Battle of Gettysburg

The total causalities for the three days of combat was about 51,000. Of that number approximately 3100 Union soldiers and 3900 Confederate soldiers were killed outright on the battle field. (Livermore, Numbers and Losses of the Civil War). The rest were wounded. Another 10,000 from both sides were captured. The breakdown per day is problematic given the confusion of the battle. The true count will never be known. As late as 2005 skeletal remains were still being found in the Culps Hill Area.

There was not a clear winner on Day One. One could argue a Confederate victory, but the Federal forces did seize the high ground and did not relinquish it. That proved to be the deciding factor in the battle.

It took 30,000 Confederates out of the fight.

It liberated the Mississippi, denying its valuable use to anyone except Union forces.

It enabled Grant and Sherman to join the big campaign at Chattanooga.

Lincoln Was Referring to the Freedom of the slaves when he Spoke of " A New Birth of Freedom "

Unlike most high school and even college history books, the American Civil War included more than 3 or 4 battles. There were probably 100 that would be classified as a "battle". It would take too much time to list all of them. Recomment you go to National Park Service website. It has a listing of battles by State and a brief synopsis of the battle and lists its commanders and number of troops, etc. But this is not all of them, as they omitted some that they did not consider to be a battle. Link: www.nps.gov

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870), the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy at the time of the American Civil War. Aboard Hartford, Farragut entered Mobile Bay, Alabama, 5 August 1864, in two columns, with armored monitors leading and a fleet of wooden ships following. When the lead monitor Tecumseh was demolished by a mine, the wooden ship Brooklyn stopped, and the line drifted in confusion toward Fort Morgan. As disaster seemed imminent, Farragut gave the orders embodied by these famous words. He swung his own ship clear and headed across the mines, which failed to explode. The fleet followed and anchored above the forts, which, now isolated, surrendered one by one. The torpedoes to which Farragut and his contemporaries referred would today be described as tethered mines.

U.S. Grant, who became General-in-Chief and ended the war by cancelling prisoner-exchange and waiting for the Confederates to run out of manpower.

Approximately 15,000 people died during the Battle of Liege. In total almost 30,000 people suffered injuries, death, or were captured.

yes it was the bloodiest conflict ever in America history

His major accomplishment was to stop Lee's invasion of the North at Gettysburg. Later, Grant assigned him the objective of remaining in constant contact with Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and not to allow them to rest or reform their ranks after each battle.

Short answer: The Confederate army went into Gettysburg looking for shoes.

Probably Vicksburg and Gettysburg - two Confederate defeats announced to a joyful Northen public on the same day - Fourth of July 1863.

Vicksburg ended the war in the West. Gettysburg ended Lee's amibitons to invade the North and threaten Washington DC.

The American Civil War was won in 1865, not 1861- that is when it was started. The North won the war, because they had more industrial capabilities and war supplies, and the South was mainly agricultural.

It was the speech Abraham Lincoln gave also known as the Gettysburg Address. It made the people realize that it was not just a collection of individual states; it was one unified nation.
Total Warfare: its best example was Sherman's March to the Sea, where his troops destroyed railroads, bridges, warehouses, crops, telegraph lines, all forms of infrastructure. It prevented sending reinforcements and supplies to Lee's troops, starving them out, and it served to weaken the morale of the serving troops, making them fear for the safety of their families back home.

The wealthy were often not drafted, but if one was drafted he could usually bribe an official with a drink and some money. The cost to hire a substitute was as much as $1000 (an enormous sum at a time when $500 was the average annual income). However, with the flat fee set at $300 for exemption from a single draft call, a substitute could have been cheaper in the long run.

The Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, fought July 1-3, 1863 marked the last time Lee would take the war into Union territory. It is also considered to be a major turning point of the US Civil War.

He wanted to make people forget the Emancipation Proclamation.

The phone number of the Great American Civil War Society is: 717-528-8761.

The Confederate losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg occurred at almost the same time. They tended to weaken the resolve of the Southern commanders. It was shown that the South could fight on Northern soil anymore at Gettysburg and the loss at Vicksburg showed the South that North could attack them with impunity.

At Sainte-Foy in April 1760, the French won a victory over the British during the last days of French and Indian War.

First of all, the British underestimated the ability of Americans to fight. Second, the Americans were on home turf. They knew their way around, and knew the best tactics for fighting were not simply standing out in the open. Third, the Americans had a cause to fight for. If they were to lose, they would not have just lost a war, they would have lost their freedom and everything they had been working for. Those are just a few... there are many more out there.

The first major battle of the US Civil War took place near the Bull Run stream near Manassas. In late Summer of 1861, Rebel forces under the command of generals Beauregard and Johnston led the Rebel army to a victory.

80,000 Union and 75,000 Confederate.