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Battle of Bull Run (1st)
<a href='http://http://www.civilwarhome.com/1manassas.htm' >The !st battle of bThe Union and Confederate forces met at Manassas, Virginia. Both sides planned to attack the other’s left flank with the majority of their armies. However, the confederates realized quickly the Union army’s plan and moved forces to meet the attack upon their left flank. At the same time, they were able to build up enough troops on the Union right side to overrun that flank leading to a disorderly retreat tull run -
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Battle of Bull run (2nd)
second battle of bull runThe Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas, as it was called by the Confederacy, was fought August 28–30, 1862,[1] as part of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale. -
Battle of Antietam
CivilWar TrustOn September 16, 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and his Union Army of the Potomac confronted Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Sharpsburg, Maryland. At dawn on September 17, Maj. General Joseph Hooker’s Union corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee’s left flank that began the Battle of Antietam, and the single bloodiest day in American military history. -
Battle of Fredricksburg
civil war trustThe Battle of Fredericksburg, fought December 11-15, 1862, was one of the largest and deadliest of the Civil War. It featured the first major opposed river crossing in American military history. Union and Confederate troops fought in the streets of Fredericksburg, the Civil War’s first urban combat. And with nearly 200,000 combatants, no other Civil War battle featured a larger concentration of soldie -
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siege of Vicksburg
history centralA victory at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863 gave the Union control of the Mississippi River in the American Civil War. -
Battle of Gettysburg
<a href='http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/graphics/experience/battles/gettysburg.html' >On July 1st, 1863, one of the largest and most crucial battles of the war was waged for 2 days in the hills around Gettysburg. General Robert E. Lee, with almost 75,000 men, invaded Pennsylvania, and encountered the Union Army of the Potomac, about 90,000 strong, under GeneralGeorge G. Meade on the outskirts of Gettysburg on July 1.On July 3rd, General George Pickett led the infamous, and disastrous charge -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Eyewitness to history.com The Martyr of liberty...
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On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Accompanying him at Ford's Theater that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. -
siege of Alanta
think questWith more than 100,000 troops under his command, Union General William T. Sherman kicked off the massive Atlanta campaign from Chattanooga Tennessee on May 5, 1864, against a Confederate force of some 65,000 under General Joseph E. Johnston. Sherman's advance was part of a coordinated Federal drive against the two main Confederate armies in the field in 1864; this drive by George G. Meade against Ro -
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