... in a Confederate victory. The success of Lee's victory encouraged him to renew the battle on July 2, 1863. Lee ordered the corps to cut off the Union at Little Round Top, while Ewell was ordered to conduct a demonstration against the Union. The Union army was well prepared for Lee's attack. General Meade, who ... had just taken over for the Union, ordered his men and other troops to form a hook shape around the Battle area. The Unions effort to storm the Cemetery Hill, where they ... hold he Union Army from its strong positions. Now, Lee's confidence had been shaken, loosing 9,000 men th...

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... 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 ... from Tennessee. After attempting to try to destroy the forts, he failed, so he decided to sail past them. On April 24, 1862, Farragut ordered his warships to advance. The Confederates fought hard to stop Farragut from reaching New Orleans, but Farragut cleared the forts and moved on. When they reac...

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... seemed doomed. The North, victory in sight, closed the recruiting offices. While McClellan inched towards Richmond, Lee was acting as Davis's advisor. Lee ordered Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, an eccentric hero of Bull Run, to tie up union armis invadeing the Shenandoah Valley. With about 15,000 men Jackson ... before taking the position Wilimington was blockaded and destin to fall. Lee made strides though getting the south to free slaves willing to fight. Lee ordered Johnston out of retirement and had him oragnize an army in North Carolina. Sherman began a march through South Carolina, c...

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... of 'Total Warfare' As his army marched through the South, they destroyed any material or resource that may be useful to his opposition. He ordered fields burned, animals slaughtered, bridges blown up, and railroad beds destroyed. Sherman ordered his army to be as least destructive as possible; he defied military principles, and stopped the South from being able to wage war. Sherman ... never wanted for total destruction to occur. He ordered his men to the best of his ability and taught them everything he could. In Source #1 one line spoke such greatness of Sherman, "In all foraging, of ...

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... New York (Gunn). Obtaining the rank of General on 21 July 1861, he was "junior only to Samuel Cooper, A.S. Johnston, Robert E. Lee and J.E. Johnston ("Pierre Beauregard"). He was almost immediately ordered to Manassas, Virginia to command at the First Bull Run, though he was superseded at the last moment by J.E. Johnston ("Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard: 1818-1893-). However, during the battle ... Coast of Florida. For over a year and a half he held this position, working determinedly to defend Charleston from Naval and ground troops (Sifakis, Stewart). In April of 1864 he was ordere...

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... was Chamberlain, Hooker, Reynolds, Tyler, Hunter, Heintelman, and Miles. There were incredible moves made by the generals. Although most were successful, some moves were also disadvantageous. For example, the Confederates ordered General Pickett to make a charge on the Union center on Cemetary Ridge with Pickett's division and A.P. Hill's unit. According to Marshal, author of Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War ... -Vol.2: Lee ordered General Stuart's cavalry to head east and strike southward to reach the Union's rear. Each commander had planned to initiate an attack on the othe...

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... nine Americans, including York's best friend in the outfit, Murray Savage. Sergeant Early received seventeen bullet wounds and turned the command over to corporals Harry Parsons and William Cutting, who ordered York to silence the machine gun. York was successful and when all was said and done, nine men had captured 132 prisoners. For his heroism, Alvin York was awarded the ... establish the York Relief Fund to help cancel the debt. In 1961, the matter was brought to the attention of President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy called the matter a national disgrace and ordered that the matter be ...

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... heavy casualties on both sides, the Federals were pushed back to the town of Gettysburg and regrouped south of the town along the high ground near the cemetery. General Lee ordered Confederate General R.S. Ewell to take over the high ground. However, General Ewell hesitated to attack. That gave the Union troops a chance to dig in along Cemetery Ridge and bring in ... to attack the Union Army's defensive position at the southern end of Cemetery Ridge, which he thought it was less defended. Around 10 a.m., the next morning July 2, General Lonstreet was ordered by General Lee to attack. Ho...

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... was voted into office. Most of America liked Lincoln as a change from all the politicians they were used to. After Lincoln was elected president, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This ordered the release of all slaves who were not in previously set aside slave states. It went on to say that these released slaves would become normal citizens, having was slave ... him down on a sofa. Dr. Mudd examined Booth's leg and concluded that it was broken at about a 90-degree angle. Mudd fixed the wound as well as he could and ordered his white servant to make a crutch for Booth to use. Dr....

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... , but was shot and killed. "The townspeople, many of whom had been drinking all day on this unofficial holiday, used Leeman's body for target practice"(Genovesa 238). Authorities in Washington ordered Colonel Robert E. Lee to Harper's Ferry with a force of Marines to crush Brown's Rebellion. Lee's first action was to close the town's saloons in order to stop the town from ... drinking, and causing random violence. "At 6:30 on the morning of Tuesday, October 18, Lee ordered Lieutenant Israel Green and a group of men to storm the engine house" (Annenberg 364). At a signal from Lieutenant S...

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... . Sherman was placed in command of the Fifth Division of that army. In the spring of 1864, Sherman was made supreme commander of the armies in the West, and was ordered by Grant to "create havoc and destruction of all resources that would be beneficial to the enemy". With 98,797 troops, and 254 cannons, on May 4, 1864, Sherman began the ... didn't do any better at stopping Sherman. Finally, on Sept. 1, 1864, Sherman captured Atlanta, but not before Hood destroyed the railroad yards. Sherman said that Atlanta was a military encampment and ordered all of the civilians to leave the city no ...

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... establishing them as ladinos were forged. The judge, persuaded by this evidence, concluded that even under Spanish law, the Mendians were free men, and ordered President Van Buren to have them transported back to Africa. Van Buren ordered the government's lawyers to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Attorney Roger Sherman Baldwin and President John Quincy Adams, took the case to ... ...

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... the expense of almost 9000 casualties. The third day of the battle found Lee unshaken by the previous days events. Lee ordered a reinforced division led by Longstreet to continue the assault on the Fed left. At the same time he ordered General Ewell to storm Culps hill. The Feds were determined to hold their position and await Lee's attack. General Meade also ... ...

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... of war in the North would solve the supplies problem, possibly bringing foreign recognition for the South and maybe strengthening the peace movement in the Union. In late June, Lee ordered his troops to move in Pennsylvania to confront General Meade's Army of the Potomac near Gettysburg. The place and timing of the battle were an accident. Meade's advance cavalry held ... the Confederate armies failed in their goal, General Lee used the night of July 3 to prepare for the next day's attack, which never came. On the night of July 4, Lee ordered the retreat to Virginia. The Confederate arm...

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... general of the volunteers. At one point Grant was thinking of leaving the army, but after a talk with Sherman, Grant decided to stay. When the fighting started at Vicksburg, Sherman ordered a failed assault at Chickasaw Bluff. After this failure, John A McCiernand replaced Sherman. McCiernand listened to Sherman's advice and attacked Arkansas Post. Grant initially objected to the move and called it ... . Sherman then faced off against Joseph E Johnson's army and forced them all the way back to Atlanta. It took three assaults before Sherman won the battle for Atlanta. Sherman then ordered...

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... Cady Stanton and her husband attended the World Anti-Slavery Conference in London. When women from the American delegation of the conference were denied a place in the convention they were ordered to sit in a reserved area off to the side. The men accompanying this group of women, William Llyod Garrison and Wendell Phillips, refused to participate in the conference due to ... ...

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Given that the Constitution was strongly swayed by slave-owners, the Constitution is Pro-Slavery because slaveholders controlled the bureaus and ordered the policy of the Government enforcing the stability and repercussion of the Nation to the provision of slavery here and there; overriding the rights of the Free States, and thus ... ...

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... by the kitchen door, and Mas'r came along, and said I was feeding him up at his expense, and that he couldn't afford to have every nigger keeping his dog, and ordered me to tie a stone to his neck and throw him in the pond."  "O, George, you didn't do it!"  "Do it? Not I! – But he did. Mas'r and Tom pelted the ... ...

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... sides to begin to maneuver towards and around Gettysburg. Major General Heth and his soldiers had started the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Before the fighting began General Lee ordered his leader to not engage the Union soldiers because he was still in the process of assembling his full force to move against the Union forces. However later actions taken ... ...

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... and influential news writer spoke out against Lincoln ignoring the ruling Lincoln had him thrown in jail for two years without a trial. His generals also tended to ignore what he ordered preferring to do what they thought best leading to the first year and a half of the war resulting in many Union defeats. This left Lincoln an unpopular figure unlike and ... ...

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... Cady Stanton and her husband attended the World Anti-Slavery Conference in London. When women from the American delegation of the conference were denied a place in the convention they were ordered to sit in a reserved area off to the side. The men accompanying this group of women, William Llyod Garrison and Wendell Phillips, refused to participate in the conference due to ... ...

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... his troops and joined Lee while General A.P Hill stayed behind to oversee the Union army. On September 15 McClellan attacked Lee, but Jacksons troops were there to reinforce Lee. McClellan ordered small, separated attacks, but the Confederate were there to meet the attacks. At 6 A.M Union General Joseph Hooker attacked the Confederate and he pushed them toward Dunker Church the northern end ... ...

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... of Infantry after. He was promoted after the Battle of Murfreesboro, for his excellency in the field. After his time spent in the Carolinas, Henry and his new company were ordered to report to Fort Caspar (Dakota Territory) by General Grant. Henry Blanchard Freeman and his regiment then participated in the Sioux War. In the collection provided to me by the ... ...

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... the injustices of southern segregation, but an incident on a troop ship carrying him to Germany at the very conclusion of the war made an even more forceful and lasting impression. Ordered to descend into the hold and enforce the prohibition against gambling among those quartered below deck, Davis discovered with disappointment hundreds of black soldiers whom he had not even known ... ...

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... of Lee, Phil Sheridan's Union Calvary wreaked havoc with the retreat, while the pursuit by the Union Army of the Potomac was constantly attacking his rear guard. Sheridan had already ordered General George Armstrong Custer to secure the Appomattox depot and the rail cars advancing to the station with the Rebel supplies. Custer was successful and captured 25 pieces of artillery ... ...

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