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Peninsula Campaign
a) The operation, commanded by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, was an amphibious turning movement intended to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond by circumventing the Confederate States Army in Northern Virginia.
b) General Robert E. Lee turned the Seven Days Battles into a Union defeat -
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Battle of Shiloh
a) On the morning of April 6, 1862, 40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River.
b) Union victory
c) The battle was important because it showed that Lincoln was serious about preserving the Union. Also it angered Southerners even more which caused them to start a longer war. -
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Second Battle of Bull Run
a) about 1,300 killed, and about 7,000 wounded
b) a confederate victory
c) Confederates drove the Union army back to Washington, D.C. and opened the North to Confederate invasions during summer and fall of 1862.
d) 62,000 Union forces attacked 20,000 Confederates between Gainesville and Manassas, Virginia, then on the second day 28,00 more confederate troops joined forces. -
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Vicksburg
a) Union victory
b) It was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
c) Union forces under U.S. Grant assaulted the Confederate position at Vicksburg, commanded by J. C. Pemberton. After two assaults were repulsed with heavy losses, Grant settled in to besiege the Confederate position. It took about a month, but the Confederates ultimately gave up the position on July 4,1863. -
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Battle of the Wilderness
a) Confederate victory
b) The fighting took place in an area of Virginia where tangled underbrush and trees had grown up in long-abandoned farmland, near the old Chancellorsville battlefield.
c) Close-quarters fighting among the dense woods created high casualties.
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Petersburg Campaign
a) The campaign for Petersburg lasted 292 days and involved scores of military engagements both south of the Appomattox River and north of the James, resulting in an estimated 70,000 casualties.
b) Once Grant abandoned hope of taking Petersburg by main attack, he focused his attention on strangling those cities and the Army of Northern Virginia by cutting each supply line leading from the south or west. -
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Mobile Bay
b)The Union won the battle
c)It was extensively covered by Union newspapers and was a significant boost for Abraham Lincoln’s bid for re-election three months after the battle -
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Sherman’s March
a) Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
b) Sherman’s soldiers took food and livestock was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoned confederate cause. -
Lincoln’s assassination
John Wilkes Booth shot him in the head in Ford’s theatre in Washington, D.C. with a .44 caliber single shot derringer. The president's body was placed in a temporary coffin, draped with a flag and escorted by armed cavalry to the White House, where surgeons conducted a thorough autopsy
