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to organize and prepare to join the Union’s army in the Civil War. The assault on Battery Wagner would be the first Civil War battle in which black troops had the opportunity to demonstrate that they could equal their white comrades in courage and determination. President Lincoln would believe the Emancipation Proclamation was a morally correct path. President Abraham Lincoln attempted to frame the Emancipation Proclamation as way to preserve the Union and fend off state secession versus the abolition

which were at war was the union and the confederacy. Which was basically the United States separated into 2 sections going at war with each other. In this document, I will speak about those people who were involved on the battlefield towards the end of the war. The war started in 1861 and was beginning to end by January of 1865. By then, Federal (Federal was another name given to the Union Army) armies were spread throughout the Confederacy and the Confederate Army had lost a lot of men. In

In September of 1863 Major General William S. Rosecrans was on a roll. He and his Union Army of the Cumberland had initiated their campaign in Tennessee against Confederate General Braxton Bragg in December of the previous year. After fighting a major battle at Murfreesboro (Stones River) and maneuvering adroitly to force the Confederates out of Tullahoma and then Chattanooga, Rosecrans had driven Bragg's army completely out of Tennessee and into northern Georgia. But now Bragg was through retreating

The war had begun in the spring of 1861 and somewhat ominously for the Union. 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. Johnston reasoned that keeping his troops closer to Washington was no longer an advantage. Johnston's move may have been the result of an economic consideration. Lee was sent to west Texas

that so many people seemed to think it was slavery that brought on the war, when all it was really was a question of the Constitution” (Shaara 57) or “I was trying to warn you. But... you have no Cause. You and I, we have no Cause. We have only the army. But if a soldier fights only for soldiers, he cannot ever win. It is only the soldiers who die” (Shaara 255) Longstreet’s motives, similar to Lee's, is to fight the war to defend his home against invasion and to preserve Southern honor. Unable to

Confederate army, ordered for the Union’s surrender of the Fort. However, Major Robert Anderson stood his front and refused to surrender which resulted in the Confederates opening fire on the Fort on April 12. Major Robert Anderson was unable to return the gunfire for the first two hours as the fort lacked ammunition and fuses. Abner DoubleDay, who was captain of the Union army, was the one who fired the first shot to defend the fort. The firing continued all day but lessened as the Union Army had to

finally end the fighting. The circumstances that initiated the war created a figurative and literal divide unlike America had ever seen. The American Civil War took heavy tolls on the Union and Confederate States of America. Desperate to end the bloodshed, President Abraham Lincoln trusted Ulysses S. Grant control of the Army and Grant authorized Sherman the freedom to do whatever necessary to bring conclusion to the conflict (Davis 22). In the military mind of Sherman, the end justified the means and

exists. One may see the verdict of hindsight view passive strategy unfavorably, like General George McClellan who built the Union army in the early stages of the war but was a lethargic and fearful field commander who seemed incapable of gathering the courage to assertively take on Confederate General Robert E. Lee, an American soldier best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia; others are indicted on being too reckless. Shelby Foote, an American historian and novelist, describes

from a villain? When assessing William Tecumseh Sherman’s goals and actions on the battle field, the lines aren’t always so clear. General Sherman commanded the Union army during the bloodiest war in American history: the Civil War. His march to the sea during the fall and winter of 1864 stands out as one of the pivotal successes for the Union, because of the brilliant tactics used to expose weakness in the Confederacy. Cutting off his supply lines, he led 62,000 soldiers from Atlanta to Savanna to

military actions of the Civil War. Historians may debate the level of devastation that union soldiers forced on the civilian population during the march, but Sherman’s desire to “rip the heart out of the Confederate war effort” succeeded (Simon & Schurst). General William Tecumseh Sherman understood the effectiveness of bringing home the war to the people of