Battle of Gettysburg

Literally a 'turning point' - Sherman turned South-east and headed for the sea, while Hood's Army of Tennessee turned North and headed for Nashville, a complete reversal of direction.

Sherman's move turned out totally successful (though he was privately jittery about it), and the laying-waste to Georgia farms and railroads helped to starve the Confederate troops in the field.

Hood's move failed disastrously. He assumed wrongly that Sherman would follow him into the mountains, where his supply-line might be cut off. This left him with no particular objective, except to make empty threats to George Thomas in Nashville. Hood's army was routed and fragmented.

Soldiers often fight more intensely in defense of their native soil.

They felt the Union should be preserved. They felt that, by states leaving the Union, they were violating the agreement that formed the United States, that the rebel secessionists were, in fact, committing treason.

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When the Southern States seceded, it was considered an act of treason. It was believed, in essence, that they were destroying the Union that they had helped to form.

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The home actually belonged to Lee's wife's family. She was a Custis, decended from Washington's wife's family. They named it Arlington.

They hoped to receive recognition from one or more major European countries such as England, France, Spain, and Germany; and to force the North to the negotiating table.

I'm guessing you mean Antietam, there was 13,000 dead at Antietam, which was a one day battle. 620,000 died in the Civil War alone, making it the bloodiest war in American History.

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Women began enjoying more freedom. Perhaps as a result of their newly won vote, women began drinking, smoking, bobbed their hair, raised their skirts, and more openly enjoyed sex.

Sherman's March had cut Lees army off from reinforcements, food, and ammunition. Some even deserted to return home to see to their families and property. Lee realized all he could do was delay he inevitable.

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There is a military graveyard to commemorate the casualties, and the words of the Gettysburg Address. The town has grown as a tourist attraction for history buffs. For years, the cemetery drew veterans of the Civil War and their families, the way the Vietnam Memorial draws people today. Former President Dwight David Eisenhower retired there.

General Lee had wrapped some cigars in the pages containing his plans of battle. They were lost, only to be found by General Grant's Army.

The first pitched battle was Bull Run (Manassas, Virginia) in July 1861.

It was three months into the war, and the press and politicians were impatient to see some action.

In fact, it was premature. The armies were simply not trained or equipped, as the Generals knew well. There would be no more major battles for another seven months.

Answer: No, I don't believe he did. All he did was exactly what all the other generals in the war were doing, and that was defending his home and family. The generals in the north would have done the same thing if they were southerners and vice versa.

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It enabled Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which kept Britain and France out of the war. It meant that the Union armies would only have to face the dwindling numbers of the Confederates alone.

The Battle of Gettysburg would be Lee's last incursion into the North. It was fought July 1-3, 1863 in Pennsylvania.

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He was against it, and hoped that his home-state of Virginia would not vote Confederate.

But when it did, he believed that he was a Virginian first and an American second. So he resigned his commission and joined the Confederates.

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Although many blame Longstreet for the failure, the fault lay in supply lines that were far too long. By the time Longstreet's corps was ordered forward on the third day of the battle, the Confederates had used all of their cannon cartridges. One division reported two charges left in the entire division. General Lee was also aware of the misjudgments he had made in estimating the size and composition of the Union forces, and after the battle acknowledged that he never expected the Union to show such tremendous strength in its center after the severe losses of the previous two days. A serious flaw in the overall battle plan was that the main force of Confederate cavalry was off doing everything except the recon that Lee required.

He would be in a strong position to threaten Washington D.C., and meanwhile would have asserted the viability of the Confederacy in the eyes of the British, who were close to offering support.