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Battle of Fort Sumter
The location of the battle was in Charleston South Carolina. The confederates won this war! There were only 85 northern troop and 500 southern troops! -
Civil War..Anaconda Plan
The other name is also Scotts Great Snake. Started by Winfield Scott. This was a plan to cut the south into. -
Battle of Bull Run
They wanted pres. Lincoln to end the rebellion of the southern states. The confederate spy network had something to do with all of it. -
Battle of Shiloh
In April 1862 General Ulysses S. Grant's army was encamped along the Tennessee River just north of the Mississippi border; poised to strike a blow into the heartland of the South. Grant had been at this location for about a month, awaiting the arrival of additional troops under General Buell before he began his march southward. Twenty miles to the south, in Corinth, Mississippi, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston ordered his troops northward with the plan of attacking Grant before Buell -
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South), fought on September 17, 1862. General Mclellan launches attacks against Lees army. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
Having grown angry with Major General George B. McClellan's unwillingness to pursue General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virgina after the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln relieved him on November 5, 1862, and replaced him with Major General Ambrose Burnside two days later. Planning a late fall offensive, Burnside intended to move into Virginia and feint towards Culpeper Court House or Gordonsville before quickly marching southeast to Fredericksburg. -
Emacipation Proclomation
President Abe Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on this date back then! Annouycing that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious areas are, and henceforward shall be free! -
Battle Chancellorsville
Morale in the Federal Army of the Potomac rose with the appointment of Joseph Hooker to command. Hooker reorganized the army and formed a cavalry corps. He wanted to strike at Lee's army while a sizable portion was detached under Longstreet in the Suffolk area. The Federal commander left a substantial force at Fredericksburg to tie Lee to the hills where Burnside had been defeated. -
battle of Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. -
Battle Of Gettysburg
Following his victory at Chancellorsville in May, 1863, General Lee received approval from his government to invade the north. Lee hoped an invasion would fuel the northern peace movement and, at least, disrupt the Union war effort. After the death of Stonewall Jackson, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, 75,000-strong, had been reorganized into three army corps under Longstreet, Ewell, and A.P. Hill, with a cavalry division under J.E.B. Stuart. On June 3, advance troops of the Confederate army lef -
Sherman's March to Sea
Also known as the Savannah Campaign. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 16 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. It inflicted significant damage, particularly to industry and infrastructure (per the doctrine of total war), and also to civilian property. He destroyed much of the South's physical and psychological capacity to wage war. -
Battle of Appomattox Court House
This was the final engagement of the confederate states army and the union army before surrendering! Lee abandonded the confederate capital of Richmond VA and he retreated west hoping to join his army with the confed. forces in North Carolina!
