Union Army

the union army of west Tennessee advanced toward Corinth, Mississippi, where the confederates were planning to strike back. Road to Shiloh- On march 4, 1862 the victor at Fort Donelson Ulysses S. Grant was relieved of his command by Henry W. Halleck for alleged neglect and inefficiency, but the decision was reversed under the pressure from President. By early April, Grant was back to command at Pittsburg Landing on the west bank of Tennessee. Halleck ordered Don Carlos Buell to march his army of…

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 come out in their Sunday best with picnic lunches on their carriages to watch their Union boys win and get the…

An estimated 90,000 Union troops lined out along the hills separating General Lee’s army from the Country’s capital, Washington D.C. An estimated 70,000 Confederate troops attacked at various parts of the Union stand. The heaviest fighting took place on the Union’s left flank. While many more fierce fights took place at Little Round Top, Devil’s Den, the Wheatfield…

Chancellorsville,Virginia, in May 1863, Lee wanted to lead his Confederate army in their second invasion of the North the Gettysburg Campaign. Lee wanted to threaten Northern cities, weaken the North’s appetite for war and, especially win a major battle on Northern soil. Maj. Gen. Meade moved the Northern army between Lee and Washington D.C. When Lee found out the Meade was in Pennsylvania, Lee concentrated all of his army around Gettysburg (www.civilwar.org). Most people know that the Battle of…

Another battle that the Confederates won was Chancellorsville. Hurst describes how the Union was not prepared for the battle and that contributed to their downfall which the Confederates could interpret as an excuse. “The truth was that neither the commander of the corps nor of the respective divisions whose duty it was to guard the flank had made any preparation to meet the enemy in that direction; The attack of his massed column of 20,000 was a surprise from which the men could not recover- a…

also known as the Battle of Manassas due to its proximity to the city of Manassas, Virginia, and it is the first major victory of the confederacy against the Union. These two battles were the first major land battles of the Civil War. The union army was under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell who marched from Washington against the confederate army . The confederate victory gave the South a surge of confidence and shocked many in the North . There were two Battles of Bull Run, however, the first battle…

what the Civil War was really like for the enlisted soldiers of the Union. In this essay, the diaries will be analyzed to determine how the war affected the two men and their companies. The main points of analysis will review the war strategies used by Haas and Strong’s companies, the attitudes held by the Confederates and Yankee soldiers, and negative and positive circumstances that ultimately led to the defeat of the Confederate army. The first account to be examined is Jacob Haas’ diary.…

war in the Overland Campaign was the Battle of the Wilderness.Midnight on May 3-4, 1864, the Army of the Potomac and the Independent Ninth Corps, with approximately 120,000 men, left camps in Culpeper County and headed south toward the Rapidan River fords. They fought in the dense thickets known as the Wilderness of Spotsylvania against the Army of Northern Virginia. Over the course of two days, the armies fought an extremely bloody battle, introducing a new era of violence in the war in the…

“The Boy’s War”, and there is a reason behind that name. It is said that at least 100,00, or 20%, of soldiers in the civil war were under the legal age of eighteen (PBS.org). Both the Union army and Confederate army loosely followed that rule. It seems as though the Confederate ignored this rule more than the Union. According to Confederate Cavalrymen of the Civil War, “The men ranged in age from a bottom limit of 13 and an upper limit of 58…”. Even though the legal was eighteen, many…

The Union suffered just under 13,000 casualties to the Confederacy's 5,300. At the outset of the battle Union general, Ambrose Burnside tried to cross Rappahannock River but was delayed because of the wait for pontoons to arrive, which took 10 days. When they finally did arrive and they started to build along the river, the Union army faced great resistance from Mississippians. Burnside ordered the town to be shelled and using a total war tactic, injured and killed many. When the Union army…