Wednesday, May 21, 2025


Today in
U.S. Civil War History


1856 - In Kansas, proslavery men raided the abolitionist town of Lawrence. John Brown personally sought revenge for the act. On May 25, Brown and his sons attacked three cabins along Pottawatomie Creek. They killed five men and triggered a summer of guerilla warfare in the territory.

1863 - The Siege of Port Hudson began when Nathaniel Banks surrounded a Confederate stronghold and attacked. Franklin Gardner refused to surrender after being ordered to abandon fort by Joseph Johnston.


U.S. Civil War Quote

"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
- Union General William T. Sherman said this shortly before beginning his brutal March to the Sea








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