Battle of Gettysburg

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

NEW RESPONDENT

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.

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.