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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

In the beginning of Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Henry Fleming or the “youthful private” is a farm-boy who has left the farm against his mother’s best wishes to enlist in the Union army. The novella begins after Henry has enlisted and joined with the 304th New York regiment encamped across a river in Virginia from the enemy. The date is May 1863, two years after the Civil War has already begun, and the scene is set for the upcoming Battle of Chancellorsville. Through the course of the weeks

There are many instances in which Family members fought on opposing sides of the war, for example: the Culp Family from Pennsylvania, Crittenden Family from Kentucky. Even President Lincoln’s wife had members of her family that fought on opposing sides. This is the perfect example of people fighting for their own cause not just because there was a line drawn on a map. Before the Battle of Gettysburg even started many soldiers had fought side by side in multiple battles as US Soldiers, where many

The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the American Civil war. General Robert E. Lee was the commanding officer of the Confederate army. During the battle of Gettysburg Lee’s military strategy was to fight offensive. Lee’s goal during the battle was to seize the high ground and out last the union army. The Union army had outnumbered the Confederate soldiers. General Lee’s first hand man was General James Longstreet. Longstreet believes the new technology in warfare would make attacking

In Virginia the first battle of the Civil War was fought, near Manassas, Virginia railroad junction, after which the battle is called (or First Bull Run, named after the flowing stream on the battlefield, if of the Union point of view). The armies in this first battle were not prodigious by later Civil War principles. The Federal services under Brigadier General Irvin McDowell were well thought-out into four divisions, of about 30,000 men. These divisions were commanded by Tyler, Hunter, Heintzelman

Nicholas Andrade 1/9/18 Period 4 Washington Generals The Washington Generals are an American exhibition basketball team. This basketball team is best known for their losing streak against their nemesis The Harlem Globetrotters.The Washington Generals team’s coach was Louis “Red” Klotz and was also a player of his team. The Washington Generals were made to be the rivals of the Harlem Globetrotters because the founder of the Harlem Globetrotters wanted a rivals for his team. Their team’s color

The Battle of Antietam was battled on September 17, 1862. Union armed force led by General George B. McClellan battled against the Confederate Army led by General Robert E. Lee. The fight was battled along the Antietam Creek close Sharpsburg, Maryland. The union armed force lost more than twelve thousand men, while the confederate armed force lost around ten thousand men. General Robert E. Lee barely got away thrashing this fight and the absence of men cause him and his armed force to withdraw

In the novel "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara, the story is told from the perspective of the men that fought in the war of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania on July 1863. We are able to see both sides of the combatants, their struggles they faced, friendships acquired, losses, personal stories and their views. In history we only learn the superficial information of how it occurred in the battle and the outcome of it, but we do not know how it happened and how much effort it took to fight in that war

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

Thomas Jackson was among the successful generals for the South in the civil war. Jackson graduated from the Military academy, Westpoint. Before Jackson's success in the civil war he was a school teacher. When his home state of Virginia succeeded from the union, Jackson decided to go back into the military for his state (History). Thomas Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg Virginia. Jackson's mother died during childbirth after delivering his sister (History). His sister and father