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On January 26, 1863 General Joseph Hooker was appointed the commander of the Army of the Potomac. General Hooker wanted to attack General Lee’s army while a large portion of his troops were engaged at the town of Fredericksburg. He commanded an army that was almost twice the size of Lee’s forces. Hooker then moved the Union forces toward the town of Chancellorsville and had his men set up in defensive positions just outside the town. When General Lee learned of this he moved a portion of his men to assault Hooker and his army. When he arrived, Lee split his men in order to attack from different locations and General Stonewall Jackson commander of the cavalry moved his men to an exposed section of the Union defense and exploited it. On May 3 the fighting was so fierce that it caused General Hooker to withdraw his men and move them to the other side of the river that was nearby. This is when General Lee learned of federal troops gaining the advantage

The battle took place in the tangled woods of what is now Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Park about 10 miles west of Fredericksburg, Virginia along Orange Plank Road and Orange Turnpike. The Federals held the land to the east and the confederates to the west. The land was nearly impassable, proving a nightmare for both moving men and logistics. The importance of the location, however, was significant. Railways and roads led to Washington and were logistically important. For two years, fighting for the land surrounding the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers led to stalemate. Twice previously, Lee had been able to withstand attack from the Federals; attacks led by Joseph Hooker and George Meade. Lee’s plan was, likely, to take Washington, which he believed would decidedly win

The Civil War, composed of the Union run by numerous generals replacing one another, and the Confederacy lead by Robert E. Lee, was and still is one of the most gruesome wars in American History, and the Battle of Gettysburg is considered by most as an incredible turning point of the war. This is due to how the Union brought down the Confederacy’s winning streak, and gave the Confederacy a huge blow to their manpower, supplies, and overall strength to win (Battle of Gettysburg, 1). Robert E. Lee, though a great general throughout the Civil War, was a failure during the Battle Gettysburg because he was not able to get his men to their jobs done in time. Another reason he was a failure was because of his plan to attack again on July 3rd which

The second phase of the Battle of Shiloh starts as reinforcements from General Buell’s Army of the Ohio and a unit of Grant’s own reserve division joined the Union Army now positioned at Pittsburg Landing. These reinforcements added over 22,500 men to the Union lines13 bringing the total number of Union forces to over 45,000, which is more than they had on 6 April, the first day of fighting.14 On April 7, General Grant renewed the fighting with an aggressive counteract.15 Greatly outnumbered (Confederate forces now around 25,000) and disorganized the Confederate forces now under General Beauregard fought hard but eventually had to retreat to back Corinth.16 The second phase of the Battle of Shiloh was won by General Grant and his Union forces due to two main reasons. The first, Union troop numbers greatly outnumbered their enemy, over 45,000 to 25,000 respectively. And secondly, the reinforcements received by General Grant had not fought the day before and were fresh and excited to fight, unlike the exhausted remaining Confederate troops.17 This was the bloodiest battle fought on American soil up to that point, with 23,746 casualties (Union: 13,047; Confederate: 10,699).18 The Union lost more men but claimed the victory because the Confederate Army retreated back to Corinth, Mississippi.

Sherman to move into Georgia, and General Franz Sigel to clear the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Despite the failure of Butler and Sigel and heavy losses at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, Grant continued to press the drive against General Robert E. Lee's army. After Sherman's success in Georgia and the conquest of the Shenandoah Valley by General Philip H. Sheridan, Grant forced Lee to abandon Petersburg and Richmond and to surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9.

The American Civil War had as many as 650,000 casualties, naming itself as America’s bloodiest war. The beginning of the end started when Union armies outran Gordon’s regiment and had already captured 6,000 troops prior to the battle at Sayler's Creek. Union troops had overthrew the Confederate capital of Richmond, due to this the North had Lee running for the hills and Grant was not about to let Lee off that easily. It doesn’t help that the Confederates had many soldiers leaving the army, so really there really wasn’t a Confederate army, in all honesty they were a band of jolly old rebels. Grant chased Lee through the backwoods of Virginia and eventually into Appomattox Court House, Lee who was low on supplies, soldiers, and ammunition, he knew that he didn’t have a

To put it more precisely, Grant attempted to attack Lee’s army from three directions and the first was the attack from Meade. In such a way, he attempted to push Confederates Southward and to win the Virginia campaign. In a short-run perspective, Grant’s plan was to cross the Rapidan River east of the Confederate position at Orange Court House, before swinging west to engage the enemy. In such a way, the battle was a part of the attack on the Confederate from three directions to defeat them in Virginia.

After the first day of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee was ahead after the Union troops retreated. Two days later, at the end of the battle, it was Lee and his army who had retreated after more than half of the Confederate Army had been killed, missing, and been injured. After Lee won against the Union Army, in Chancellorsville, he marched the Confederate Army into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. The Union was already there. The Battle of Gettysburg lasted for three long, bloody days.

On March 7th ,1862 Glen Joseph Johnston, commander of the Confederates Army of Northern Virginia ordered his troops to march out of Centreville,Virginia and head about forty miles South to Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock River.

The beginning of the battle started at the Battle of South Mountain. This was an attack led by 38,000 Union soldiers against only 12,000 defending Confederate troops, where the Confederate soldiers ended up being pushed back around dusk before the main battle began. By the end of this pre-battle the Union ended up with 2,500 Union casualties and the Confederate taking a loss of 3,800 casualties. The significant factor of this was General Lee made it look like he outnumbered General McClellan, but if he were to use his full mass to to go over the Mountain and attack from there he would have had a much greater chance of ending the battle with a major Union victory. Although he didn’t because of the

be 5,600 casualties. The Union attacked the Confederate line a total of 5 times, each time retreating. However, eventually the Confederate line collapsed and the Union charged. They killed everyone in their path, except for the retreating Confederates. This decision to let the Confederates go was made by General McClellan, and is thought of as the second chance he had to finish the Civil War, and didn’t. The first chance he had was bigger and more apparent than the second, but the second chance was an option

Michael Dugard helps with the United States of America track and field foundation. Dugard is a co-author of many books with O’Reilly. Most of his books are based off of his experiences. He has traveled and explored the world to get a better view on what he wants to write. O’Reilly is qualified to write books, but on the other hand Dugard is not. Killing Lincoln is based in chronically order. It goes day by day on the war, what happens, and why it happens. It explains why history is so important, and why we need to make America great.

The armies left in the early morning, Grant arriving first, waiting for Lee's army. Every one of Lee's soldiers knew that Grant's ranks were heavily supplied, and aware of the fact that the odds were against them. The Confederates had unshaken

The Congress delayed for additional month then hardly agreed by only one election in the Senate. In the past hundred days of the war Lee’s army almost to nothing meaning his army didn’t really hold many men, he only hold thirty-five thousand men while Grant’s hold one hundred and twenty thousand. As the Confederates were not doing so well, the confederate postpone their final effort, by employing their own slaves they could not forever afford the five to one loss. The wives of these men begged for them to come home to feed their empty family

I. Identification of Work The author of Killing Lincoln is no other than Bill O’Reilly. He is best known for his talk show “The O’Reilly factor but also for his several bestselling books. O’Reilly is a historian and journalist has a firm grasp on history. When he’s not being filmed, he’s researching and writing his books he shares with the world.