... advantage gained on either side. A miscommunication during one of these encounters caused the fatal shot at General McPherson. By late afternoon Hood believed his army's flank to be secure and ordered an all-out offensive assault. The Yankee troops repelled the attack through skillful artillery fire inflicting massive Confederate casualties and forcing a retreat into the city's defensives. Union soldiers entrenched around ... over the next month. On August 25th Sherman sent six of his seven infantry corps to destroy the Rebel's main supply line at Macon and Western Railroad near Jonesbo...

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... publications that the timeline is congruent when Harpers Ferry would be controlled by the Confederates. Mosby goes on to illustrate at Harpers Ferry, on April 27, 1861 Stonewall Jackson was ordered to the command of the troops there as it was, "a place of great strategic value for the Confederates. It was a salient position: it's possession by the Confederates was a menace ... that name. After Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, in command of the troops around Winchester, ordered Mosby to s...

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... , the United States only had control of two forts in the South, Fort Pickens in Pensacola, Florida and Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, ordered General Beauregard to attack the Fort. Beauregard sent someone to ask the Fort to surrender, but that failed. The next day, the first shots of the American Civil War were ... fired at Fort Sumter. Lincoln responded quickly to this attack and prepared the North for war. He recruited seventy-five thousand troops to fight the rebellion and ordered the United States Navy to seal off southern po...

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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 He was almost immediately ordered to Manassas, Virginia to command at the First Bull Run, though he was superseded at the last moment by J.E. Johnston ("Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard: 1818-1893-).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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... 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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... , 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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... for all United States naval and land forces to begin a general advance by February 22. March comes along and McClellan is ordered to become the commander of the Army of Potomac instead of the commander of the Union. He is ordered to attack Richmond that marks the beginning of the Peninsular Campaign. The naval war begins with the sinking of two wooden ... ...

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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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... aimlessly around the Virginia countryside, as permission allowing safe access to the battlefield was repeatedly denied by Confederate authorities. Fearful that the ambulances, with their supplies, would be captured, King ordered the carriages to return to Washington.1 Those first assigned to remove the wounded were regimental musicians or soldiers who were not good fighters. These soldiers were placed on ambulance duty ... ...

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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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... 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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... total control over their slaves(Slave Codes). Many attainment were intended to control slave populaces and acquire defiance. For instance, slaves were restricted from perusing and composing, and holders were ordered to routinely hunt slave residencies down suspicious activity.the war successfully finished bondage, before the Thirteenth Amendment (December 1865) formally banned the establishment all through the United States. Prejudice is ... ...

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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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... on the U.S.S. West Virginia, helping to move out of harm's way, including the mortally wounded captain (Memory). Miller also manned an antiaircraft machine gun, downing several Japanese planes before being ordered to abandon the sinking ship (Memory). African Americans were very capable of doing things, contrary to what some believed. They did not let their skin color stop them form advancing ... ...

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... as three hundred of its disarmed defenders, black and white. " deluded Negroes would run up to our men," a rebel soldier recalled, "fall upon their knees scream for mercy, but were ordered to their feet and shot down" (Ward 335). Though the casualties were many the bravery of the black men who died in this bloodbath was apparent. This tragedy gave many ... ...

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... flank the Union army and take the hill. The attempted flank and siege of the Little Round Top began as was thought by General Warren of the Union forces. He ordered the 20th Maine, 44th New York, and 16th Michigan, to the hill and to keep the hill at all costs. The 20th Maine was assigned to take out the left ... ...

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... a stay of execution, which was subsequently refused. In response to threats from abolitionists that an attempt would be made to rescue Brown and his surviving followers, the governor of Virginia ordered troops to Charlestown to watch over the prisoners until their executions. On the day of the executions, guns were fired and bells tolled in many places in the North, and ... ...

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... a stay of execution, which was subsequently refused. In response to threats from abolitionists that an attempt would be made to rescue Brown and his surviving followers, the governor of Virginia ordered troops to Charlestown to watch over the prisoners until their executions. On the day of the executions, guns were fired and bells tolled in many places in the North, and ... ...

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... machine gun on November 4, 1862. He later adapted it to use steel-jacketed cartridges. The rate of fire for the gun was 250-300 rounds per minute. General Ben Butler ordered twelve Gatling guns for the Union. Gatling, however, was a "copperhead", a Northerner who sympathized with the Confederacy. His reputation did not help sell the gun to the Union, especially since he ... ...

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... minds to get into a line of battle and stay there for that man will fight us everyday and every hour till the end of the war-(Foote, Vol.3 123). Grant ordered a sidling movement to get around Lee's army, but Lee beat them to Spotsylvania where another ferocious battle was fought. The southerners were dug in behind entrenchments and the federal assaults ... ...

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... . The Mexican War: The Mexican-American War broke out in 1845. Lee was then sent in to supervise road construction by General Winfield Scott, overall U.S. Army commander. Also Lee was ordered to map out the terrain ahead, dividing the line of advance for U.S. troops and in one case leading troops into battle. He led battles at Cerro Gordo, Churubusco, and Chapultepec ... ...

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... . Lee's only chance would be to move his troops out of Richmond and down a southwestern path toward a meeting with fellow General Johnston's (Johnston had been dispatched to Virginia after being ordered not to resist the advance of Sherman's Army) forces. Lee chose a small town to the west named Amelia Court House as a meeting point. His escape was narrow; they (the soldiers ... ...

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... . Lee's only chance would be to move his troops out of Richmond and down a southwestern path toward a meeting with fellow General Johnston's (Johnston had been dispatched to Virginia after being ordered not to resist the advance of Sherman's Army) forces. Lee chose a small town to the west named Amelia Court House as a meeting point. His escape was narrow; they (the soldiers ... ...

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... diligently for the election of Republicans but were seldom seen at the customhouse itself.In 1877 Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes, who had pledged civil service reform during his election campaign, ordered an investigation of the customhouse by an independent commission. Arthur and two aides were asked to resign "... for having regarded their offices as of subordinate importance to their partisan work ... ...

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