20, 2012 · On this day, May 12, 150 years ago one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War occurred. At 4:35 am this morning the II Corps of the Army of the Potomac under Maj. Gen. Winfield …
McGowan's South Carolina Brigade at the Bloody Angle
Nov 20, 2012 · Today, May 12, marks the anniversary of the infamous fight for the Mule Shoe salient and Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania C.H. After Hancock's massive assault busted through the Mule …
Mules dressed as reindeer | Four Footed Friends
May 23, 2018 · Mule-deer Oborseth, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons - ehhhh close enough I have read several times about what happened near Savannah on Christmas Day 1864. Several men …
Mule Shoe salient: 'Horror of the melee' | Eastern Theater
May 24, 2016 · Many realized after the Mule Shoe's construction that it was not the best position; IIRC, the line was laid out by one of Ed Johnson's aides, who was not a professional engineer. Can't recall …
Four-mule army team and wagon | Period Photos & Examinations
Mar 2, 2012 · City Point, Virginia (vicinity). Four-mule army team and wagon. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1865] NOTES Caption from negative sleeve: Four Mule Army Wagons, Army wagon going to …
Confederate Mountain Howitzer - American Civil War Forums
Apr 10, 2012 · The handler pointed the mule at the empty prairie and then the handler lit the fuse to the loaded Mountain Howitzer on the back of the mule. The mule had never heard the sound of a …
1865/1866 pictures of the Wilderness Battlefield - American Civil War ...
Apr 12, 2014 · The house and farm were located inside the Mule Shoe salient, about several hundred yards behind John B. Gordon's reserve line. Just ahead of the Harrison House was where Gordon …