On November 24, 1863, the 4th Michigan Cavalry entered Ooltewah and captured seventeen Confederates, including two officers, and destroyed a train of four wagons.

When the Austrian army entered the ambush, the Confederates attacked from above with rocks, logs and halberds.

Ledlie's men entered the huge crater instead of going around it, becoming trapped, and were subjected to murderous fire from Confederates around the rim, resulting in high casualties.

As the Union convoy entered among the stakes, the Confederates opened fire with deadly accuracy and wrought havoc on the vessels.

Men who entered the crater became trapped as the Confederates regrouped and began firing down at them.

The Confederates entered Ohio on July 13, destroying bridges, railroads, and government stores.

In the afternoon of July 7 an advance force of Confederates entered Brandenburg, Kentucky where they rendezvoused with Capt.

Although some of their subordinate agents were unscrupulous or incompetent, the majority of local Bureau agents were hindered in carrying out their duties by the opposition of former Confederates, the lack of a military presence to enforce their authority, and an excessive amount of paperwork.

Colonel Frederick W. Lander, impersonated, will again make his break-neck ride down the steep declivity of Talbott's ( now College ) Hill and thunder across the bridge to join Colonel Benjamin F. Kelley's ( West ) Virginia Infantry, then swarming through the streets in pursuit of the retreating Confederates.

The battle was won by the Confederates and the town of Corydon was then sacked and stores were looted and ransomed.

Indiana Home Guards were then in pursuit of the Confederates.

General Hooker, then commanding the Army of the Potomac, had grand, aggressive plans for the campaign, but was too timid in execution, allowing the Confederates to seize the initiative.

First, in the summer of 1864, Confederate General Jubal Early cleared the valley of its Union occupiers and then proceeded to raid Maryland, Pennsylvania and D. C. Then during the Autumn, Union General Philip Sheridan was sent to drive Early from the valley and once-and-for-all destroy its use to the Confederates by putting it to the torch using scorched-earth tactics.

Union forces then retired to Chattanooga while the Confederates occupied the surrounding heights, besieging the city.

He severely limited voter registration for former Confederates and then required that only registered voters ( including black men ) be eligible to serve on juries.

The Confederates then launched a strong counterattack, and as the Union troops began withdrawing under fire, many panicked and it turned into a rout as McDowell's men frantically ran without order in the direction of Washington, D. C.

Fox's orders were to land at Sumter with supplies only, and if he was opposed by the Confederates, to respond with the U. S. Navy vessels following and to then land both supplies and men.

The Federals then secured the town, capturing numerous prisoners, and driving away the remaining Confederates.

He was then ordered to Boston where he delivered the captives to Fort Warren, a prison for captured Confederates.

The Confederates then retreated northwest and crossed the Chickahominy near the point where New Kent, Henrico, and Hanover counties border each other, in modern times known as Bottoms Bridge.

Eventually, the Confederates had to withdraw entirely from the territory back into Confederate Arizona and then Texas.

The Confederates then invaded Maryland, hoping to obtain European recognition and an end to the war.

The Kentucky legislature then requested Union help in driving the Confederates out of the state, at which point both armies set up defensive positions all through the state.

Grant then lead a counterattack the following morning and drove the Confederates from the field, who then retreated back to their base at Corinth.

Drake then informed the Confederates that shelling would commence at 18: 00 after allowing time to evacuate non-combatants from the city.

Despite the surrender, small bands of Confederates continue to resist, and the United States responds to each attack by executing random civilians unless the perpetrators turn themselves in or are captured, and then executed.

The Union soldiers moved forward and quickly pushed the Confederates from the first line of rifle pits but were then subjected to a punishing fire from the Confederate lines up the ridge.

Because of the threat of invasion by the large Union Army force at Fort Monroe across Hampton Roads from the threatened cities of Norfolk, Virginia and Portsmouth, Virginia and the County of Norfolk, Virginia, although many of the Union soldiers were then engaged in the Peninsula Campaign, the Confederates evacuated the Norfolk area on May 9, 1862 and the early morning of May 10, 1862.

Peirce was ordered to first send Colonel Abram Duryee's 5th New York Volunteer Infantry ( Duryée's Zouaves ) from Camp Hamilton at Hampton to a point between Little Bethel and Big Bethel and then, after having cut the road to Big Bethel, to attack the Confederates at Little Bethel.

Sedgwick moved his soldiers through Fredericksburg and towards the plain below the Heights, then stopped and engaged in long range artillery fire with the Confederates for most of the morning.

The Confederates opened fire and mortally wounded McPherson.

Hazen's brigade played a major role in the crossing at Brown's Ferry near Chattanooga that, together with the arrival of troops under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, opened the line of supply or " Cracker Line " to the Army of the Cumberland, penned into its defenses by the Confederates .. Hazen was promoted to brevet major in the regular army for Chickamauga and brevet lieutenant colonel for Chattanooga.

The Confederates refused, and the gunboat opened fire.

On April 15, these batteries were unmasked and opened fire, driving the Confederates out of this important position.

As Rodes's men pressed the attack they came to the stone wall, whereupon the Federal reserve line opened up on the unsuspecting Confederates, driving them back towards the ridge.

The Confederates promptly made repairs at Fort Moultrie and dozens of new batteries and defense positions were constructed throughout the Charleston harbor area, including an unusual floating battery, and armed with weapons captured from the arsenal.

For armed forces, the Confederates had available to them only the militias and lords ' private levies, commanded by aristocratic amateurs like Lord Mountgarret.

Not only did the Union outnumber the Confederates by three divisions to two brigades, it had superior firepower — all were armed with rapid-firing Spencer carbines.

Quaker guns made of pine logs were mounted in a ruse to fool the Union into believing that the Confederates were much better armed at the Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana in 1863.

An armed civilian militia encountered a detachment of Confederates under General Albert G. Jenkins.

Although they had gained a numerical superiority, the Confederates were mostly armed with short range shotguns and pistols, which couldn't reach the Union positions three hundred yards away ; the Confederate howitzers also couldn't reach the Union artillery on the far bank of the river.

Lynde reformed his command but decided to retreat back to the fort, with the Confederates troops and armed Arizona citizens in pursuit.

The presence of the auxiliaries was seen as provocative by many Confederates who were not used to the idea of armed black men with authority over whites.