Battle of Gettysburg

he died because they shot him at the first battle of Gettysburg

Lincoln said that the dead soldiers had consecrated the ground and his mere words could do nothing to hallow it any more.

The Confederates attempted to capture the high ground on the flanks.

The Union troops were led by U.S. Grant, with Divisional commanders that included Sherman, McClernand and both the Wallaces, one of them the author of Ben-Hur. General Don Carlos Buell arrived with reinforcements before dawn on the second day.

The Confederates were led by Sidney Johnston (no relation to Joe Johnston), rated by many as the best General in the South. He was killed in this battle. His second-in-command was P.G.T. Beauregard, who took over.

In 1863, during the American Civil War, General Robert E. Lee marched his army in the vicinity of Gettysburg with the goal of conducting a disruptive invasion of the North that would accomplish several goals. First, he intended to take the fighting to Northern lands. Second, he sought to give Virginia landholders a respite from the previous campaigns. Third, he hoped to achieve a decisive victory over the North's armies and perhaps threaten or even take Washington, D.C.

Vicksburg

Yes - though he was actually G.G. (George Gordon) Meade.

Joe Hooker was fired a few weeks after his terrible defeat at Chancellorsville, and replaced by Meade. It was only a few days before Gettysburg, and this victory went to Meade's eternal credit.

He continued to command the Army of the Potomac till the end of the war, although his chief, U.S. Grant, travelled alongside him in a mobile HQ.

Some say Meade, not Grant, should have taken the surrender of Lee at Appomattox.

Ulysses S. Grant (not his given name at birth) was a military hero for the North.

Abraham Lincoln was president of the US at the time.

A Northern general named Sherman very effectively utilized the "Slash and Burn" technique, laying Atlanta to waste on his infamous "March to the Sea" campaign.

The Battle of Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) was the turning point of the Civil War, when Southern forces doubled back southward into the town of Gettysburg trying to round up fresh supplies.

The battle took place July 1st , 2nd, and 3rd, 1863.

The commander of the Confederate forces in Mississippi was General Joseph E. Johnston, supervising the commander of the Vicksburg garrison, General John C. Pemberton.

Newton's Station was part of the successful Grierson raid, a diversionary operation that kept Pemberton from noticing that Grant was trying to cross to the East bank of the Mississippi.

I don't think there were any Confederate Generals at Newton's Station. It was a rail depot, and Grierson's men destroyed it without much opposition. It was the largely-fictional John Wayne film that dramatised it, in order to provide a big battle scene in the story.

No, there were not free africans living in virginia.

But most colonies above it there were free africans

But very few and the evidence is sparce. A few indentured servants of African ancestory had been brought to Jamestown even before the "twenty and odd" Angolans were sold there in 1619. Some completed their terms of servitude and were freed. The race of slaves and indentured servants was often indicated in documents (usually with no name listed), but not the race of a freedman. The earliest reference appears to be in a 1624 court document where "John Phillip, a black man christened in England" testified against a white defendant. Some of the original "twenty and odd" were permitted to raise cattle and crops and eventually purchase their freedom. By 1850 several black families owned farms around Jamestown, some even employing white servants. In 1670, a law was enacted which forbid the purchase of "Christian servants by Negros or Indians." Such a law would have been unnecessary if there were no free blacks. By 1700, census data identifies a few black citizens: John Graweere was an officer of the court, Margaret Cornish the daughter-in-law of a legislator, and John Pedro a member of the militia.

It was a major battle fought between July 1 and July 3, 1863 with Lee commanding the South and Meade commanding the North, leading to Lee's abandonment of his invasion and retreat back to Virginia.

The battle was so major, that it is perhaps the most notable in the history of the war.

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I can find no information on the Battle Hill War.

he took over a little house here in Memphis by a railroad track

Many of the slain at the Battle of Gettysburg were buried where they laid or in improvised mass graves by details of the Army of the Potomac and later by the townspeople of the city of Gettysburg. It was high summer (July of 1863) and the dead had to be buried (and thousands of horse and mule carcasses burned) in order to stave off disease. In the fall of 1863 they were re-interned into a military cemetary, and it was the dedication of that Cemetary (on Von Steinwehr drive in present day Gettysburg) that provided the occasion for the Gettysburg Address. Many unmarked graves were missed and for the next 40 years, until the early 20th century, bodies were re-interned into the various cemetaries throughout the National Military Park. As late as 2006 skeletal remains were still being found in overgrown parts of the park.

I think that Janessa won bridalplasty because the bride in the wedding looked too skinny to be Alyson. Even though I wanted Alyson to win but its OK her decision is her decision. But I might be wrong.

actually Alyson won bridalplasty

Confederate uniforms were grey. The Union Army wore dark blue.

The citizens of Gettysburg were experiencing an invasion for the first time, so there was much alarm, but the battle was lost and the troops soon departed from this prosperous farming state that did not suffer any further invasions.

The citizens of Vicksburg had experienced a 5-week siege, and were reduced to eating rats, before the garrison commander eventually surrendered this key river-port to U.S. Grant.

Union states: Oregon, California, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.

The primary goal of the Union Army in the west was to control the Mississippi River. This would separate Texas and Arkansas from the remainder of the Confederacy, deny this trade and supply route to the South while opening it for Union resupply.

North of Saint Louis, the river was quickly in Union hands. New Orleans also fell early in the war. The last major point of resistance was Vicksburg, Mississippi, which was placed under siege and finally fell on July 3, 1863, the same day that Lee began to retreat from Gettysburg.

The Union Army had additional goals in the West: Keep Kentucky in the Union, support the pro-Union forces in Missouri and keep that state in the Union, and place pressure on Tennessee in order to force the Confederacy to divert substantial forces away from the Army of Northern Virginia. All of these goals were met by 1863.

Southerners believed they were fighting for 1. Slavery 2. their rural way of life

Most of the sketch artists, such as Alfred Waud, were working for magazines, such as Harper's Weekly or Frank Leslie's Illustrated. They were not in the army, and were paid by their employer. Some soldiers also drew sketches, but this was for their own enjoyment, and was not their job.

at Apppomattox Court House it was said the rebs could keep their horses to be used for farming.