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Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg was a three-day battle (July 1 to 3, 1863) that was considered to be the turning point in the American Civil War. It stands as the greatest battle in America.
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What did general lee accomplish at the Battle of Gettysburg?
He accomplished one of the 'nearlys' of the War - he nearly occupied Pennsylvania and Maryland, from where he wiuld have been able to threaten Washington D.C.
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How did Henry Light Horse Harry Lee die?
Light Horse Harry ended his days n a very sad way. This true hero of the Revolutionary Army, and also the man who had introduced the Resolution into the Continental Congress which led to the Declaration of Independence ("these colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states") had by the time of the War of 1812 become thought of by the ignorant mob as "pro-British". He had a friend who was a newspaper publisher in Baltimore, who published articles and editorials critical of the US government during that war. The publisher was threatened with mob violence. Lee armed himself and went to help his friend defend the newspaper office. Accounts differ, but either the mob broke into the office, or Lee and the publisher were jailed and the mob broke into the jail, but either way Lee received a very severe beating, from the effects of which he never recovered and which eventually led to his death. Lee was a terrible businessman, always very much in debt, all his schemes failures, which meant he was either frequently in debtors prison (jailed for debt until his creditors were paid), or threatened with it. To escape this, after he recovered somewhat from the beating Lee went by boat to the islands of the Caribbean. He soon realized he was dying, and he wanted to see his family again before he went. He boarded a boat and headed north, but his condition grew worse. The captain of the boat put in at the dock of a plantation on one of the sea islands off the coast of Georgia, the home of his old friend from the Continental Army, Nathaniel Greene, the "Fighting Quaker". Greene had already been dead for a number of years but his widow, Kitty, was still there. Lee was carried into her house, and into an upstairs bedroom, and never came out alive again. It took him two weeks to die, in horrible screaming agony. He was buried on the plantation. As a young engineer officer his son Robert worked on Fort Pulaski near Savannah in the early 1830s for several years, but never had the chance to ever visit his father's grave, until the first year of the Civil War, when Robert was in charge of coastal fortifications and defenses in the Carolinas and Georgia.
Which Union officer is known for advocating total war on the South?
William Tecumseh Sherman was the general who theorized and applied the Total War on the South.
How did someone get killed From the Fredricksburg battle?
close quarters quarrels were ended with a sword or bowie knife stabbing, whereas more violent casualties were more common like injury as a result of a bombshell explosion or a direct musket/rifle shot.
What general thought up the cannon trick during the battle at Gettysburg?
Major General Henry Jackson Hunt.
What were signs that the south was exhausted after major battlefield losses in 1863?
Lee's attempted invasion of the North in June 1863 was largely to try and plunder the prosperous state of Pennsylvania for food and supplies, including the contents of a boot-and-shoe factory near Gettysburg.
Hi, Simi....Ashton Powell Johnson was my great uncle (my great grandfather was his youngest brother). We have a few photographs of him, plus dozens of letters he wrote during the war. They are marvelous, beautifully written and include drawings he did for his youngest brothers. One in particular is all about a dream he had that he was back in St. Louis, kissing a lovely young woman named Annie. He then states that he work up, and walked around mad all day because it was just a dream! He was actually 18 when he died, and was a very handsome young man who had nightmares that he would be shot in the head. He always said he could surviving anything but that. During the Battle of Atlanta, he was shot in the head my a Union sharpshooter- his horse Waffles came back riderless. I don't think the family ever really recovered from his loss, certainly not his mother Eliza Branch Johnson, nor his brother Eddie.
AnswerHi SimiI struck pay dirt!
http://members.aol.com/rechtman/faq-army.thm
The above leads you to all war vets, just click on Civil War Vets and they will lead you down the right path. Unless a famous General, etc., looking for an individual name is difficult, but the is a great help.
Here's another web addy that will teach you how to look up your Civil War Ancestry.
www.ancestry.com/learn/library/articleaspx?article=9284
Hope this helps you. ASHTON JohnsonAgainst his family's wishes he left St. Louis to fight for the South. I think he was only 19, and was killed during Sherman's march to Atlanta. I did not know his middle name was Powell. Hope I have the right Ashton Johnson.
Sounds lke Braxton Bragg
What food did they eat at war?
Probably rice, berries, and fruits and vegetables that they had available because it was a long time ago, and you can't really think of much things that they've ate. Although there were women cocking for them at war time, but I'm not really sure what they've cocked because I'm answering you from myself, not from a book or anything! :)
Spotsylvania and Coldharbour.
Why was the battle of Gettysburg a turning point in the civil war?
Many historians in the past exaggerated the importance of Gettysburg because it had the highest casualty count, was fought in the East near to major media outlets, and caused a panic in the highly populated city centers. In fact, the true turning point took place at the same time when Grant took Vicksburg, closing off the Mississippi, and completing the second phase of the Anaconda Plan.
How was the anaconda supposed to help the union win the war?
by conquering those parts the union will gain control
Slavery. They felt it was about to be abolished and wanted to keep it.
You will hear lots of revisionist history saying it was because of "tariffs" or "states' rights". All of that is nonsense. Almost immediately after the Civil War ended, Southern sympathizers started a misinformation campaign, talking about a "Lost Cause" and how the noble Southerners only wanted to protect states rights from an oppressive Federal government. It's the rare case of history being "written by the loser".
However, if you look at the secession bills each seceding state passed, they actually opposed states' rights- "states rights" refers to the idea that it's preferable for states to make their own laws than for the federal government to do it. The Southern lawmakers, in their secession bills, cited laws passed in other, primarily Northern, states that they didn't like. For example, they were upset that Maine passed a law making it legal for blacks to vote there. They were upset that New York passed a law saying it was illegal to bring slaves there from another state. In each bill, they explicitly state they are quitting because they want to keep slavery- Mississippi even cited a form of white supremacy, saying that it's unnatural for blacks to be equal to whites!
And then the short-lived Constitution of the Confederate States made a point of saying that slavery would always be legal, even if new states were later added-the USA had, in preceding years, traditionally tried to keep the number of slave and free states about equal- see, for example, the Missouri Compromise.
Rather than just learning to live with the Northern laws, and with Abraham Lincoln becoming president in spring of 1861 (he was known for being an abolitionist- although he had famously stated he would rather allow slavery to continue than let the Union break apart), they chose to try to quit altogether, starting with South Carolina, which had already made threats to do so in the past (as in the Nullification Crisis of the late 1820's).
And, to settle the whole thing, there was a very nasty war, and then in 1869, the US Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Whitethat secession is illegal.
Which confederate general quote as saying you have fought your corps to a frazzle?
Gordon reportedly told Lee, "I have fought mycorps to a frazzle."
Where was General George Meade during Battle of Gettyburg?
He was the victorious Union commander on the spot.
What major mistake did the confederacy make in the Battle of Shiloh?
The usual answer is that the Confederates erred in allowing themselves to be stopped and diverted by the effort to clear Yankee holdouts from a patch of woods called the "Hornet's Nest". The thinking is that the Confederates should have continued to sweep across the battlefield and follow through on their success, and then returned to mop up the Hornet's Nest later.
But recent research has thrown this supposition into some doubt. Analysis of Confederate regimental losses during the battle seems to indicate that much less attention was paid to eliminating the Hornet's Nest than postwar accounts of the battle had led historians to believe.
I would say a much more serious error was the battlefield formation adopted by the Rebels. In every other major battle of the war, the armies of both sides fought with the corps of their armies side by side. This gave each corps commander responsibility for a certain portion of the field, and he had his troops all within reach, some in the front lines, and some behind to reinforce where needed.
The Rebel plan for Shiloh was devised by General Beauregard. His plan had the army's three corps one behind the other, with each extending all the way across the battlefield. This was too wide an area for a corps commander to oversee. Worse, once the front corps encountered the enemy and halted to fight, the second and third lines came up behind and the troops all became jumbled together, and the situation was beyond the ability of any commander to control. General Johnston realized this fatal defect in the plan drawn up by his second in command, Beauregard, but by the time he did it was too late to change Beauregard's arrangements. Then when Johnston was killed, the "excitable" Beauregard was unable to cope with the confusion engendered by his own plan.
What are the names of the union regiments in the Battle of Gettysburg?
See Link that lists the Union Order of Battle Go here. It gives all of the states and the regiments that fought: http://gburginfo.brinkster.net/AOP-regiments.htm
How many US states were admitted to the union in 1788?
Wisconsin entered the Union on the 28th of May 1848 as the 30th State.
