Army of Northern Virginia

made a vast fortune on slavery and its commodities. It wasn’t until the South decided to leave the Union the North objected because the North knew it couldn’t survive without southern money. And finally, many northern civilians owned slaves prior to, during and even after the War of Northern Aggression. Most Union Generals and staff had slaves a few by name are: William T. Sherman had many slaves that served him until well after the war was over and did not free them until late 1865. U.S. Grant…

take the perspective of John Preston Smith. Smith wrote an address to the Convention of Virginia to address in summary, the expansion for non-slave holding states (Smith 1). Smith begins his address explaining the history of Virginia and her alliances with other states. He attempts to persuade the President and Virginia of reasoning for maintaining the slave system the two states shared. In his defense for Virginia, there are four lengthy arguments he made regarding the slave system. First, in…

Turner was born on October 17th of 1800. Turner was born into slavery. When Nat was born his mother tried to kill him rather than having him to see him grow up a slave. The book does not tell much about Turners father only that he later escaped to a northern state. The book does give quite a bit of background information on Turners mother, Nancy. Nancy was not born a slave she was brought to America in 1795. Nancy was purchased by a man named Benjamin Turner. Benjamin Turner was a very wealthy…

place between the northern Union and the southern Confederate Armies with both sides gaining and losing ground on an ever-changing basis. As the fighting continued, the Confederacy was striving for legitimacy from Europe (Lanning, Historyplace.com). To achieve this legitimacy the South decided to advance into the North and attack the Union troops on their own soil (Lanning, Historyplace.com). This was the reasoning to begin the Maryland Campaign in 1862; to fight the northern Army on their own…

Ulysses S. Grant played a major role in the northern states winning the Civil War. Grant was General of the Union Army during the Civil War, and he was a quite successful General. It was because of General Grant and his men that General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia finally surrendered at the Appomattox Court House. With the start of the Civil War in 1861 Ulysses S. Grant jumped at the opportunity to be a part of the Union Army. The first commanding post that he had was…

The Union’s past failures had pushed Lincoln to the brink of collapse. He had expressed heavily that the key to the Union’s failures was the slowness of the Union army. Lincoln wanted his field commanders to set a trap for the enemy when they were invading the Union’s land, Lincoln also wanted his commanders to block the Confederate’s retreat route. On April 9, 1862, Lincoln sent a telegram to one of his struggling…

America, composed of eleven Southern states that proclaimed its independence. In 1859, John Brown, a supporter of abolitionism, had tried to start a rebellion of slaves in Virginia attacking an ammunition dump of the army. Brown was quickly caught, tried and sentenced to the gallows, after which many inhabitants of northern what cheered as a martyr. Douglas ordered to Democrats southerners to stay in the Union, but these by its part appointed its own presidential candidate…

Booth at the Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. 2. George Washington (1732-1799) became commander-in-chief, during the American Revolution, of the Continental Army. He also became the first president of the United States of America, with John Adams, formerly running against him, as his Vice President. He first wanted to be part of the British Army, but then the Revolution occurred and he later became one of many who wanted separation from Great Britain and to become Independent. 3.…

to Northern Virginia to this famous battle. This was a battle that took place over three days in the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. Led by General George Gordon Meade the Battle of Gettysburg was turning point of the civil war, which successfully stopped the Southern Confederate Armies led by General Robert E. Lee from taking over the north which “wanted to threaten Northern cities, weaken the North 's appetite for war and, especially, win a major battle on Northern…

1824. He was the son of a court clerk and farmer, but had dreams of being in the army. In 1843 Burnside began his journey by receiving an appointment to west point, a United States Military Academy. To say he had a hard time is an understatement. After nearly being expelled several times, he ultimately graduated in 1847 at the middle of his class - 18th out of 38 students. Burnside began his career in the Army as a Brevet Second Lieutenant, and had his first career engagement in Veracruz,…