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General Ward and the Ever Victorious Army
North America was not the only place roiled by Civil War in the early 1860s – China was undergoing its own civil war in the eastern provinces around Shanghai, known as the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864). The rebellion climaxed in the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battles, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Sieges
Tagged China, Chinese Gordon, Crimean War, Ever Victorious Army, Filibuster Army, Frederick Townsend Ward, Henry Burgevine, Massachusetts, mercenaries, Ningbo, Norwich University, Philippines, Salem, Shanghai, soldiers from Massachusetts, Taiping Rebellion
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“The Kind of Whom Heroes are Made”
150 years ago today, one of the rising stars of the Union army died along a lonely stretch of road west of Rome, Georgia. Twenty-nine-year-old Bvt. Maj. Gen. Thomas E.G. Ransom passed away from the effects of dysentery. It would … Continue reading
