The Confederates fought a successful delaying action at the Battle of Salem Church and by May 4 had driven back Sedgwick's men to Banks's Ford, surrounding them on three sides.

The next day, the Battle of Lookout Mountain was fought, driving the Confederates off the mountain.

The " Shreveport Rebels " from Shreveport, Louisiana, were among the Confederates who fought at Columbus.

The Creek and Seminole supported the Union, while the Cherokee fought a civil war within their own nation between the majority Confederates and the minority, pro-Union men.

He became an enemy of discrimination of all kinds, fought against the Confederates ( although he was a Southerner himself ), and tried to protect the rights of Native Americans.

So alienated was O ' Neill by the terms of the peace the Confederates had made with Ormonde that he refused to join the Catholic / Royalist coalition and in 1648 his Ulster army fought with other Irish Catholic armies.

The combined companies fought bravely for a few minutes, as more Confederates came up to press them.

Given command of the Army of the Cumberland, he fought against Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg at Stones River, and later outmaneuvered him in the brilliant Tullahoma Campaign, driving the Confederates from Middle Tennessee.

The Union army retreated toward Washington and fought with the pursuing Confederates on September 1, 1862, at the Battle of Chantilly.

General Forrest, with whose command I was attached, fought General Wilson with about four thousand Confederates ; the Federals having ten thousand as fine cavalry as ever followed any command in the line of battle.

On June 3, 1864, a second battle was fought at Cold Harbor, between Union army under General Ulysses S. Grant and the Confederates under General Lee.

The war was fought in the South, and Union raiders ( and sometimes Confederates too ) systematically destroyed bridges and rolling stock — and sometimes bent rails — to hinder the logistics of the enemy.

The engagement was fought between the Military Division of the Mississippi ( led by Major General William T. Sherman ) on the side of the Union and the Army of Tennessee ( General Joseph E. Johnston ) for the Confederates.

Confederate soldiers ' homes were supported entirely by subscribers, or by their state with no funds from the federal government against which the Confederates had fought.

The Irish Confederates professed to side with the English Royalists during the ensuing civil wars, but mostly fought their own war in defence of the Irish Catholic landed class's interests.

From 1641 to 1649, the Confederates fought against Scottish Covenanter and English Parliamentarian armies in Ireland.

They fought the Confederates ( with the support of the English Parliament ) from their arrival in Ulster in 1642 until 1648.

In 1649, on the second of these occasions, a mixed force of Irish Confederates and English Royalists were routed by Dublin's English Parliamentarian garrison in the battle of Rathmines, fought on the city's southern outskirts.

Indeed the Confederates had fought a mini civil war among themselves in 1648 over this alliance, with Owen Roe O ' Neill's Ulster army leaving the Confederation and only re-joining it after Cromwell had actually landed in Ireland.

These troops fought in the inconclusive Battle of Williamsburg on May 5, after which the Confederates continued to move northwest in the direction of Richmond.

The outnumbered Confederates fought bravely for over an hour, as Wilson deployed more Union cavalry and artillery on the field.

Although a relatively small battle, it was distinguished by the prominent role played by black Union soldiers who, despite lacking much military training, fought bravely with inferior weaponry and finally drove off the Confederates with help from gunboats.

Fewer than half of the Confederates who had fought at Champion Hill made it into the defenses at Vicksburg.

A veteran of the American Civil War, where he fought for the 12th Maine Regiment against the Confederates in Louisiana, he was hired by the Japanese government as a foreign adviser to assist in the modernization of the Japanese education system after the Meiji Restoration.

These militia units sought to protect the town and to scout as far south as the Kansas-Indian Territory border to prevent Confederates from coming too close to town.

The Confederates sought to protect their remaining ports for cotton sales to Europe, as well as importation of supplies.

Since the first battery at Aquia was at the river level and intended mainly to protect the railroad terminal, the Confederates strengthened defenses at Aquia before May 29, 1861 by the addition of a second battery atop the bluffs to the south of the confluence of the Aquia Creek with the Potomac River as originally selected by the scouting party.

The committee's questions accused him of improper and frequent communications with the Confederates, of not re-enforcing Baker, of using his men to protect slaveholder property in Maryland, and of returning runaway slaves to their owners — despite the last two of these Maryland as well as Federal law.

Assigned to protect Harrisburg from a threatened attack by Confederates under Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, Couch directed militia from his department to skirmish with enemy cavalry elements at Sporting Hill, one of the war's northernmost engagements.

Smith took the rest of the Right Wing into Mississippi to protect Sherman's supply lines during the Atlanta Campaign, defeating the Confederates at the Battle of Tupelo.

Meanwhile the Confederates turned the cannons in Battery Buchanan at the southern tip of the peninsula and fired on the northern wall as it fell into Union hands.

They were most numerous in border areas, including southern parts of Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana ( in Missouri, comparable groups were avowed Confederates ).

Focused on the welfare of the freedmen, abolitionists were appalled by Greeley's formula for cooperation with " better class " southern whites by granting amnesty to all Confederates and adopting a hands-off policy toward the South.

By 11: 00, the Confederates had captured two rows of barracks about from the southern end of the fort.

In the 1870s, southern Democrats began to muster more political power as former Confederates began to vote again.

The southern Confederates were not fully trusted by the townspeople, particularly after the fall of Carrick on Suir due to treachery.

The Vermont Brigade took the southern flank and charged the advancing Confederates.

Fort Wagner, or Battery Wagner as it was known to the Confederates, controlled the southern approaches to Charleston Harbor.

The Confederates proclaimed Tucson the capital of the western district of the Confederate Arizona Territory, which comprised what is now southern Arizona and southern New Mexico.

Although resigned to the abolition of slavery, many former Confederates were not willing to accept the social changes nor political domination by former slaves.

However, he was opposed by Radical Republicans who feared the former Confederates secretly believed in slavery and Confederate nationalism, and tried to impose restrictions that would prevent most ex-rebels from voting or holding office.

Historians agree the Copperheads ' goal of negotiating a peace and restoring the Union with slavery was naive and impractical, for the Confederates refused to consider giving up their independence.

In Brazil, however, slavery was still legal, making it a particularly attractive location to former Confederates, among whom was a former member of the state senate of Alabama, William Hutchinson Norris.

Many were former slaves and understood the personal consequences of a loss to the Confederates — at best an immediate return to slavery rather than being treated as a prisoner of war.

It is likely that the Biographical Directory is the correct source ; the Confederate state government of Tennessee was never very effective and largely dysfunctional due to the early loss of much Tennessee territory to Union forces by the Confederates and also because neither the Confederacy nor slavery had ever had much public support in East Tennessee.