Poplar Grove National Cemetery | Wikipedia audio article
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Poplar Grove National Cemetery
00:00:09 1 A Nation's Need
00:00:37 2 A soldier's burial
00:01:22 3 A final resting place
00:03:28 4 Where Valor Proudly Sleeps
00:04:10 5 External links
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Poplar Grove National Cemetery is near Petersburg, Virginia, and is managed as part of Petersburg National Battlefield.
Tombstone house (Part 1)
The tombstone house in Petersburg, VA. Made in the 1930s from the discarded headstones from the Civil War National Cemetery up the road from the house called Poplar Grove.
More Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery views December 11 2016
Views on the 154th anniversary of the battle
PETERSBURG PARK BATTLEFIELD
Tulip Grove Civil War Cemetery
This is a quaint cemetery in Hermitage, TN. I flew around a bit with my drone. RIP soldiers.
Episode 149 - A Blast from the Past Episodes 7 and 8
Genealogy Gems PodcastEpisode: # 07 Original Publish Date: April 8, 2007
The April 15 tax deadline is looming: did you know that The Civil War income tax was the first tax paid on individual incomes by residents of the United States?
There is a fascinating article by Cynthia G. Fox on the subject called Income Tax Records of the Civil War Years. It appears on the National Archives website and is excerpted from the Prologue Magazine Winter 1986 edition, Vol. 18, No. 4.
GEM #1: Anna-Karin’s Genealogical Podcast
Anna-Karin Schander lives in Sweden and she publishing a podcast in English about Swedish-American genealogy. It will contain both information about Swedish genealogy and history and records and what happened to the Swedes who immigrated mainly to USA (but also to other countries) and the records they left. She includes wonderful old traditional Swedish music as well.
GEM #2 – A website dedicated to the only war fought on American soil by Americans: The Civil War
SONG: Battle of Manassas
Gov. Sam Houston-Texas: “Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche.”
The Civil War began at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina 146 years ago this week on April 12. 3 million fought - 600,000 died.
Chances are someone in your family tree fought in the war. But one thing we know for sure, if you’ve traced any of your family lines back to the 1860s in the US, then you have folks in your tree who lived through and were deeply affected by the Civil War. We’re going to want to learn more about their experience in order to understand their lives. This will lead us to more genealogical leads.
Read about the Civil War in the newspapers that your ancestors read. In addition to the newspapers available by paid subscription on Ancestry.com, there’s a terrific free resource!
Go to
Click on The Civil War Years 1860-1866
Follow the links to topics of interest.
Locate ancestors who may have fought in the war. A terrific website is the Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System Website
Areas of the System:
Soldiers The CWSS includes 6.3 million soldier names from the National Archives, which were compiled by NPS' in the CWSS project. As of February, 2000, volunteers in over 36 states had completed the data entry of all the 6.3 million soldier names from 44 states & territories. The two final editing processes for the records have recently been completed.
Sailors The NPS and its' CWSS partners are committed to eventually include the names of all Union and Confederate Naval personnel. Given that the records sources for the Navy are not as well organized as the Army records, nor are they micro-filmed, the target date for this is still to be determined.
Regiments The CWSS will include histories of over 4,000 Union and Confederate units (regiments), which will be linked to soldiers' names and battle histories. These will be completed this year as part of the CWSS site. The site currently includes regimental histories of units from 44 states and territories.
Battles In the CWSS The unit histories are linked to histories of the 364 most significant Civil War battles already on the Internet from the NPS' American Battlefield Protection Program. These battle histories were compiled as part of a report to Congress by the Civil War Sites Advisory Committee.
Prisoners The current version of the CWSS includes prisoner records of Union prisoners at Andersonville and Confederate prisoners at Fort McHenry.
Cemeteries The National Park Service manages 14 National Cemeteries, all but one of which is related to a Civil War battlefield park. The NPS is planning on listing all names of burials in these cemeteries on the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System. The first phase involves data taken from written records of Poplar Grove National Cemetery at Petersburg National Battlefield, and also includes images of the headstones.
Medal of Honor This feature of the CWSS includes information on over 1,200 Civil War soldiers and sailors who received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
And National Parks
FEATURED areas of the site:
NEW STORIES: The National Park Service Civil War Institute – Stories of the Civil War addresses the...
Siege of Petersburg | Wikipedia audio article
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Siege of Petersburg
00:01:30 1 Background
00:01:39 1.1 Military situation
00:06:37 2 Opposing forces
00:06:46 2.1 Union
00:10:00 2.2 Confederate
00:11:59 2.3 Comparison between Union and Confederate armies
00:13:21 2.4 Role of African Americans
00:13:48 3 Initial attempts to capture Petersburg
00:13:59 3.1 Butler's assault (June 9)
00:17:06 3.2 Meade's assaults (June 15–18,1864)
00:24:09 4 Initial attempts to cut the railroads (June 21–30)
00:25:05 4.1 Jerusalem Plank Road (June 21–23)
00:27:26 4.2 Wilson-Kautz Raid (June 22 – July 1)
00:33:59 5 First Battle of Deep Bottom (July 27–29)
00:37:01 6 The Crater (July 30)
00:41:42 7 Second Deep Bottom (August 14–20)
00:45:52 8 Operations against the Weldon Railroad
00:46:02 8.1 Globe Tavern (August 18–21)
00:49:18 8.2 Second Reams Station (August 25)
00:53:16 9 Beefsteak Raid (September 14–17)
00:55:25 10 Union offensives, late September
00:55:35 10.1 New Market Heights (September 29–30)
00:56:23 10.2 Peebles Farm (September 30 – October 2)
00:57:39 11 Actions near Richmond, October
00:57:49 11.1 Darbytown and New Market Roads (October 7)
00:58:26 11.2 Darbytown Road (October 13)
00:58:57 11.3 Fair Oaks and Darbytown Road (October 27–28)
00:59:37 12 Boydton Plank Road (October 27–28)
01:00:31 13 Hatcher's Run (February 5–7, 1865)
01:01:46 14 Confederate breakout attempt at Fort Stedman (March 25)
01:05:55 15 Aftermath
01:07:41 16 Classifying the campaigns
01:08:30 17 Battlefield preservation
01:09:42 18 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Richmond–Petersburg Campaign was a series of battles around Petersburg, Virginia, fought from June 9, 1864, to March 25, 1865, during the American Civil War. Although it is more popularly known as the Siege of Petersburg, it was not a classic military siege, in which a city is usually surrounded and all supply lines are cut off, nor was it strictly limited to actions against Petersburg. The campaign consisted of nine months of trench warfare in which Union forces commanded by Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Petersburg unsuccessfully and then constructed trench lines that eventually extended over 30 miles (48 km) from the eastern outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, to around the eastern and southern outskirts of Petersburg. Petersburg was crucial to the supply of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's army and the Confederate capital of Richmond. Numerous raids were conducted and battles fought in attempts to cut off the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad. Many of these battles caused the lengthening of the trench lines.
Lee finally gave in to the pressure and abandoned both cities in April 1865, leading to his retreat and surrender at Appomattox Court House. The Siege of Petersburg foreshadowed the trench warfare that was common in World War I, earning it a prominent position in military history. It also featured the war's largest concentration of African American troops, who suffered heavy casualties at such engagements as the Battle of the Crater and Chaffin's Farm.
Virginia: Top 10 Unique Places to Visit in 3 Days!
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In this video, we explore the beautiful state of Virginia and breakdown our top 10 favorite unique places. This list is budget friendly, with all but one (Natural Bridge) being completely free, and all of these places can be visited in one weekend! Here’s a quick guide to our top 10:
10. Mt. Trashmore Park – 0:38
9. The Grand Kugel – 1:39
8. The Markel Building – 2:20
7. The Tombstone House – 3:13
6. Miniature Graceland – 4:44
5. Pest House Medical Museum – 5:30
4. Ellwood Manor – 6:17
3. Appomattox Court House – 7:58
2. Natural Bridge – 8:58
1. The Ruins of Belle Isle – 10:15
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Appomattox Campaign, Episode 23: The Confederate Cemetery (HD)
After the end of the American Civil War the country had lost 750,000 men over the course of four turbulent years. Eighteen Confederates and one Union soldier were overlooked and left behind by the armies after they perished in the fields around Appomattox Court House. The ladies of the village quickly established a memorial society to create a cemetery for these men, and they gave the soldiers a proper burial in 1866. Their sacrifices helped the country answer some difficult questions about American identity and the future of the nation.
Thank you for joining us along our tour of the Appomattox Campaign. The videos of this series are now available as a seamless playlist on YouTube:
These videos will be posted on the park's YouTube channel, but links will also be available through the park's Facebook and Twitter pages. Use the hashtag #APX152 to follow events occurring at the park related to the 152nd Anniversary of the battles and surrender of General Lee's army.
Website: nps.gov/apco
Facebook: facebook.com/appomattoxnps
Twitter: twitter.com/appomattoxnps