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☆☆☆☆☆The Confederacy lost at Glorieta Pass and had to walk back to Texas.
* The confederates retreated to Texas and never again threatened union control of the Southwest
the public was shocked and horrified by the large number of dead and injured. (novanet)
To attempt to resolve the dispute between the North and South regarding slavery, Congress convened on December 3, 1849. The result of this convention was the Compromise of 1850.
The Compromise of 1850 allowed the New Mexico and Utah territories to choose, in the future, to become slave states. The South avoided adopting the Wilmot Proviso. A stronger Fugitive Slave Act was passed by Congress.
He called for additional troops.
Port Hudson, Mississippi
Congressional Democrats
The south generally didn't make as much supplies and arms as the north because the north had the industrial revolution which allowed things to be made faster and cheaper instead of having to have each handmade by a gunsmith. Also, the south around that time were busy growing and selling cotton on large plantations.
Jackson was successful at outmaneuvering a larger Union force and nearly destroyed it
That was Robert E. Lee.
Like many senior Virginians, he opposed secession.
Whether he opposed slavery is more doubtful. He had had to take two years' leave to sort out his father-in-law's estate, which included many slaves. The old man had unwisely told them that they would be freed on his death. But they could not be freed until the disposal of the estate had been completed, and they became very rebellious.
Lee decided to make an example of the ringleaders, and his treatment of them was quite brutal, though not abnormal by the standards of the time.
His beliefs about slavery seem to be equivocal, and he has been claimed as a figurehead by both sides of the debate.
That African Americans be accepted into the Union military
Allowed African-Americans to participate as war laborers and soldiers
A set of Lee's orders, which had been dropped in the field by a careless Confederate officer.
These orders revealed that Lee's divisions were widely separated, and that McClellan could destroy them, one by one.
Unfortunately for McClellan, there was a Confederate spy in his camp, who was able to alert Lee of what had happened, and Lee was able to concentrate his troops. Still, McClellan's position was favourable, and if he'd moved fast enough, he could still have destroyed Lee's army.
Instead, Lee was able to escape back to Virginia - for which McClellan was finally removed from command.
the deaths of nearly 25,000 Union and Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
His colleagues said that this would make it look like a desperate gesture - trying to assert a moral war-mission to take people's minds off defeat. He ought to wait for a Unon victory, in order to carry conviction.
In addition and of great importance was that they did not want Lincoln's emancipation to cause problems in the "Border States" where slavery existed and were not included in the final emancipation issued on January 1, 1863.
