Battle of Gettysburg

The Confederate General Sidney Johnston, rated as the best soldier in America, killed early on.

T.J. "Stonewall" Jackson, the other half of the unbeatable Lee-Jackson partnership.

The Confederate General Earl van Dorn, the only notable commander killed not in battle but in a duel.

The Union General McPherson, killed at Atlanta, described as 'something more than a great soldier, a great man'.

There were a few women, particularly in the South, who disguised themselves as men and enlisted in the army.Women took part in the civil war by helping cure the soldiers from their injures

they had roles as nurses, spies, and they fought in the war.

That a new, unified nation, stronger than before, will arise from the ashes of the conflict, as a result of the sacrifices made by the men who died for it, and that, in the end, democracy will never die.

You have misquoted Mr. Lincoln, Abraham, that is. He said, "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here." He was speaking at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863 just after the Union had won the battle of Gettysburg. This battle took place from July 1, 1863 through July 3, 1863 and is seen as the turning point of the war. Union Gereal Meade and his forces defeated Robert E Lee and his forces. 51,000 men lost their lives in the process. It is they to whom Lincoln refers when he says, "it (the world) can never forget what they did here." By saying what he says, Lincoln is redefining the purpose of the War. Here is his entire speech. "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

The unfinished work he was referring to at the time was the Civil War because it was still being fought.

Land mines were invented in the 13th century, where there are records of its use by Song Dynasty China against the Mongols. The invention is attributed to Lou Qianxia.

Some sources report that the 3rd century Prime Minister Zhuge Liang of the Kingdom of Shu in China invented a landmine-type device in the third century, although this is purely speculative.

The earliest confirmed use of a land mine dates to 1277 AD in Song Dynasty China, when it was used by the Chinese against an assault of the Mongols, who were besieging a city in northern China. The invention of this detonated "enormous bomb" was credited to one Lou Qianxia of the 13th century.

The 14th century Chinese text of the 'Huolongjing, which was the first to describe hollow cast iron cannonball shells filled with gunpowder, was also the first to describe the invention of the land mine in greater detail than references found in texts written beforehand.

The first modern explosive anti-personnel mines were likely those used by the Confederate army in 1862, in the US Civil War. Their general, Gabriel J. Rains, had used similar explosives as booby traps in 1840 during the Seminole Wars.

Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville -APEX

Second Bull Run (Manassas)

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When General Grant took command, the Union Army was still exchanging prisoners of war. This allowed each side to return their men to their country to fight again. Grant knew that the Union had more men and could produce more weapons than the Confederate. So he ended the prisoner exchange. This of course resulted in more men held in prisoner of war camps and creating problems for both sides, resulting in many deaths in these camps---both in the North and in the South. Grant also pressed his troops to stay on the attack. In some battles, his casualties were very high but he still knew that the Confederates could not replace their losses as easily as the Union could. Grant used General Sherman to force the war onto the civilian population and the industrial centers of the Confederacy. This was a new concept to most commanders. War was a duel between armies on the field of battle. The destruction of the industrial sites prevented an enemy from arming his troops and conducting war. Custermen

He was upset because they had just won the 1st real, (Antietam was claimed as a victory, but was really a draw), undoubted victory, but instead of following Lee & mercilessly doing every thing that he could to destroy the Army of Virginia while it was far from home, he let them go without any real pursuit. It lengthened the war by years, it is very possible that had Meade been more ruthless, the war could have been over in months, instead of the 2 more years it took.

Not especially, but he never ran from a fight and he had total support from Lincoln down to the lowest private. He knew that his forces outnumbered the South's by more than 3 to 1 so he used a war of attrition to wear down the Confederates.

For large celestial bodies, roundness is a product of gravity.

When the leftover elements from the sun's creation scattered throughout what is now our solar system, individual particles started attracting each other together with gravity. As more and more particles gathered, they compressed themselves into a shape which allowed them to occupy as small of a space as possible. (due to gravity) In essence, a sphere. Another way of saying this is that the earth's mass reached a point (as it was growing) that its internal gravitational forces overcame any other rigid forces that might have kept the earth in a non-spherical shape.

it depends on what war you are talking about. Germany, Italy, Russia, France and England fought in ww2, the UK and Argentina fought the Falklands war and so it goes on.

The Battle of Gettysburg was one of the few battles where almost both entire armies were engaged in the Civil War. There were 93,921 (recorded) Union troops and 71,699 (recorded) confederates were engaged at Gettysburg. About 46,286 casualties took place, leaving 70,866 soldiers from the Union, and 48,468 Confederate soldiers.

To capture Richmond, the Confederate capital.

The Anaconda Plan was the Union army's strategic goal in the summer of 1861.

The town of Gettysburg was founded in 1786 and named for Samuel Gettys, a tavern owner that first settled there.

The Gettysburg National Cemetery was dedicated on November 19, 1863.

The most recent movie titled Gettysburg! was released in 1990.

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The casualties were :

11,116 dead and wounded and 5676 prisoners and missing for the Union;

10,746 dead and wounded and 2018 prisoners and missing for the Confederacy.

Because it was the first shot in Grant's Overland campaign - and the first time that Lee was facing a General of his own calibre.

However, the question asserts something that is not correct. The Battle of the Wilderness was by no means the end of the Confederacy, nor were Lee's victories at an end. Although the Battle of the Wilderness ended inconclusively, the Union forces suffered horrifying casualties (18,000 in 3 days). The next battle, around Spotsylvania, was a Confederate victory. Lee's forces were badly outnumbered but drove back Grant's Army and again drew stunning casualties. A few weeks later, Grant attacked Lee's forces at Cold Harbor and again suffered staggering losses while being driven back. However, Lee's forces were very badly depleted by these three battles and replacements were not possible. Lee was never again able to have a decisive victory over Grant's forces.

General Meade called a meeting of his top generals around midnight just before day three of the Gettysburg battle. The meeting was among twelve generals to discuss the next day's plans. There the chance to not engage Lee, however, all the generals agreed that they wanted to fight on day three. Meade took the opportunity to explain his idea that Lee would attempt a frontal assault of some type in that Lee's previous flanking attacks on both of Meade's army had failed. Meade specifically told General John Gibbon that lee would attack the center of the Union army and that meant the attack would be aimed at Gibbons corps.

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The Union soldiers found Lee's battle plans at a Confederate camp and McClellan used the information to plan a successful counterattack. The loss at Antietam prevented Lee's advance forward to Washington D.C. It was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War and of American history with Union casualties more than 12,000 and the Confederacy more than 13,000.

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