Army of Northern Virginia

The Union army suffered 14,000 casualties and the Confederacy suffered 10,000 casualties during the Battle of Chancellorsville. This battle started when General Joseph Hooker crossed the Rappahannock River and began to move behind Robert E. Lee’s confederate army, which put his troops in northern Virginia in great danger. Although Hooker’s plan was very well executed, Robert Lee’s strategic brilliance and instinct saved him because he split his force leaving 10,000 troops to hold the Union at…

African-Americans served in the Civil War on both the Union and the Confederate side. In the Union army, over 179,000 African American men served in the army, as well as more serving in the Navy and in other support positions. African-Americans who fought in the war were free northern citizens and runaway slaves from the south. In the south for the Confederacy many African-Americans still saw the bonds of slavery and were forced to serve mostly…

12, 1861 near Charleston, South Carolina. The Confederate Army invaded Fort Sumter with 500 soldiers and ending up facing only eighty Union Soldiers. At the end of the battle, there were no deaths or casualties but it did signify the start of the Civil War. 2. Being the first battle to involve any casualties, the First Battle of Bull Run took place July 21, 1861 in Manassas, Virginia. This battle resulted in a win for the Confederate Army leaving the Union with small hopes for a short war…

soldiers crossed the Potomac River in Virginia and began to make their way toward the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania (The Gettysburg Foundation). This epic battle was three days long and resulted in a retreat to Virginia by Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Just two months prior to the Gettysburg battle, Lee had dealt a stunning defeat to the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville, Virginia. The battle started on the first of July when Lee took his army to…

after routing the Union Army of Virginia under Major General John Pope, General Lee led his own Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac into Maryland. Reasons for this assault included taking strain off the Shenandoah Valley which was referred to as” The Breadbasket of the Confederacy” during the harvest time. Believing the directed Union Army would require necessary time to rebuild after the difficult conflict, Lee took the courageous step of separating his own army and sending portions to…

U.S. Army engineer, railroad president and politician who served as a major general and contributed greatly to the outcome of the Civil War. He was a great strategist who didn’t want lives to be lost in vain. He was beloved by his soldiers because they felt that he cared a lot about their lives. McClellan would do everything in his power to ensure that he could keep as many of his soldiers alive as he could; because of this he was very cautious and it took him a long time to prepare his army for…

: Robert E. Lee was the Civil War's finest general, he was the best at the organization of war. As the country's most experienced general in 1861, he said no President Lincoln's offer to become leader the Union Army, even though he did not like slavery. As leader of the Confederate Army, Lee came across to other people as a strong leader. Why did the Civil War start?…

Lee, failed his second invasion of the North, and he had to retreat back to Virginia after the devastating loss. After Lee’s victory at Chancellorsville, Virginia, Lee looked to attempt a second invasion of the North. The Confederates looked for supplies in the open farmland of Pennsylvania, and hoped to take the war off the destroyed Virginia farmland. But most importantly, Robert looked to get a victory on Northern soil, and hopefully put pressure on Abraham Lincoln. The fighting…

the American Civil War to an end. On April 12 Confederates sent warships to stop the supply to Fort Sumter and opened up a bombardment, The Civil War was now commenced. On April 15, Lincoln asked for over 75,000 volunteers to conjoin the Northern Army. Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee rendered their ties to the federal government. The Battle of Gettysburg was considered to be the most important battle of the Civil War because one of the main reasons is that it was the turning…

southern states and the northern states. The south were part of the Confederate States of America and the north were part of the United States of America. The main reason for the war were to protect slavery for the south and the north believed otherwise. Slavery in Virginia became one of the main states that were center of attention during the Civil War. The north were determined to abolish slavery and the south became outraged at the thought of not having slaves. Virginia were one of the…