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☆☆☆☆☆The North's military strategy in the Civil war was to engage in total war. Total war involves complete destruction of the opposing force and their resources. The South's military strategy was to prolong the war making it costly to the North in hopes them eventually stopping it.
Don Carlos Buell led the battle of shiloh~
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General Ulysses Grant's mother was Hannah Simpson Grant.
During both battles of Bull Run (1861 and 1862) as it was known in the North, and Manassas as it was known in the South, Abraham Lincoln was President of the Union (the North) and Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederacy (the South).
The Union prevented the Confederacy from taking control of the West
Sounds like Robert E. Lee, who turned down the top job, because he would not draw his sword against his home-state of Virginia.
He was certainly anti-secession.
As for claims that he was anti-slavery, these are controversial.
He was accused of brutality to the slaves he inherited from his father-in-law Custis. But Custis had left a legacy of trouble by promising his slaves that they would be freed on his death, without explaining that it would take a couple of years to administer the will.
The angry slaves tried to go on strike, and Lee felt he no option but to bring out the whip.
