Confederate States Army

single day battle to every occur on American soil. Approximately 22,700 men were killed, wounded, captured, or missing. (Brochure) The fighting began on September 17, 1862 in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The opposing armies, The Army of the Potomac, consisting of about 90,000 troops, and The Army of Northern Virginia, consisting of about 45,000 troops. The Battle of Antietam, or The Battle of Sharpsburg, was actually the ending battle of General Robert E. Lee’s Campaign. (MacDonald, 56) Lee had…

that opened the door to enlistment of African American men in the Union army the following year. By August of 1863, Douglass would be making his case for equal pay for black soldiers to Secretary of War Stanton and to President Lincoln in person, within the walls of the White House itself. September, 1861; I found it! It wasn't a letter to Lincoln; it was an essay in Douglass' monthly newspaper, called "Fighting…

Soldiers brought fiddles, guitars, and banjos to pass the time. The United States made it a mandatory regulation that ever regiment of infantry and artillery must have a brass band with twentyfour members and cavalry must have sixteen members. Camp was thought as a safe place, rarely were there attacks on a camp, Dealton Cooper…

abolitionist program would impel border states to the confederacy. In other words, his biggest concern was keeping the union united and strong, not to abolish or keep slavery. Meanwhile, Lincoln crafted his own emancipation in which the slaves were to be freed by state action, slave owners to be reimbursed, the government was to share the financial burden, and all freed slaves were to colonize abroad. Congress was willing to fund Lincoln’s plan, however the southern states wanted nothing to do…

The Civil War was between the Confederates (South) and Union (North). It started April 12, 1861 and ended May 9, 1865. The Civil War took place in the United States; more than 620,000 soldiers died. It all started when Confederate troops fired on Fort, Sumter, at the U.S military post in Charleston, South Carolina. Slavery had been an issue from 1619-1865. Some people think the Civil War was about the slaves freedom, others thought it was about state’s rights(Allen 1). Slaves usually lived a…

While the people of the South have an opposite and repugnant memory of the man, they blame for “scorching” the South. Despite personal opinions of General William Sherman, his shocking tactics and dreadful techniques were necessary to save the United States of America and bring about the end of the Civil War. William Tecumseh Sherman was born February 8, 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was one of eleven children when his father…

Arkansas in march 1862. WOn the battle and it ment that there would be no confederate empire beyond texas. The battle of Shiloh in Tenesee marked the end of the confederate 's bid to controll the western theater. The far west and most of the Mississippi valley was the unions. Since the confederates were blockaded in they made a deal with Britain that allowed them to build ships in there. It did not do much for the confederates though as the unions navy kept on building. The south was hopeing…

with the Union’s significantly favored army and navy, as well as their stronger, newer technology and industrial equipment. The South, consisting of fewer states, and less territory, naturally had a smaller population to work with. Additionally, seeing that a large majority of that population consisted of slaves, who were not permitted to fight in the Confederate forces, this population of those fit to fight shrunk even smaller. The CSA, or Confederate States of America, led by Jefferson Davis,…

There was three different battles the Confederate army and the Union fought each battle was fought in a different place on different days.The Union had many advantages such as the geography of gettysburg.The Union had a smaller army than the Confederate army.This war killed soldiers,generals and the morale of both the Union and the Confederacy. It also helped show that Robert E. Lee could be defeated and that sometimes risk is necessary to win. The Confederates lost this battle and suffered…

altogether when the war-averse Peace Democrats won the election of 1864. Secondly, Sherman’s March to the Sea is justifiable as a result of its complete and utter success at achieving Sherman and Grant’s goals of uniting the Union and crushing both Confederate morale and the South’s ability to continue to wage the war. The destruction of Southern homes brought the war to the people, leading them to want a quick end to the war and stop supporting it as rigorously as they had in the past.…