Battle of Gettysburg

The Union Army had to cross the James River, and to do it below Richmond, where the James is rapidly widening into a tidal estuary. This required the longest pontoon bridge the world had ever seen. No one on the Confederate side had entertained the possibility that they could do this, so they were able to arrive at Petersburg and achieve complete surprise. This advantage was squandered through mismanaged attacks, otherwise the war might have ended ten months sooner than it did.

The First Battle of Bull Run proved that neither army was capable of delivering a decisive victory.

Colonel Alexander the commander of the Confederate Battery gave the order.

Lee surrendered at Appomattox in April of 1865.

The opening move in Grant's Overland Campaign (May 1864).

The battle was won by the Confederates. But Grant continued to press Lee into a corner, where he would have to stand siege.

No, the 10th Maine was the Provost Guard for the 12th Army Corps and didn't see any real fighting. The 20th Maine defended Little Round Top with a bayonet charge that is very famous. It was the 1st Minnisota.

In the book The Gettysburg Gospel

It was more like 2 years.

For most of that tme, their cause was virtually lost. After Lincoln won the election of November 1864, it was totally lost.

The Gettysburg Address did not create an amendment. It was meant to dedicate the cemetery at Gettysburg. Some of the ideals in it may have contributed to the thinking of the Congress when they framed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, but it did not create these.

The Emancipation Proclamation on the other hand can be credited as being the genesis of at least the 13th amendment which formally abolished slavery in the United States.

The confederates tried to get supplies. Then, there were two thousand union soldiers protecting the town. The, they started fighting.

The battle of Gettysburg.

A small round hill is known as a Knoll-Ref. Webster Dictionary.

It didn't. The Confederacy was the government formed by those states attempting to leave the Union. The two were at war. Michael Montagne Actually, the Union did depend on the Confederacy. With out the confederacy's contributions to the war and *mistakes* the Union would have never won.

If you mean in the 1990's, not really. As in Bosnia and Hercegovina, although both sides in the conflict included ethinically Croatian and Serbian citizens of contemporary Croatia and figthing was within Croatia's boundaries, the war was financed and supported by contemporary Serbia and would not have occurred without Serbia's aid and intervention. A similar war was fought in the 1940's in the region, primarily within Bosnia and Hercegovina, but subsumed under the fighting of Allies and Axis in World War II. Most of the constituent states of the region lacked sovereignty from about 1400's to 1900's as vassals or territories of primarly the Ottoman and Austrian crowns. Large population displacements from east to west resulted with the Ottoman invasions of Europe of 1400's and 1500's which altered the original settlement pattern of the Slavic tribes that permanently settled in the region by about 900. As a result, economic, political and cultural divides developed without the opportunity for accommodation through self-rule until the end of the Ottoman and Austrian monarchies in 1918. However, that process was interrupted in 1941 when the region lost its neutrality, equally due to UK and Axis pressure, resulting in the region's occupation by Germany/Austria, Italy and their allies. Especially as it became clear that the Axis would loose World War II, war for control over the region accelerated among the Serbian royal restorationists, communist led national liberation movement and the fascist supported regimes in Seribia, Bosnia and Hercegovina and Croatia. The conflict resulted in the communist led movement's victory that instituted a single party, communist state in the region. This regime lasted until 1991, but its inflexibility as a result of one-party rule, heavy reliance on military institutions and economic failure created an environment in which accumulated economic, political and cultural issues remained unresolved. As constitutionally permitted, constituent states of a federal system serially voted to seced into sovereign nation states. The abundance of weapons left behind by the communist regime and their concentration under Serbian control, US, UK and French policies of disengagement and weak democratic institutions all created a vacuum in which the use of force was an alternative to diplomacy in resolving legacy issues and the complexity of dissolving a federal state. By 1995 after a great deal of destruction to people, infrastructure and the economy, the region returned to the 1991 status-quo, where each of the principal Slavic nations has its own sovereign state within the boundaries inherited from prior federal systems under which they were governed. Each will eventually become a member of the European Union. Slovenia has already become a member and Croatia is a candidate for membership. Montenegro is next country likeliest to become a candidate for membership. Bosnia and Hercegovina, Serbia and Macedonia have to make further internal reforms and find methods for democratically governing a multi-ethnic population before they would be considered for entry into the EU. Other point of view by Janus13: That is a very good answer, but since the main fighting was between the people of different ethnic minorities that lived in Croatia, I think it should be quallified as a civil war by definition.

Never attack a well defended position on the high ground with numerically inferior forces.

24,000 battle casualties plus 9,000 non-battle

General Stonewall Jackson, accidently shot by his own men while riding with aides at dusk. He pressed his forces forward in an effort to destroy the Federal troops and was caught in a crossfire.

No. General Lee was a native-born American citizen. His ancestors fought in the American Revolution.

Yes, Texas was a member of the Confederacy.

It had the manpower, willpower, material and the essential seapower needed to isolate the agrarian South from all commerce.

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Robert S. Garrett holds that distinction. The most important Southern General killed was Albert Sidney Johnson at Shiloh. At the time of his death, he was considered the best commander in the South, possibly the most talented commander in either army. Davis thought more highly of him than he did of Lee.

The address was given in November of 1863. The war ened in April of 1865.

The Battle happened in Pennsylvania, Was known as the bloodiest battle of American History.

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The Confederate casualties had been so heavy that the South had no more sufficient men and resources to mount again another invasion of the North, and Lee was then forced to fight a strictly defensive war.

By the time the Battle of Gettysburg happened, the people that thought watching a battle was glorious, figured out it wasn't. There were only spectators in the early battles of the Civil War.