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may have fought in the Civil War. After the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for seventy-five thousand volunteers. Many children joined the army because they were either runaways, orphans, or they wanted to fight beside their brothers and fathers. Most boys from the North did not join the army because they wanted to get rid of slavery. One boy’s comment was, “I do not know anything about it, whether it is a good thing or a bad thing and when talk gets around to it

fight to preserve the Union progressed, so did a number of other areas, such as weaponry and artillery. The advanced technology produced through the Civil War assisted in increasing number of casualties. The North was more fortuitous than the South in multitudinous ways. One of which includes the fact that their industrial society allowed them to produce a larger amount of weapons of a higher quality. One of the major reasons the Union triumphantly defeated the Confederate army was because of their

It was very common for residents from one part of a county to take up arms against people in another part of the county. In many cases union and rebel neighbors clashed over control of their communities. Bushwhacking, murder, assault and terrorism were the same characteristics of this type of fighting. Very few wore uniforms or were even formally in any army. In most cases it was civilian on civilian or civilian against enemy or opposing forces. Guerrilla activities had become a acute problem

forts Henry and donelson. The army of the tennessee and army of ohio. During this 6 months prior to the battle of shiloh, yankee troops had been working their way up to the tennessee and the cumberland rivers. The u.s army controlled most of tennessee. The general Ulysses . Grant scored major victories at Henry and Donelson.This battle was one of the most major early engagements of the american civil war. Grant brought his army, 42,000 strong men to Rendezvous

three corps of the Union. General Lee’s Confederates went after the hill and advanced about few hundred yards from Baltimore Park, a single supply line for the Army of the Potomac. (Reardon & Vossler, 2013) At ten o’clock in the evening, Colonel Rufus noticed the risk of Confederates occupying the hill and possibly distressing the supply line of Baltimore Pike, so he decided to move in and defend it with his survived men. If General Lee’s forces reached the supply lines of the Union, and disrupted

crowds cheer, news of the South’s surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse spreads throughout the north, the Union wins the civil war, seemingly beating the much weaker south quickly and easily, to the clueless onlooker, but the war was very hard fought through deadly battles and bloodshed, with both sides coming close to beating each other out, at one point or another. To understand why the Union won the civil war, we must examine the advantages that the north had, which are, the north was much more

This analysis is about two leaders who were active in the United States civil war specifically during the capture of Columbia, South Carolina in February 16, 1865. On one side General William T. Sherman from the union Army who, on those days, had over 65,000 Soldiers assigned to accomplish the mission of capturing the city. On the other side Lieutenant General Wade Hampton, who was in Columbia, SC acting as the highest authority during the capture of the city. The events after the

Confederate leader Robert E .Lee.This battle would be marked down as one of the most important in all of the civil war. In the end the union comes away with the victory but even both sides had mass casualties. July 1st ,1863, the battle started in Gettysburg and General Lee urgently concentrated his troops in that area .His objective was to attack any and all union soldiers and destroy them .By doing this lee intended on any northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war.General

1 to 3. The Army of the Potomac, led by General George Meade, repelled the attack of the Confederate’s Army, led by General Robert E. Lee. The purpose of this paper is to examine General Lee’s effectiveness by analyzing his utilization of the mission command, and its principles. Lee’s Plan to End the War The war had been continuing for more than two years at this point. Even though Lee won a series of brilliant victories since he assumed the command, the situation was dire. The Union seemed to be

amount of time. The Union was faced with trying to defeat a secession without destroying the Confederate States with the ultimate goal of returning the states to the Union. One suggestion was made by the standing General-in Chief of the U.S. Army, Winfield Scott, to President Lincoln and later deemed the “Anaconda Plan”. The plan would not be put in action until 1862 and would contribute to the degrading of the Confederacy’s ability to wage war and ultimate surrender to the Union. In 1861, Winfield