Confederate General Braxton Bragg had been carrying on operations in the Western theater. In 1862, he and General Kirby Smith were preparing to join forces for battles in Tennessee. In the last days of August, 1862, Bragg begins his offensive against Union General Buell in Tennessee.
General Joseph Hooker's addition of cavalry to the Union army helped to increase the speed of forces.
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The largest and costliest battle in North Carolina was the Battle of Bentonville, March 1865 between the Confederate forces of General Joseph Johnston and Union forces of General Sherman.
Savannah was occupied by Union forces on December 22. 1864. These forces were led by Civil War General Sherman.
Ulysses S. Grant was in command of Union forces at Petersburg.
General William Tecumseh Sherman led the Union forces.
The Union forces at Martinsburg were commanded by Brigadier General Julius White. Union troops there outnumbered the Union forces at Harper's Ferry. As Halleck and McClellan argued over Harper's Ferry, General White had received no orders from Washington DC. In that situation, General White decided to remain where he was in Martinsburg.
General George Pickett
U.S. Grant. He was rewarded by promotion to General-in-Chief of all the Union forces.
the Union general, General Meade
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