Battle of Gettysburg

Maine was brought into the unioni in 1820 by the Missouri Compromise

The 1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain began with a fierce fire of artillery by the batteries of Confederate Brigadier General Charles Winder. His artillery hammered Union forces for two hours. Winder received a mortal wound during the battle and he died within a short time.

The people of the battle of the bull run ate hardtack- a hard type of bread and also soups Diets were prett awful by today standards- salt pork, chicoree(like coffee) soda crackers, corn if they were lucky maybe a chicken they could procure

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Sherman was not given an army until March 1864.

Chattanooga was all over in November 1863. (It had a lot to do with supply-lines, but not Sherman's.)

Atlanta was where the Army of Tennessee holed up in August 1864. When Sherman occupied Atlanta, that army escaped into the mountains, and Grant ordered Sherman to pursue. Now it was Sherman's long and vulnerable supply-line that made him feel he could not achieve this, and asked Grant's permission to undertake his March to the Sea instead (living off the land).

Nashville was the beginning of the supply-line - a single-track railroad with 24 viaducts that were always being blown up by Confederate cavalry under Bedford Forrest. By the time of the Battle of Nashville (December 1864), Sherman was closing on Savannah and planning to cross into South Carolina, with very few Confederates still in the field. His supply-line was no longer a worry to him.

After graduating from West Point, Lee became a member of the US. Army and began a long and remarkable military career. He distinguished himself in the Mexican War earning three honorary field promotions. His accomplishments were many including Assistant to the Chief of the Engineer Corps and Superintendent of West Point. In later years he was appointed President of what is now called "Washington and Lee University" in Lexington, Virginia. President Lincoln had asked Lee to command the Union Armies and respectively rejected this notion. Robert E. Lee vigorously opposed slavery and as early as 1856 made this statement: "There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil." Lee also knew that the use of slaves was coming to an end. Cyrus McCormick's 1831 invention of the mule-drawn mechanical reaper sounded the death knell for the use of slave labor. Before the Civil War began, 250,000 slaves had already been freed.

The topic was keeping the country united no matter what

The Battle of Gettysburg was a long, gruesome battle. However, it was certainly a turning point that determined the war's eventual outcome. The North, who had been losing most of the important battles, regained morale after coming out as the winner at Gettysburg. It led to the North's win of the war.

The first pitched battle won by the Confederates was that of First Bull Run.

A list of all units in a particular battle, or in a particular command at a certain time, is called an "Order of Battle". See related links below for an Order of Battle of each side.

Gettysburg was fought in July 1863. The war started in 1861, and ended in 1865

Because they kept Robert E. Lee trapped near Richmond, and not free to make tactical moves.

More decisive, however, was the General Election of November 1864, where the Northern civilians endorsed Lincoln and voted to fight on.

This was not due to the slow-moving Virginia (i.e. Overland) campaign, which had actually damaged Northern morale. It was the success of Sherman in Atlanta, Sheridan in the Shenandoah, and Farragut in the liberation of the blockade-runners' port of Mobile, that revived Northern morale.

Remember at the beginning of the war, everyone thought it would be over very quickly. Many soldiers on both the North and South enlisted for 90 days or 1 year. The South thought the Northern states were not interested in going to war to fight to keep control of the Southern states. They felt that the Union soldiers were not dedicated as much as they were to defending their rights and homeland. The South quickly raised soldiers who were ready to fight. They had many officers and generals who were experienced soldiers & leaders. This was proven by the battles won by the Confederacy in the first year of the war.

Even after 3 years of fighting, the Confederacy was still seeking support from England. They felt that if England recognized them as a separate country, then that would legitimize their government and they would have support needed to continue to fight. This never happened.

Both sides in the conflict did not really understand the strength of feelings they each elicited on the other side. The North did not really believe the South will secede from the Union, since this had been threatened many times before but not actually carried through. The South, on the other hand, did not believe the North would go to war over the preservation of the Union since in every other respect the South was not actually threatening the Northern way of life. From their point of view all they wanted was to be left alone.

Interestingly, Lincoln was well aware of the weakness and intangibility of the North's cause and it is this which led him (among other reasons) to issue the Emancipation proclamation. Freedom is one of the few truly universal ideas for which people have been truly been willing to die.

The other point to remember was that the South saw itself as a far superior producer of soldiers than the North. This was not entirely inaccurate as the South did have the better officer cadre and its soldiers, raised in the wilder agrarian environment of the South , were more used to the rigors of military life. The fact that the North had the better industrial infrastructure necessary to support a War Economy was not immediately apparent and would only become apparent later on in the War.

YES Reasons: * Classes levelled as women all shared similar experiences. * Worked in more physical jobs (E.g. window cleaning, munition factories, plumbing, ship building, farm labour, mining, quarrying etc.) * Fashions changed (introduction of flapper dress) * Changing attitudes of the young (unchaperoned young ladies) * New slang * More social and economic freedom * Less regular use of contraception and unfaithful behaviour in marriage * Got vote for women over 30 in 1918, and over 21 in 1928.

Lee applied the strategy of using the field fortification as a cornerstone of the maneuver, who was a "reenactment" of the ancient Romans strategy, particularly that of Julius Caesar, of which Lee was a scholar. He ordered his army to dig entrenchments but not to make themselves buried into but to do systematic use of the trenches and field fortifications as a basic element of the maneuvered warfare.
He aimed to paralyze McClellan's Union Arm in the front, in order to be able to suddenly hit them in the flanks and rear.Furthermore Lee was able to exploit the well known McClellan's endless indecision and cautiousness leaving him uncertain about Confederate forces he had to face and their objectives. In so doing Lee was able to constantly maintain the initiative upon his opponent inflicting him many defeats and finally making him give up his offensive against Richmond.

So the question was when did the pilgrams land on this continent? And the answer is so they landed in 1620s.

The American Civil War was battled between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, an assortment of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861. The contention started basically because of the long-standing conflict over the establishment of subjection. On February 9, 1861, Jefferson Davis, a previous U.S. Representative and Secretary of War, was chosen President of the Confederate States of America by the individuals from the Confederate protected show. Following four wicked long periods of contention, the United States crushed the Confederate States. Eventually, the states that were in defiance were readmitted to the United States, and the establishment of subjugation was abrogated from one side of the country to the other.

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Lincoln's Address was at the dedication of The National Cemetery in Gettysburg It took place 4 months after the battle. In 1863 It was widely criticized as a failure of an address But Today Is probably the best known of The Presidential Addresses. Opening Speaker Edward Everett spoke for apx. 2.5 Hours, Lincoln spoke for 2.5 minutes Everett said " I wish I could have summed up in 2 1/2 hours what you summed up in 2 1/2 minutes.

General Lee understood the gamble he was going to take by assaulting Cemetery Ridge on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg. He also understood the caution that General James Longstreet had given to Lee which was not to attack the Union's position on the Ridge. Part of Lee's confidence lay in the massive artillery barrage that he ordered at 1:00 PM on July 3, 1863. The Confederate artillery barrage came from 140 cannons. Many shots overshot their targets and left the Union's 80 guns ready for a Rebel advance which began at 3 PM that afternoon. The assaults failed and the battle was lost. Lee expected a counter attack on July 4th but General Meade wisely held back from a possible defeat.

Antietam - because its result directly affected the outcome of the war. Lincoln was free to issue his Emancipation Proclamation, which kept Britain and France from aiding the Confederates. That could have tilted the war fatally against the Union.

Gettysburg was the more dramatic moment, and turned out to be a psychological body-blow to the Confederates, and also to Lee personally (his health began to fail from this time.) But it did not directly affect any strategic outcomes.

In 1778, Lee was promoted to Major and given the command of a mixed corps of cavalry and infantry known as Lee's Legion, with which he won a great reputation as a leader of light troops. It was during his time as commander of the Legion that Lee earned the sobriquet of "Light-Horse Harry" for his horsemanship.

There was no complete state captured.

But the battle marked the end of Confederate ascendancy in Western Tennessee, and the state of Tennessee presently came to be regarded as a Union state.

Yes. Of the greatest American generals ever, Lee may not be in a class by himself, but it does not take long to call the roll.

Lee was always outnumbered, had only slender resources to work with, was greatly hampered by numerous difficulties, of supply and transportation, lack of arms and equipment, and food. At times thousands of his soldiers were barefoot.

But even against the odds and working against all these difficulties, Lee not only survived but won battles, and came near to winning the war against a determined foe.

The North had a better Railway system, because they were the industrial part of the nation then. The South did have some railways but they only extended so far south, and they had NO branches off of them.

Women were affected by the English Civil War because they had to become war widows. They also used to do their husband's work, eg farming & business whilst their husband's were at war. They used to do demonstrations and petition to stop the war.

Children were affected by the English Civil War because they were upset by the shooting and lots of people around them dying.

Boys over the age of 15 could fight. If they were younger they were served as drummer or bugle boys. They usually died as they were at the front of the army. Boys used to lie about their name and age so that they could fight in the war.