Battle of Gettysburg

Confederate Forces Killed: 2,592 Wounded: 12,709 Missing: 5,150 Total: 20,451

Union Forces Killed: 3,072 Wounded: 14,477 Missing: 5,434 Total: 22,983

Combined: 43,434

Source: "General Lee", General Fitzhugh Lee, p.302

The French and Indian War came first :)

They gave their lives so that the Union might be able to survive and stay together.

The Union army was nearly twice as large as the Confederate army in the US Civil War.

The confederate army had a strength of 1,064,000 troops while the Union Army had a strength of roughly 2,100,000 troops.

William "Bull" Nelson commanded the Union Forces against E. Kirby Smith in the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, which was probably the most lop-sided Southern victory of the US Civil War.

Gettysburgh,Pennsylvania.In late June, 1863, Robert E.Lee commenced an invasion of the north. The aim was to bring the fight to the north, and get the union troops to follow, and fight a defensive battle. However the armies stumbled across each other on July first, 1863. After two days of bitter fighting,the rebels had made some success, but the union troops still held out along Cemetary Ridge. Lee,hoping to split the federal army in two,sent 15,000 men on an attack on the union center.The troops,commanded by General George Pickett,advanced across the mile wide field under union cannon fire. This attacked failed,and Lee was forced to retreat back to Virginia.

What training there was usually amounted to "drill". This was practicing, over and over different types of movements. Most Civil War soldiers were infantrymen - foot soldiers. When the army was moving they usually went in "column" - usually four men wide, one row behind the other. These columns could stretch for miles along a road if the entire army was going somewhere. But when the enemy was encountered, the men had to get from "column" to "line". Both armies used linear tactics. The men lined up in two long rows, one behind the other. Every man had his place in the line, and to get them there in an orderly fasion from marching in column took practice. Once in line, standing side by side, there were various maneuvers the lines might be called on to do, and these had to be practiced, over and over.

There was also loading drill, going through the motions of loading their weapons, so it would be automatic under the stress of combat. Even with all the practice actual combat was incredibly, deafeningly noisy and disorienting. After the Battle of Gettysburg the Union Army picked up 21,000 rifle-muskets off the battlefield. About half of them were found to be double-loaded - the soldier had loaded the weapon but forgot to fire it, or thought he had but could not distinguish the sound of his own gun going off in the incredible noise, and then rammed another load down the barrel. This was very dangerous and likely to cause the gun to explode if he tried to fire after loading the second round. One musket had 21 charges rammed down the barrel.

Cavalry and artillery had their own forms of drill.

All branches drilled, usually morning and afternoon, when they were in a camp and had time.

It did not relate to any particular battle. It was a war-policy aimed at steadily squeezing the life out of the Confederacy.

The plan was put forward at the outset of the war by the outgoing General-in-Chief, the distinguished but too-elderly Winfield Scott, and instantly derided by the press as the 'Anaconda Plan' - much too slow for the short war that most people were expecting.

But in the end, the Union did adopt a war-plan that was very like it, when Grant ended the system of prisoner exchange, and conducted a war of attrition, knowing that the Confederates would not be able to replace their battle-losses.

The Greeks did because they had smaller and faster Greek ships (came right from my social studies book) hope i could help :)

not believed capable of dealing with armed conflict not believed having ability to learn warfare not believed they would be acceptable to white units believed to be politically unacceptable

No, he was the commander in cheif and not allowed to fight in the war.

Abraham Lincon did the gettysburg address at the dedication ceremony for the

Gettysburg National Cemetery.

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The goal of Confederate attacking troops (the divisions of Generals George Pickett, James Pettigrew and Isaac Trimble ) was that to break through the center of the Union line on the Cemetery Ridge.

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware…

his childrens names were.........

george b. mcclellan jr. (son)

mary mcclellan desprez(daughter)

george mcclellan (father)

elizebeth steinmetz brinton mcclellan ( mother)

Grant's tenacity was the biggest factor. After having a frontal assault beaten back, Grant decided to isolate the city and place it under siege. He realized that he had to prevent Confederate forces from reinforcing Vicksburg; so he attacked and drove off all the forces to the East of the city. Finally, he cut himself off from his supply lines and marched through the swamps and bayous to approach Vicksburg from the landward side while the Union navy river fleet bombarded it from the river. Once Vicksburg was surrounded, Grant bombarded the city and starved it into submission. It turned out to be a microcosm of how victory was gained over the entire South.

they ended up having to wash there own clothes

It wasn't written on a train. That is just a myth. Abraham Lincoln actually spent days preparing his speech. He wanted to make sure it was perfect, so there was no way Abe could have writeen his speech on a napkin in a train. He might have practiced it on a train, though.

President Lincoln meant the great task was winning the war and to bind the nation's wounds and to bring the rebelling states back into the Union. Lincoln knew this would not be easy. He saw first hand the terrible results of the Battle of Gettysburg. Healing wounds after a terrible Souther loss there would not be easy. He, however, was up to the task.

Another name for southern soldiers in the Civil War is "Johnny Rebs."

About 50,000 casualties total.

Union Casualties, 23,000

Confederate Casualties, 25,000

Ordered a draft of all men of military age in 1863.

The law was badly framed, because it allowed better-off young men to pay substitutes to serve in their place. These substitutes were supplied by unscrupulous brokers who were ready to send in men well below the required physical and mental standard, and this had a bad effect on Northern morale.

Recent immigrants also did not think they should have to serve in the army, and this caused riots in New York.

The Battle of Vicksburg in Mississippi split the Confederacy in two. In this conflict, Union soldiers led by Ulysses S. Grant drove the Confederates out of their stronghold in the fortress city of Vicksburg.