The Seven Days Campaign of 1862 was a sequence of battles that took place along the Virginia Peninsula east of Richmond between the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Virginia Army. The campaign consisted of the following six battles: Mechanicsville, Gaines ' Mill, and Savage Station, engagement at Oak Swamp Bridge, and battles of Frazier 's Farm and Malvern Hill over a seven-day period. Major General George B. McClellan led the Union Army of nearly 104,000 soldiers, while General Robert
Ulysses S. Grant earlier in 1862. As a result, Grant went on to move each of his forces to Fort Donelson and forced Confederate troops out of both Tennessee and Kentucky as he gained control of river communication and forces. Grant continued to march along the Tennessee River with a great number of troops and upon reaching Shiloh, Tennessee, he encountered a strength of troops led by both Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard. At this point, on the day of April 6, 1862, the Battle of Shiloh began
it would end the Civil War (MacDonald 12). The Confederate army was committed to protecting all routs to Richmond. One year later, in 1862 Jackson blindsided the Union and defeated two Union forces. The blindside defeat of the Union proved that Jackson was a relentless and determined military mind. Jackson did this during the Shenandoah Valley campaign. George McClellan, commander of the Union Army, came up with a plan to capture Richmond, the Confederate capital. McClellan was not known as
either sign it into law or may return the bill to the originating the Congress with his objections to the bill the appropriate constitutional term used is a veto, or neither sign nor return it to Congress after having been presented the bill for ten days exempting Sundays in cases where the Congress is still in session, the bill becomes a law; otherwise, the bill does not become a law and is considered a pocket veto according to the US constitution (Donald 2001 p.112). Literature review During his
On September 17, 1862, the Union and Confederate armies met near the Maryland village of Sharpsburg in a battle that still remains the single bloodiest day in American history. The battle consisted of many attacks and counterattacks between Union General George B. McClellan and The Army of the Potomac against Confederate Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. Despite being heavily outnumbered, the Confederates managed to fight relentlessly over the course of the struggle. However, after
America. In the 1860 presidential election Republicans were led by Abraham Lincoln who did not support slavery at all. even though he had slaves, he did not like it and he opposed the expansion of slavery in the US territories. The problem was that the seven slave states with cotton-based economics needed their slaves to keep their economy up and running, so they formed the Confederacy. These first 7 states to secede had a 48.8% population of slaves. President James Buchanan and the Republicans rejected
The Emancipation Proclamation And Its Consequences During his election campaign and throughout the early years of the Civil War, Lincoln vehemently denied the rumour that he would mount an attack on slavery. At the outbreak of fighting, he pledged to 'restore the Union, but accept slavery where it existed ', with Congress supporting his position via the Crittendon-Johnson Resolutions. However, during 1862 Lincoln was persuaded for a number of reasons that Negro emancipation as a war measure
expansion, slavery, and federal rights versus states rights. “I have fought against the people of the North because I believe they were seeking it’s dearest rights. But never have I cherished toward or vindictive feelings and I have never seen the day I did not pray for them.” (Robert E. Lee Quotes). After North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas had seceded from the Union to become the Confederate States of America. General Robert Edward
Ridge, also known as the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, was a part of a larger campaign to win control of Missouri during the Civil War. Seven months prior to Pea Ridge, the Union had suffered a loss at Wilson 's Creek. In an effort to gain footing after this loss, the Union Army followed the Confederates south into Arkansas. The Union and Confederate Army 's clashed on 7 March 1862, ending in Union victory by the following day. The Union Army (Army of the Southwest) The Union Army at Pea Ridge was
impregnable against invasion and the attempts made by the Federals failed. These attempts were directed at four points. Galveston, at Sabine Pass, at Brownsville and by way of Red River-but in each case no important progress was made. On October 4, 1862, the Federals who had been maintaining the blockade of the gulf coast made an attack on Galveston. The Confederate troops on the island were not strong enough to put up a defense, so they withdrew, without a struggle, to the mainland. The town of Galveston