Battle of Gettysburg

Robert E. Lee - he commanded that army, both before and after Chancellorsville, starting in the Peninsula Campaign, when he replaced the badly-wounded Joe Johnston, and ending with his surrender to U.S. Grant at Appomattox.

Chancellorsville is regarded as his greatest victory - but really it was the triumph of the Lee-Jackson partnership. Jackson was killed at this battle, and neither Lee nor his army was ever the same again. Lee's health seems to have started to fail just at this time (he was not feeling well at the next battle, Gettysburg) and this may have been psychosomatic, as though he realized, on one level, that the glory days were over.

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No battles were fought in Key West during the Civil War. It was occupied while under construction as the war began by Union troops. Since it was so impregnable, it remained in Union hands throughout the war despite being hundreds of miles behind "enemy" lines. Fort Zachary Taylor in Key West was exceedingly critical in the war due to it being the linchpin between the Gulf and the Atlantic Blockade Squadrons. Over 600 southern blockade runners were captured by the Union blockade patrols and sold at auction at Key West. The success of the blockade clearly cut the length of the war possibly by two years as the South ran out of the means to fight.

Yes, he preceded Lincoln.

Major psychological blow to the Confederates - and to Lee himself, whose health started to fail at this time.

It was the end of any Confederate hopes of invading the North. They had failed in what was meant to be a foraging and provisioning campaign. They would be barefoot and starving for the rest of the war.

Now he could only take his battered army back to Virginia, where it would be in no state to conduct operations for many months.

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Gettysburg is a city is Pennsylvania where president Abraham Lincoln gave his famous speech called The Gettysburg Address. I bet you know it, it begins "For score and seven years ago". Probably the most famous (and most amazing) speeches ever! It was a incredible speech about the Cvil War, and Lincoln trying to stop it. And if you are even in Pennsylvania, you should go to Gettysburg. Amazing place of American history to see. And if you ever get the chance to look up the Gettysburg Address, definitely do so to see what Lincoln said!

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Southerners were closer to the horse-riding way of life. Also the Confederate spirit can be traced back to the Cavalier traditions of the English Civil War.

So for the first half of the American Civil War, the Confederate cavalry, with its colourful heroes like Jeb Stuart and Jubal Early, was way ahead of any Union equivalent.

The first major Union cavalry operation was an astonishingly successful raid across Mississippi in the spring of 1863 - more so because it was led by a totally inexperienced non-regular soldier (Grierson) who was a music-teacher with a lifelong dread of horses.

This raid fully achieved its objective, which was to distract and confuse the commander of the Vicksburg garrison, while Grant got his army across the Mississippi undetected. It continued all the way down to Louisiana, with almost nil casualties. The raid was the subject of a film 'The Horse Soldiers', starring John Wayne.

After this, Union cavalry began to gain credibility, one particularly effective leader being Phil Sheridan, who made up for his lack of height by expert horsemanship.

The Battle of the Somme took place n WWI.

Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg is considered the High Water Mark because Gettysburg is the farthest point north that the South was able to penetrate, and the defense against it prevented Lee from penetrating any further, but that is based on an outmoded view of Gettysburg's strategic importance. In fact, it is overemphasized, and not a decisive battle strategically.

Because the North had A) more supplies B) more people and C) the Anaconda plan [Anaconda plan: step 1: Blockade southern ports to prevent supplies for their army from coming in. Step 2: Take over the Mississippi River, splitting the South in two. Step 3: Invade from East and West, surrounding the South.]. Plus, Grant was a brilliant General.

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Just of the top of my head, here it goes, Gettysburg, Antietam, 1st and 2nd Bull Run, Fredickburg (mostly the 7 days battle), and Chancellorville. Each one of these battles had more than a few thousand casualties, nothing compared to the hellhoe of the siege of leningrad in the eastern front during WW2, and the greater battle of Stalingrad, those were in the millions.

Minnesota is famous for its huge state fair and delicious cheese curds and fresh-baked cinnamon-sugar coated donuts and ice-cold milk. Minnesota is also home to the states largest boar, which weighs almost 1,500 pounds.

Farms. Even forty years later, at the 1900 census, 90% of Americans lived on farms or in towns with less than 2500 people. There were a few larger cities, but nowhere near the size they are today. Even New York City had about 1/8th of the population it has now in 1860. Everybody was a farmer.

It was one of the Confederate armies, perhaps the main one, but not the only one.

The Gettysburg Address is a brilliant piece of emotional persuasive speech. The three major types of appeal in speech are logos, ethos, and pathos (logical, moral, and emotional). The Gettysburg Address is not a logical construction. There is a certain logical conflict in the appeal to the idea of freedom, while denying freedom to those who wished to secede from the Union. Lincoln emphasized the moral need for freedom and equality and supported that with an emotional appeal to the memory of the slain soldiers. This is generally recognized as one of the finest short speeches ever delivered in the English language.

Gettysburg

# Union Generals Major General George G. Meade Major General Joseph Hooker Brig. General John Buford Major General John F. Reynolds Major General Lysander Cutler Brig. General Solomon Meredith Major General Abner Doubleday Major General Oliver O. Howard Brig. General Thomas Rowley Brig. General John C. Robinson Brig. General Francis C. Barlow Brig. General Adolph bon Steinwehr Major General Winfield S. Hancock Major General Daniel Sickles Brig. General Andrew A. Humphrey Major General David B. Birney Brig. General John C. Caldwell Brig. General Gouverneur K. Warren Brig. General George S. Greene Brig. General David McM Gregg George A. Custer Brig. General Judson Kilpatrick Brig. General Elon J. Farnsworth 2. Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee Lt. General James Longstreet Lt. General Richard S. Ewell Lt. General A.P. Hill Major General J.E.B. Stuart Major General Jubal Early Brig. General J. Johnson Pettigrew Major General Henry Heth Brig. General James J. Archer Brig. Genral Joseph R. Davis Major General William Dorsey Pender Major General Robert E. Rodes Brig. General Alfred Iverson Major General John Bell Hood Major General Richard H. Anderson Major General Edward "Allegheny" Johnson Brig. General Evander Law Brig. General Wade Hampton.

They dedicated the cemetery there to the honored dead.

Both Antietam and Gettysburg were fought in Union states, in the East; Perryville in the West.

The president of the Southern states at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg was Jefferson Davis. He would be the only president of the Confederacy.

Ignoring Lincoln's wishes and imposing a harsh Reconstruction policy on the South caused resentment among the ex-Confederates.

Abraham Lincoln is not dedicating a battlefield, rather the cemetery where the Union dead from the Battle of Gettysburg are buried. The wording of the speech can encompass all Union dead from all of the fields of battle.