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The Battle of Vicksburg was a great battle and I, Lt. Pete Taylor Adams was able to fight in it. This battle took place in Vicksburg and Warren County, Mississippi. This was a long hard fought battle between the Confederate army and the Union army. I am fighting for the Confederate side and this is my first battle in the Civil War. I have missed my family through this journey and I hope after this battle I will still be alive to see them. I have fought in the Mexican-American war, which was very…

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.…

Gettysburg. The first division was spotted by Union cavalry commander General Buford. Buford sent his men and called for reinforcements immediately. A Union officer saw the Confederate infantry marching toward them amongst the early morning mist. “He rested a carbine on a fence rail and fired. It was the first shot in what became the largest battle in the history of the western hemisphere.” The Confederate troops reacted and the ordered for attack on the Union cavalry line in force. Such,…

views from the the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South). During this war there was countless American lives taken and countless battles, but one battle that probably stands out more than others is The Battle of Gettysburg for many reasons. Why do historians and many others consider The Battle of Gettysburg to be the bloodiest of all battles in the Civil War and turning point for the Union in the War. The Battle of Gettysburg lasted three days ,with over ten thousand Union and Confederated…

The Union army suffered 14,000 casualties and the 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…

biggest battle ever fought in North America? There were 160,000 men that fought in the battle. The Union Army was led by Major General Gordon Meade and had 85,000 men. The Confederate Army was led by General Robert Lee and had 75,000. men. The battle occurred the first three days in July of 1863. This was General Lee and the Confederate Army’s second attack in the North. General Lee led the Confederate Army to the North to fight to pressure Abraham Lincoln to end the war. There were three…

were three days. The Confederate army led by Robert E. Lee was dominating Union forces and were headed to invade the North. Panic arose in the Northern states and people began to flee towns. Lincoln had to make a decision and be hasty. He appointed General George Meade to lead the Union army to the Battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The chaos which soon ensued on July 1863 would be a key factor to the Confederate States’ downfall. It is not very likely that the Union would be able to come out…

In 1860, just a few years preceding the Civil war, the Union Army numbers totaled in about 16,000 men (Newell, 2014). To prepare for the unavoidable conflict with the Confederate States, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to enlist and in the next three years, congress authorized the acceptance of one million soldiers (Calabresi & Bobbit, 1978). To supplement this demand in man power, congress passed the Militia Act of 1862 which empowered the President to direct the States…

During the Civil War, spies were needed in order to keep up with the opposing side 's stratagem and technique of fighting. The Union side was fighting for the freedom of slaves, so the majority of the time Union female spies were working to free the slaves. The Union even had a female soldier that was only participating in the war due to her opinion about it which was, “slavery was an awful thing.” The Confederacy was against the abolition of slaves, they believed slavery was necessary to keep…

the Union, and the Confederacy which was another name for the north The battle of Gettysburg acted as a separating agent for the two armies, and after the battle, the north regained the upper hand. The battle was so effective for an enormous array of reasons, one of which being the geography of the battlefield, the undulating elevation of the ground made for an entire battlefield of upper ground. Secondly, death, obviously a large part of the battle, quite literally a no brainer, both armies…