Irvin McDowell

There was a four-year bloody battle during the civil war. Both the northerners and southerner took fighting each other very seriously, and they both thought it would be a short war and minimal casualties, but that did not become the case. When the southerners talked about the northerners, they called them cowards and they did not think that they had the courage and strength to sustain in a long drawn out battle. The northerners really expected the southerner will to fight to weaken quickly and…

American Civil War – Gowtham Venkatachalam The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. The American civil war was the bloodiest war in American history which wiped out 3% of the USA’s population. The civil war was an unintended, but fortunate war that granted some of the freedoms that the United States has come to symbolize. (World to text…

Sumter, the Confederate armies of Generals Joseph E. Johnston and Pierre G. T. Beauregard met the Union armies of Generals Irvin McDowell and Robert Patterson at Bull Run on July 21, 1861. Bull Run was a location in Virginia, a mere 25 miles southwest of Washington. At this battle, sitting on a hill overlooking the battlefield, there were many spectators from Washington who had…

civil war 1961-1965. It was a war between the Confederacy and the Union. They fought over slavery rights. Leading towards the Civil War, 11 states succeeds from the Union. The Union Army under Gen. Irvin McDowell. They suffered a defeat at Bull Run. Abraham Lincoln was made the 16th president of the United States. He also wrote the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865. He was wounded badly and died the next…

The union had an advantage in geography. In the south, there was no other land surrounding their land, there was only water. The union used this to their advantage. They used a blockade strategy which was when they surrounded the land and prevented goods, troops, and weapons from entering the southern states. Abraham Lincoln announced that they would be using this plan on April 19, 1861. The Union first traveled down the Mississippi River into New Orleans and gained control of the Mississippi…

Abraham Lincoln decided to run for president in 1860. With the help of many political figures, Lincoln beat out the other Republican candidates, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates, to become the Republican nominee for the presidential election on May 18, 1860. Lincoln then had to face three other opponents in the general election, who were John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Lincoln’s rival, Stephen Douglas. At the end of the election, Lincoln received only forty percent of…

Gods and Generals centralizes around the involvement of four generals during the Civil War, Lee, Jackson, Chamberlain, and Hancock. Each general is intrinsically motivated by their own personal crisis, which leads them to choose a side to fight for. Some are Unionists, while others are sectionalists. Lee and Jackson sided with the Confederacy while Chamberlain and Hancock sided with the Union. Beginning with John Brown 's raid of Harper’s Ferry, America was hurling into a war. Lincoln 's…

Union Strategy 1861 – 1862: Lincoln and the Union high commands initial strategic proposal came from Major General Winfield Scott. The general-in-chief of the proposed “Anaconda Plan.” Scott’s master vision was an 80,000 man army pushing down the Mississippi River, severing the Confederacy in half while the Union navy instituted a blockade to suffocate and cut of the South’s trade. One factor that Scott and many of his staff thought was unique in the war was that a bulk of Southerners were…