serving as spies and scouts
serving as spies and scouts
serving as spies and scouts
The Union ship called the USS Merrimack was captured by the South. The ship had been burned by the Union forces, but the Confederate forces took it and rebuilt it into an ironclad ship. It was renamed as the CSS Virginia.
To defeat the rebel forces and restore the Union.
For the Union: 23; for the South: 11 Additionally, all border states sent forces to fight for the South and the North.
Union versus Confederate forces .
military and civilian targets
The South gained nothing. The battle was won by the Union forces under Gordon Meade.
No. The surrender of the Confederacy showed that the Union army and navy could conquer the south. It showed that the Union forces could make the South abandon slavery. The South had no choice in the matter.
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During the American Civil War, the goal of the Union forces in the Western Theater was simple: to wrest control of the Mississippi River from Confederate forces as a prelude to invasions of the Deep South. The difficult part of the task came from the many fortresses and natural barriers between the Union forces and the achievement of their goal.
Meade commanded the Union forces. Lee led the Confederates.