Confederate States Army

Run was between the Union and Confederate armies in northern Virginia, from August 29 to August 30, 1862. The Union army of Virginia was commanded by John Pope and the the Confederate army was commanded by General Robert E. Lee. Based on President Abraham Lincoln’s orders, McClellan withdrew the Union army from Richmond. The plan was to combine that army with General Pope’s troops. When the northerners pulled back, General Lee planned to demolish General Pope's army before it combined with General

The Wilderness Campaign was a battle between the Union and Confederacy that lasted 3 days from May 5-7 1864 that ultimately had an inconclusive result. Each side had a general as mostly all armies do. The Union was lead by Lt. Gen Ulysses S. Grant, and the Confederacy was lead by General Robert E. Lee. The battle was located at Spotsylvania and Orange Counties, Virginia. The Union had a total of 102,000 troops and the Confederacy had 61,000. The Confederacy had less troops, but they had less casualties

happened toward the center of the battlefield, Union assaults against the Sunken Road pierced the Confederate center after a terrible struggle for this key defensive position. The Union army had a prime opportunity to split Lee’s forces down the middle and possible destroy them. General Longstreet later wrote, “It was easy to see that if the Federals broke through our line there, the Confederate army would be cut in two and probably destroyed.” McClellan did not seize the opportunity to end the

battle took place in Benton County, Arkansas, and was part of the Pea Ridge campaign. The two major generals of this battle are Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis with the U.S army who divided his army between Peter Osterhaus and Eugene Carr. The other general was Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn with the confederate army. Van Dorn divided his army between generals Benjamin McCullough and Sterling Price. This battle's importance came from protecting missouri. Whoever won this battle would have control of missouri

victory with high stakes, it was a pivotal battle to win, it was one step closer to the heart of the Confederacy; Richmond. That is what Custer did. He surveyed the enemy, found their weakness and to low and behold, he wavered and collapsed the Confederate line. The confederated had not time to even prepare, Custer came out of nowhere charged and captured 1800 prisoners, 14 artillery pieces, 200 supply wagons and 17 battle flags, an exemplarity victory

¥ Museum or Historic Site Assignment Museums not only hold artifacts from the past, but enables us to connect to the events and people in that time period. On the beautiful afternoon of last Wednesday, I visited the Oaklands Mansion in Murfreesboro, TN. I went with a friend and joined the last tour of the day. It’s an outstanding manor with beautiful grounds which bears a 250 years old Oak tree along with many different kinds of exotic plants. The tour through all the rooms, 14 in total didn’t take

many different types of warfare. Amongst the common Union and Confederate soldiers, many men fought on either side in different types of irregular military forces. These forces, along with regular soldiers, contributed to the many styles of warfare. Three prominent warfare styles during the Civil War were regularly trained soldiers, bushwhackers, and guerrilla soldiers. The majority of battles were fought by official Union or Confederate soldiers. These battles typically had some sort of organization

were under threat of attack from General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia which had crossed the Potomac River and marched into Pennsylvania. The Union Army of the Potomac under its new commander, General George G. Meade, marched to intercept Lee. ( Jeffry D. Wert) On Tuesday morning, June 30, an small number of Confederate soldiers searching for shoes headed toward Gettysburg. The Confederate

Burnside, became the commander of the army of the Potomac sent a corps to occupy vicinity of Falmouth near Fredericksburg soon the rest of them whent. On December 11, engineers laid five pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock under fire. On December 12 , they crossed over and on the 13, mounted a series of futile frontal assaults on Prospect Hill and Marye’s Heights that resulted in staggering casualty Union generals C. Feger Jackson and George Bayard, and Confederate generals Thomas R.R. Cobb and Maxey

failed to take Richmond and confederate officials planned to recapture lost territory in the east. After Lee planned to seize railroads feeding into Washington. Lee’’s march through Maryland was very fast and he then split his army of 11,000 men to take harpers ferry in order for them to be harder to find for McClellan to find. McClellan’s soldiers found a copy of Lee’s marching orders wrapped in a cigar so McClellan was able to track down Lee. McClellan outnumbered Lee’s army by 20,000 soldiers but