History is history and‚ whether you like it or not‚ it will never be changed. The last few months the banning of the Confederate Flag has become a very heated topic in the United States. The flag has been banned in Alabama‚ California‚ Georgia‚ Mississippi‚ South Carolina‚ and Virginia. Problems with racism are the main reason for
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the Civil War: Fought 1861-1865‚ the American Civil War was the result of decades of sectional tensions between the North and South. Focused on slavery and states rights‚ these issues came to a head following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Over the next several months eleven southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. During the first two years of the war‚ Southern troops won numerous victories but saw their fortunes turn after losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg
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lead the campaign against the city of Charleston‚ South Carolina and he was also a Union commander. Brigadier General William Taliaferro was in charge of 1‚620 confederate soldiers and only 36 were killed. Quincy Adams Gillmore graduated first in the United States Military Academy in 1849. He then became an american civil war engineer and a general in the Union army during the civil war. He was
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generals commanding the army‚ and the army itself. On April 15‚ 1861‚ President Lincoln called on the states to provide 75‚000 militia men for 90 days to put down the rebellion of the south. On the other hand‚ the south had the state of Virginia on its side; this gave them a better chance of victory. It was the home of Robert E. Lee‚ a brave leader who had been Lincoln’s choice for commanding the union army. When Virginia seceded‚ Lee resigned from the United States army and joined the confederacy
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struggle between the North and the South. Also how it was the first modern war that was fought using technology and industry on the slaughtering fields. The union lacked a cohesive army and a good plan of attack. Once General Grant was in command for the North‚ the Confederacy was hopeless to win. The Civil War ravaged armies of the North and South‚ many Americans lost their lives which made this the most costly of all the wars in American history. The North won the war because they "adapted to the conditions
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campaigns‚ without them many men would not have been able to see their position relative to the Confederate Army. The Civil War began when the confederate nation invaded Fort Sumter in South Carolina on
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Manassas‚ Virginia railway junction. I actually travel and live in this area. The Armies in this first battle were not very large by later Civil War standards. The Federal forces under Brigadier General Irvin McDowell were organized into four divisions of about 30‚000 men. These divisions were commanded by Tyler‚ Hunter‚ Heintzelman‚ and Miles. The Confederate command structure was somewhat more unwieldy‚ including two "armies"‚ with no division structure and thirteen independent brigades under Bonham
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a fourth event I feel was significant to the turning of the war. Antietam and Emancipation The Union and Confederate Armies met at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg‚ Maryland‚ on September 17‚ 1862‚ in the bloodiest single day of the war: more than 4‚000 died on both sides and 18‚000 were wounded. McClellan failed
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War. A General of the Union army named William Tecumseh Sherman helped lead a campaign that started in Georgia go the sea in Savannah‚ and finish to help aid the main forces in the Carolinas. During this march the soldiers lived off the land and the Southern people’s food and burning anything that could be of military use to the South’s forces. This march helped decisively end the war‚ and struck many blows to the South’s forces and its people’s morale‚ that Sherman’s army could march unopposed through
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into the civil war‚ African Americans‚ the confederate states and people’s perception of Abraham Lincoln. However the effects of the emancipation proclamation can be regarded as insignificant in terms of the scale of the effect. The emancipation proclamation changed the civil war drastically. It gave the union a more moral position in the civil war and also gave them the upper hand in terms of military as it allowed black people to join the union army‚ which would of increased the amount of soldier
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