1882 ? I'm thinking thet might be 1862....
The Union wanted to track down General Lee and force him to surrender.The Confederacy wanted to capture the Union Capitol of Washington D.C., capture President Lincoln, try him for war crimes, and re-confederate the states into a new union.
The Union wanted to track down General Lee and force him to surrender.The Confederacy wanted to capture the Union Capitol of Washington D.C., capture President Lincoln, try him for war crimes, and re-confederate the states into a new union.
Confederate General
He was confederate.
· Alexander Stephens (Vice President of the Confederate States of America) · Braxton Bragg (Confederate General) · Cadwallader Washburn (Union General) · Davis, Jefferson (Confederate President) · Edward M. Stanton (Union Secretary of War) · Forest, General Nathan Bedford (Confederate General) · General George McClellan (Union General) · Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln's Vice President during the war) · Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall" (Confederate General) · Kane, Thomas (Union General) · Lee, Robert E. (Confederate General) · Mallory, Stephen R. (Confederate Secretary of the Navy) · Philip Kearny (Union General) · Quantrill, Confederate Captain William · Richard Taylor (Confederate General) · Stuart, James Ewell Brown "Jeb" (Confederate General) · Taliaferro, William B. (Confederate General) · Ulysses S. Grant (Union General) · Van Cleve, Horatio (Union General) · Wadsworth, James S. (Union General) · Zook, Samuel (Union General)
ANSWER No, he was an Union General.
In the course of the Union capture of Confederate Fort Donelson, the Union casualties came to 2,300 soldiers.
He's a Confederate general.
union
Rear Admiral David D. Porter commanded a flotilla of US navy ships that bombarded Fort Fisher in North Carolina. The bombardment helped to weaken the Confederate's positions and led to a Union military takeover of the fort.
He was a union general and later became the 18th president
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