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* [[:Category:Civil War Defenses of Richmond and Petersburg|Richmond and Petersburg, VA]] * [[:Category:Civil War Defenses of Vicksburg|Vicksburg, MS]] ...

...as [[Fort Whitworth]] or [[Battery Whitworth]] after the Whitworth family of Mayfield, Virginia. == History of Fort Baldwin == ...

...t Marker - 11.jpg|795px|thumb|center|Confluence of the James River and the Appomattox River at City Point]] ...at a strategic point of land at the confluence of the James River and the Appomattox River. This confluence provided deep water access to Union controlled Chesa ...

..., 27 Sep 1876. He graduated fifth in the [[:Category:West Point 1837|Class of 1837]] at the [[:Category:United States Military Academy|United States Mili ...er at Thibodeaux, Louisiana, serving his State, 1859-1861, as commissioner of public works. ...

...]]. Sheridan graduated 34th of 52 in the [[:Category:West Point 1853|Class of 1853]]. His first assignment as a 2nd Lt. was to the [[1st U.S. Infantry]] ...hern Missouri. Gen. [[Gordon Granger]] requested Sheridan be given command of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry vacated by Granger's promotion. Sheridan went from ...

...12 Oct 1870. He was a career army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during the [[U.S. Civil War]]. He eventually command ...ngle demerit. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers. ...

...-1865)''' - Born 12 Feb 1809 in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Sixteenth President of the United States from 4 Mar 1861 to 15 Apr 1865. Assassinated on 15 Apr 18 At the outset of the [[Black Hawk War]] Lincoln joined a volunteer Illinois milita company a ...