Battle of Gettysburg

In the short term, Lee retreated in good order to Virginia and Meade failed to conduct a vigorous pursuit. In the Long term, Lee was never able to mount another invasion of the North, and went on a permanent defensive in Virginia, shifting the initiative permanently to the North, in the Eastern Theater of Operations.

General Bragg was the over all commander of the Army of the Tennessee. However, General Longstreet's Corps had been sent from Virginia and arrived on the eve of the Battle of Chickamauga on 17 Sept 1863, which was only a few months after the loss at Gettysburg. General Longstreet had given an order for General Hood to attack at the same time that General Wood shifted his men that left a hole in the Union line. This resulted in a break-through of the Union line and a collapse of the entire Union right wing.

This most famous and most important Civil War Battle occurred over three hot summer days, July 1 to July 3, 1863, around the small market town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It began as a skirmish but by its end involved 160,000 Americans.

The north did not like the south because of their views on slavery. The civil war was fought over whether slavery was right, the south looked at slavery as a necessary thing, but the north viewed it inhumane.

If one studies their history, it shows that most slaves originally were brought here through northern ports by northern slave traders, then sold to southern plantation owners.

So in fact, the North's attitude smacked of relevant hypocrisy.

Major General Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker succeeded General Burnside as the commander of the Army of the Potomac. Hooker was the third general Lincoln had as the leader of the North's premier army.

The Battle of Gettysburg is considered the turning point of the war because on May or July 1-3,1863 for the first time, the Union defeated Robert E. Lee's seemingly immortal troops. The Battle of Gettysburg was a mistake, the Union troops and Confederates accidentally ran into each other. For 1-2 days the South seemed to be winning the battles, but since Lee's shortage of cavalry (he split up his forces before the battle) he had no way of knowing Union positions, and so his assaults did not work as they were planned.

He thought that the BARTLE DOG BOILER was too strong.

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Longstreet did not believe in the possibility of a successful attack against the center of Federal line on the Cemetery Ridge.

Nobody, in his opinion, could frontally break through the enemy lines , under the terrible fire of rifled arms, because the outcome would have been a second Malvern Hill or, better said, a second but reversed Fredericksburg .

Protests and violence

The drafts lead to riots.

Also desertions and bounty-jumping.

They feared and respected him. Also, they admired his ability to fight them so audaciuosly.

The Battle of Gettysburg was a defeat for the Army of Northern Virginia. The Southern press, its people and leaders understood this and were sorely disappointed. The lost battle however, did not cause enough harm to keep Robert E. Lee from reorganizing his army and prepare for more battlefield action. On a logistical and military view, the South was not harmed enough to tilt the war in any particular manner.

There are several significant battles of the civil war. One of them was Vicksburg, Mississippi. The north captured one the most important cities on the Mississippi effectivly closing it off. The second is Gettysburg also known as the turning point of the American Civil war.

It would be fair to say that the first armed conflict that led to the US Civil War was in Charleston, South Carolina. Two reasons standout, one is that US President Lincoln had to believe it was an armed conflict, however, if he thought it was a war, he would not have called for only 75,000 volunteers to enlist for three months. Clearly he expected this rebellion to swiftly be ended and never reach the proportions of a war.

Gettysburg is in southeastern Pennsylvania.

The first major battle was The Wilderness, followed by a relentless string of costly battles for the Union. However, Grant never retreated or withdrew his troops to the safety of Washington for the rest of the war.

Gettysburg is the town in Pennsylvania where the battle took place.

It was Lee's second and last failed attempt to invade Pennsylvania.

It was on the same day as the relief of Vicksburg, far away on the Mississippi, which ended the war in the West.

Together they made a joyous July the Fourth anouncement and celebration.

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After the end of the war, instead of legislating to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves, the southern legislature made a set of laws called the Black Codes that undermined the rights of blacks and kept them under the authority of whites.

The South had only to avoid losing the war.

The North had to conquer as much of the South as was necessary to put down the insurgency, which turned out to be quite a lot of it.

The constitution has a clause that states that any rights not granted by the states to the federal government are reserved for the states. There is no language that I'm aware of that grants states the right to secede; the issue is not addressed in that document. A lot of things were left out of it with the idea that they could be resolved as needed.

A secession crisis occurred in the New England states during the War of 1812, and there might have been some noise about it during Jefferson's Embargo about 1809.

I don't see how depletion of natural resources was even an issue; there was a whole continent to plunder and they had barely scratched the surface.

The North had about three times the population of the South, if you didn't count the slaves.

The South's goal was to establish themselves as an independent republic. The North's goal was to maintain the union and, later on, abolish the institution of slavery. Michael Montagne

The South's aim in seceding was to develop an independent republic - the Confederacy. Their war aims were to defend themselves, their land and their way of life (slavery!)

The south fought the war because they believed each state had rights that were guaranteed by the constitution. Southerners were already beginning to look at abolishing slavery, since 90 per cent owned no slaves. One of the rights in the constitution is the right to leave the union if a state decides to. The first state to threaten to leave was Massachusetts in the early 1800's. The north decided to invade because of a growing population, and had depleted most of their natural resources. The slavery issue was really not the main reason for the war.

Most sources place him at around 5' 10" -5' 10-1/2"

Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807 and died on October 12, 1870. Robert E. Lee would have been 63 years old at the time of death or 208 years old today.

4,500 soilders

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The Confederate casualties were: 1,500 killed and wounded and 4,462 captured.

Those of the Union were: 387 killed, 2,562 wounded and 112 missing.

Answer Gettysburg was General Lee's second attempt to carry the war into the Northern states and it failed. Prior to this, Lee's Confederate army was always on the move. After Gettysburg, the fighting in Virginia developed into a siege warfare that resembled the trench warfare of World War 1. Also the battles in the West were not going well, either. The Union army had obtained most of their major objectives and began their advance onto Atlanta---the largest industrial Southern city outside of Virginia. The South was fighting a purely defensive war.

In the Battle of Gettysburg. The North lost about 23,000 soldiers, and the South lost about 20,400 soldiers.