Battle of Gettysburg

He was a general in the confederat army that played an important role in the civil war and one of the most celebrated generals of the civil war.

George Gordon Meade

The garrison commander, John C. Pemberton, would certainly like to have known the answer to that question, as he was at the mercy of conflicting orders. The Confederate president told him his orders were to hold the town at all costs, while his local area commander, Joseph E. Johnston, was urging him to evacuate the place and save his army.

On the Union side, it was a simpler matter. Grant's aim was simply to capture Vicksburg and liberate the Mississippi.

Win at all costs.

Answer

The strategic intimidation, in which also Lee was a master. It consists in menacing the enemy capital or other vital objectives and by that means compel the opponent to cover them and follow the attacker's movements until become "clinched" and unable

to regain its own "freedom of movements".

In other words his main strategic task was the destruction of the enemy armies and only but as secondary option the seizing of positions, territories, towns etc.

This strategy was applied by Grant towards Lee's Army, starting from The Wilderness and led to the conclusive campaign of Petersburg.

Lee's tentative to dissolve his army from that "mortal embrace" by using general Early's little army attacking through the Shenandoah Valley and menacing Washington as a means to reduce the pressure on Richmond-Petersburg front had but little impact on Grant's operational plans and failed.

The Vicksburg campaign was another remarkable example of Grant's major strategy aiming to progressively reduce the enemy's operational ability inducing Confederate General Pemberton to shut himself up in Vicksburg, where the lost of both fortress and army was only a matter of few weeks.

The first thing that happend at Gettysburg is that the war was fighting and that people faught for schools to be desegregated. Also they faught for freedom.

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A good number of people died in the Civil Rights Movement. Here are a few names of white activists who were killed:

Rev. James Reeb, Viola Liuzzo, Samuel Younge, Johnathan Daniels, Rev. Jimmy Lee Jackson, Andrew Goodman and Michael Henry Schwerner are the ones I know of.

While The Army of Northern Virginia's main objective in the north was to force the north to appeal to peace negotiations, the fact is that Lee's Army was heading to Harrisburg, (PA, Capitol) to occupy it as part of the aforementioned strategy.

Gettysburg was not far east of Chambersburg, PA where it served as a rendezvous point for the Confederate Corps coming up. Gettysburg was rumored to have stores of shoes which the confederate soldiers were in need of and so General Henry Heth of AP Hills 3rd corps sent small detachments of troops there to investigate.

Once the opposing pickets noticed each other on June 30th the two army's made plans for battle and it began the next day.

The Battle of Gettysburg was seen as a great victory for the Union at the time but present reviews indicate it was a mediocre success. It provided the raw material for one of Lincoln's speaks (The Gettysburg Address). The main feature was that about 30,000 troops died in the battle. This represents a bout 15% of the population of the USA in 1863 or 1/3 of the male population.

The key to Meadeâ??s victory in the battle of Gettysburg was his aggressive decision to deploy and skillfully use his soldiers in a defensive mode. The use of his subordinates was also clever and commended after the battle.

The north had huge advantages in manpower and resources. North had about 13 million more people the the south. The North had more than double the railroad mileage of the south, almost all the naval power and shipyards belonged to North. Lastly they had President Abraham Lincoln.

No. George Washington died in 1799, while the Battle of Gettysburg took place in 1863. Besides, Washington was from Virginia, which during the Civil War was part of the Confederacy. The Union commander at Gettysburg was General George MEADE.

No. Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. John Buford had established defensive positions on three ridges to the west of the town, after which Maj. Gen. Henry Heth sent two brigades of the Army of Northern Virginia forward as a reconnaissance, meeting resistance from Buford's cavalry.

No, Lee and his army simply retreated back to Virginia. He would not surrender until April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House.

The Union Army won the Battle of Gettysburg from August 1st to August 3rd 1863. The Battle of Gettysburg had over 40,000 casualties.

The Union (under General George Meade) won, more or less, at Gettysburg. They were able to stop the southern invasion, but were not able to break up the Army of Northern Virginia.

The Union (under General Ulysses S Grant) won at Vicksburg. The same day that Lee decided to retreat from Gettysburg, July 4, 1863, the garrison at Vicksburg surrendered to Grant. This battle was a clear victory for the Union forces and was extremely important in the eventual victory of the war.

It was a speech given on the occasion of the opening of national cemetery. It was given by Abraham Lincoln on Nov 19 th, 1863 and is renowned for being the most famous speech in history to say nothing of any consequence. The address is interesting in one respect- it is a nice example of political hypocrisy. After stamping down brutally (and probably illegally) on the southern states' desires for self government Lincoln ends by referring to government by the people for the people. What he really meant was government of the southern states by the northern states.

During the American Civil War, the four Union States that allowed slavery were: Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland. By the end of the Civil War, only Delaware and Kentucky continued allowing slavery, until it was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

This question is very vague. But, on July 3, 1863, Brigadier General Lewis Armistead's Virginians of Major General George E. Pickett's Division broke the Union Line at the Angle on Cemetery Ridge, just north of the Clump of Trees. "The Angle" refers to a low stonewall which runs in a north-south direction from the Abraham Brian farm, then juts west about 40 yards before turining 90 degress and continuing in a southerly direction. On July 3, 1863, this low stonewall was occupied by Brigadier General Alexander Webb's Brigade of the 1st Division of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock's 2nd Corps of the Army of the Potomac. The salient of the angle was occupied by the 71st Pennsylvania Infantry who is also known as the "California Regiment." On the left of the 71st PA was the 72nd PA, followed by the 69th PA, which was located directly in front of the Clump of Trees and in the rear of the 69th PA was the 106th PA. Webb's Brigade supported Battery A of the 4th United States Artillery which was commanded by Lt. Alonzo Cushing. When Brigadier General Armistead's men approached the stonewall, they noticed a 200 foot gap in the wall because the 72nd PA had broke from their position, leaving Cushing's guns and the flanks of the 71st and 69th PA exposed. Armistead balanced his blakc felt hat upon his sword as he led his men over the stonewall and into the Union Lines. Armistead was mortally wounded, allegedly placing a hand on one of Cushing's last working guns. This question is very vague. But, on July 3, 1863, Brigadier General Lewis Armistead's Virginians of Major General George E. Pickett's Division broke the Union Line at the Angle on Cemetery Ridge, just north of the Clump of Trees. "The Angle" refers to a low stonewall which runs in a north-south direction from the Abraham Brian farm, then juts west about 40 yards before turining 90 degress and continuing in a southerly direction. On July 3, 1863, this low stonewall was occupied by Brigadier General Alexander Webb's Brigade of the 1st Division of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock's 2nd Corps of the Army of the Potomac. The salient of the angle was occupied by the 71st Pennsylvania Infantry who is also known as the "California Regiment." On the left of the 71st PA was the 72nd PA, followed by the 69th PA, which was located directly in front of the Clump of Trees and in the rear of the 69th PA was the 106th PA. Webb's Brigade supported Battery A of the 4th United States Artillery which was commanded by Lt. Alonzo Cushing. When Brigadier General Armistead's men approached the stonewall, they noticed a 200 foot gap in the wall because the 72nd PA had broke from their position, leaving Cushing's guns and the flanks of the 71st and 69th PA exposed. Armistead balanced his blakc felt hat upon his sword as he led his men over the stonewall and into the Union Lines. Armistead was mortally wounded, allegedly placing a hand on one of Cushing's last working guns.

Yes, the Fourth Offensive (May 7 - July 4, 1863) against Vicksburg was a decisive Union Victory .

Emancipation Proclimation, passed by President Abraham Lincoln after the civil war, announced that all slaves in the won territories in the Confederate States were freed, and they called it "Juneteenth".

The Battle of Gettysburg was called as such by both sides in the American Civil War. The battle took place from July 1 to July 3, 1863, and resulted in a Union victory.

Union casualties were approximately 10,000 Union soldiers were killed or wounded out of 62,000, and 1300 killed - 7,000 wounded out of 50,000 Confederate soldiers.

Only that it was one of those 'If's'

It could have been an important victory for the Union under Burnside, but he was delayed crossing the river - the pontoons hadn't arrived - and Lee and Jackson were given time to occupy unassailable high ground.

The doomed battle was followed by the demoralising 'mud march' (poor Burnside was even unlucky with the weather) and the army was given a new commander Joe Hooker.

He too had a chance to defeat Lee, but the latter General wrong-footed him badly at the next battle, Chancellorsville.