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Earn +20 ptsQ: Taking over command of the Richmond forces in 1862 after General Johnston was injured defending the southern capital, this leader was once offered the command of all Union troops?
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Southern commander at Battle of Shiloh?
Gen. A. S. Johnston was the southern general
Who took over command of the Richmond forces in 1862 after General Johnston was injured?
Robert E. Lee
How did general Lee prevent union forces from taking Richmond?
By defending Petersburg throughout a nine-month siege.
After Lee was unable to save Richmond or unite with Johnston he did what?
In 1865, after General Lee was unable to defend Richmond successfully, he sought to escape from the advancing Union forces by rushing west for a meet-up with troops under the command of General Johnston. Failing this, however, and being trapped by the Union troops commanded by General Grant, he arranged to surrender his force, thereby ending the campaign and, as it turned out, the Civil War as a whole.
Who was the leader of south in the Battle of Shiloh?
General Sidney Johnston (no relation to Joseph E. Johnston), regarded as the best General in the South. He was killed in this battle.
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