The first battle of the Union and the Confederate took place in July 1861 called the First Battle of Bull Run. General Irvin McDowell had to do what Abraham Lincoln ordered him to, which was to beat the Confederates for Richmond. During the search for the Confederates, McDowell complained about how his 35,000 soldiers are stopping to pick berries and drink water too much.

The Union Army finally met the Confederates 25 miles to southwest of Washington, near Manassas, Virginia. The Confederates 35,000 soldiers ran and attacked McDowell’s and were losing. Then one of the soldiers saw General “Stonewall” Jackson with his army. They attacked with the Confederates and the Union lost the battle that they thought was going to win fast and easy.

In February 1862, General Ulysses S. Grant led the Union to Tennessee, hoping to capture two of the forts he wants-Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. With the help of Union navy gunboats, Grant took Fort Henry on Febr

The other battle was called the Seven Days Battle. This battle occurred in Virginia on June 26, 1862. As McDowell’s army fought General Jeb Stuart’s, the Confederates failed to do an attack and they lost over 20,000 soldiers. Although they lost many men, General Robert E. Lee forced McDowell to retreat, leaving with nearly 16,000 men gone.

As the Confederates were on a roll, they had confidence of beating the Union on their land, but the soldiers were tired and hungry. Nearly 40,000 men suffered.

In the spring of 1863, from the Mississippi River, General Grant marched east to Jackson. His attack pinned down southern forces based there and denied reinforcements to Vicksburg, Grant then surrounded Vicksburg with his troops in mid-May. The Siege of Vicksburg had begun. The war has lasted around six weeks. As the supplies ran out, the Confederates were eating horses, rats, and dogs. With the pressure of sickness and hunger, the Confederates surrendered Vicksburg on July 4, 1863.

While the two armies fought for land, the North was in control of the sea. Their main purpose was to block the South from trading so their wages will be lowered severely. The South tried to lose the North’s ships with their blockade-runners. These blockade-runners can outrun the great warships of North, but the blockade-runners didn’t make up for the whole loss trade. The Confederate then decided to build themselves ironclads, heavily armored with iron ships. With these, they stole the Union’s ship, Merrimack, and turned it into an ironclad they named the Virginia. In early 1862, in Hampton near Chesapeake, the Unions ships were waiting for the Confederate’s. When the Confederates arrived, the fight begun quickly. By nightfall, Virginia had sunk two boats while getting some minor damage. A Swedish engineer had built

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