Battle of Gettysburg

African Americans entered the civil war for many resons. freed slaves sometimes duisguised themselves so that they could fight for other slaves freedom, and i think it wasnt until the emancipation proclomation that African Americans were allowed to join the war. on the other side, slaves were sometimes (although very rarly) forced to fight for their masters on the confederate side.

In the summer of 1863, the convergence of the Southern invaders and the Northern defenders at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, occurred mainly by accident. Given orders to avoid any serious engagement with the enemy, forward units of the Confederate force sought to enter the small town of Gettysburg simply in order to secure supplies. Stopped by a small force of Union troops (at the forward edge of their own army, still located some miles to the east and south), the Confederates nevertheless engaged -- and thus the general battle began.

The commander of the Federal Army of the Cumberland at the Second battle of Murfreesboro was William S. Rosecrans. This was the second and most famous battle of Murfreesboro and was also called the Battle of Stones River.

The First Battle of Murfreesboro was fought between Nathan Bedford Forrest and a Federal Cavalry force under Thomas Turpin Crittenden. It was a clear Confederate victory.

Abraham Lincoln gave a speech. There was a major Civil War battle that the South lost.

The Union army had 85,000 men at Gettysburg.

The Union was able to avoid more casualties. The Union was able to hold the line and eventually win.

The Confederacy surrendered immediately.

The Confederacy had to take a defensive position

The Battle of Gettysburg is considered the turning point of the Civil War because it was the first major defeat suffered by General Robert E. Lee. Lee's army suffered very heavy casualties. Approximately a third of his army was killed, captured, or wounded during the battle, 23,231 out of 71,699 men. Lee's army never recovered from the defeat. It was never as large or as powerful as it had been before the battle and it was forced to fight on the defensive for the rest of the war.

The draft law was used to force people between ages 21 to 45 to join the army unless they could pay the amount of money needed to get out of being drafted. Another way to refuse to join the army is to supply the army with another willing person, so you dont have to go. :)

The North had very few obstacles at Gettysburg. It seized the high ground. It held a position that forced the enemy into an ill-advised attack. It fought along interior lines. It had greater numbers, more equipment, high morale, fighting on its own turf. The only element against it was that it did not arrive with overwhelming force on the first day.

The Confederate Army never went North again.

The Union had the industrial capacity to support its troops.

The Union had the Naval strength to blockade the South's ports.

The Union had the manpower to win a war of attrition.

The Battle of Atlanta, part of the American Civil War, occurred on July 22, 1864. The result of the battle was a victory for the Union.

No. The first real action blacks saw was during Grant's drive on Richmond, one year later.

The North won the Civil War due to advantages economically(factories that created boundless resources, not solely dependent on crops, strong work force due to higher population density), better military leaders(Grant, Sherman), unity among the people(conflict with states rights in the south after succession), strong leadership on behalf of President Lincoln(creating black troops of freed Negroes), the South's failure in gaining foreign intervention, breakdown of slavery(underground railroad and other resistance movements), which led to the souths economic failure.

The US people whose morale was drained to the point of letting the CSA have independence and the dead solders of the battle

Robert e lee was gone before ho died. he now haunts little kids that research him

They thought it would be a short, glorious war with low casualties. That is why they rejected Winfield Scott's plan to wait till the blockade had starved and weakened the Confederacy, before moving in and attacking it.

About 75,000 Confederate soldiers of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and 85,000 to 90,000 men in General George G. Mead's Army of the Potomac fought at Gettysburg.
The battle was fought between Union and Confederate forces in Gettysburg, PA, from July 1st through July 3rd, 1863.

Following the disaster of Pickett's Charge on July 3rd, Gen. was heard to say "This was all my fault"

President Lincoln was upset at General Meade because of how he had let confederate leader Robert E. Lee escape. on the night of July 3rd, Lee and his men retreated into the fog. the next morning they had escaped over the river. When Lincoln had found out he said to Meade in a letter regarding Lee - "He was within your easy grasp, and to have closed upon him would, in connection with our other late successes, have ended the war. As it is, the war will be prolonged indefinitely."

The Civil War effectively ended slavery in the United States.

The Battle of Gettysburg has taken place in the North, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The northern leader, General George Meade, led 85,000 men. And Confederates leader was General Robert E. Lee who led 75, troops. The battle took place from July 1-3, 1863. Lee was victories in battles, he decided to push the North in Maryland to invade Pennsylvania. In the process of gathering supplies when the North and South met. General Ewell's men looking for SHOES! They ran into Meade's men. On July 2nd, 65,000 Confederates men gathered around Gettysburg preparing to fight against 85,000 Union soldiers. Lee thought that the Rebels' had to take the "heights".

Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia began the retreat from Gettysburg on the evening of July 4, 1863.

The first general officer killed at the Battle of Gettysburg was Lt. General John Reynolds (I Corp Commander, Army of the Potomac, USA) while forming the line of Merdith's Brigade 500 yards west of the the Lutheren Seminary. He was shot by a Confederate sharpshooter within 10 minutes of Union Infantry arriving on the field.