Robert E. Howard

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 bay. The reason this battle took place was because…

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 major casualties during it.The Confederate’s suffered far more casualties and injuries than the Union and they lost the…

had casualties on both sides measuring up to more than 22,000 missing, wounded, or dead. On that individual day, September 17, 1862, more American blood was shed than on any other single day ever. The generals for this infamous battle were General Robert Edward Lee for the Confederate army and General George McClellan for the…

mchair civil war nerd here. General Grant was a brilliant general and changed military tactics during the Civil War. Though, the civil war itself were changing how people perceived war (aka rifles and precise cannons). Early in the war, Grant was an unknown general in the west. He later gain fame with the successful strikes at Fort Henry and Donelson. However, Grant and the army ran into trouble when attacking Corinth, Mississippi. The army was caught unaware and the bloodbath of Shiloh took…

Freedman’s Village laid on shall become the new military center for armed forces. Robert E. Lee lost all of his ownership to the property until the end of the war but at which point the house wasn’t seized without due process and resulted in the congressional act of the United States Supreme Court in U.S. vs. Lee they then authorize a purchase of the plantation from General George Washington C. Lee, General Robert E. Lee’s eldest son for $150,000. Finally, in 1933 the National Parks Serve…

Richmond, being the capital of the Confederate States of American, was a central fighting ground during the civil war. In 1854, the city of Richmond opened Oakwood Cemetery as a public burial ground for the entire city and the Committee on Burying Grounds was put in charge of overseeing the administration and affairs of Oakwood and the other cemeteries in the area (1). When the war broke out, a lot of blood was shed on Richmond’s soil. Therefor, in 1861, the committee offered to have the…

On July 16, 1861, the new Union volunteer army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington DC toward the Confederate army under Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard, drawn up behind Bull Run creek west of Centreville. Beauregard's men defended the strategic railroad junction at Manassas, just west of the creek. On July 17th, McDowell sent a small force across Bull Run at Blackburn's Ford to test the Confederate defenses. A brief skirmish ensured, with light casualties and little result.…

Chester A. Arthur was born on October 5, 1829, and died on November 18, 1886. He was an American attorney and politician. He served as the 21st president from September 19, 1881 to March 4, 1885. He was born in Fairfield Vermont, and grew up in New York. He also practiced law in New York City. He served as a quartermaster general in the New York Militia during the American Civil War. After the war, he put more time to Republican politics and quickly rose in the political machine run by New York…

plan had become more complex than the plot that was drafted by himself and president Davis, thus requiring more meticulous operational preparedness from hood. Lt. Gen hood strategic goal was to get to Nashville to aid general Robert lee’s army at Virginia, by tactically taking advantage of the current position of the union forces to engage them separately, before they could converge with Thomas at Nashville. Hood planned to march to Tuscumbia so as to wait for supplies and Forest cavalry to…

enough, they started shooting. There was a lot of shots fired too. A At the beginning I was worried about Lee out thinking us, but our general out thought him this time. This was the first time in the war that a Union general out thought the “great” Robert E. Lee. We put the Confederates back on their heels, and won that battle. Now we had total…