... J.E.B. because his full name was James Ewell Brown Stuart, even though it is not mentioned a lot. He was born on February 6, 1833 at Patrick County, Virginia and died on May 12, 1864 at Yellow Tavern, Virginia. He was originally educated at home, then he attended Emory College and Henry College from 1848 to 1850. In 1851 he entered West Point, and ended ... sell his invention to the army. Then Robert E. Lee called for him. Lee was Stuart's superintendent. Later, he went back to Kansas. But in April of 1861 his home state, Virginia seceded from the Union. He decided he wanted to resign f...

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... 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 ... When they reached New Orleans on the 25th, the city surrendered. 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...

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... assignment was to assist in the design and construction of a U.S. army fort in Georgia. After his mission in Georgia, he went back to his home state, Virginia. There he met a woman by the name of Mary Anne Custis. Eventually, after courting, they fell in love and got married. With training at West Point ... Robert saw that the issue of slavery was tearing the nation apart and he was scared. He didn't know what he would do if Virginia seceded from the nation. Would he stay loyal to the union or fight for the state he grew up in? The time came for him to ... late. Lee made his decision....

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... January, within days of each other, Mississippi seceded from the Union, with Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas following. What is my own native Virginia about? Why had she acted so tardily and shown such a lack of independence? As you know, several months ago, we started a new government since ... been opposed to imposition and insult. Both of these we have been receiving from the Yankees for the last 35 years. I am surprised that Virginia was so slow to act when she has been most injured and insulted. However, it is with pride that I can tell you that Richmond is ... mili...

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... a superintendent of West Point military academy. After that he joined the Army of the Confederacy of the southern states. In 1862 he received the command of the army of Northern Virginia, and won a seven day battle defending Richmond, Virginia, the confederate capital, against General McClellan's Union Forces. In 1863 Lee won victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, both in ... Virginia, and in 1864 at Cold Harbor, Virginia, but was besieged in Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865. He surrendered to General Grant on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Courthouse. Following the w...

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George Edward Pickett was born in Richmond, Virginia on January 28, 1825. He came from an old Virginia family that had arrived in the colony in 1635. Pickett attended the United States military academy at West Point where he graduated last ... McClellan and Thomas J. Jackson. After West Point; General Pickett served with honor in the Mexican War from 1846 to 1847. He served in Texas; Virginia; and Washington Territory until June 25, 1861, where he resigned his commission to enter the Confederate Army. This happened only two months before after his home state ... of Virginia seceded from the ...

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... section of the country. Another major factor that Lee had to sit and think about before he made his decision was his loyalty to Virginia. Does he stay loyal to Virginia and fight for the Confederacy? Or does he take up his stance as a Union-supporter and stay with the Union? These are ... just two of the possible hundreds of questions that Lee might have wrestled with. " the traditional rationale of Lee's ultimate decision is based on his Virginia loyalty- (Nolan 31). "At about the time this letter (to his son Curtis) was written, Lee had a conversation in San Antonio with Charles Anders...

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... : December 13, 1862 One of the early important battles of the American Civil War, in which the Confederate troops defeated the Union troops. It was fought in and near Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13-15, 1862. The contending forces were the Union Army of the Potomac with 122,000 troops and 312 guns, under Ambrose Everett Burnside, and the Confederate Army of ... 78,500 men and 270 guns, under Robert E. Lee. After the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, Lee withdrew from Maryland to Virginia, and the federal government decided that a counteroffensive was strategically in order. Bur...

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... War was in fact a civil war for multiple reasons. To begin with, the eleven states that declared themselves a new nation claimed to have seceded. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee all stated that they were no longer part of the Union, and proclaimed themselves to be the Confederate States of America. However, secession is illegal ... respectively, or to the people." However, the Constitution did in fact state that secession was illegal, as clearly written in Article 1 Section 10. Other may also argue that West Vir...

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... may shed light on the mind-set of Southerner's respect for their past. According to Dew, "the past is far from dead in the Southern reaches of the United States (7). "Virginia's Richmond City Council voted in favor of a mural of Robert E. Lee displayed in the Canal Walk along the James River. In 1998 ... , Virginia's governor proclaimed April as "Confederate History Month, as well as the Confederate battle flag floating over the South Carolina state capital. In Maryland, vanity license plates bearing small Confederate flags ... 's election was the final blow and a call for war. Successi...

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... took place on July 21, 1961, and was to be the day "bearing the fate of the newborn confederacy." (Beauregard). The battle of Bull Run was fought in Virginia, near the Manassas, Virginia railway junction, after which the battle is called (or First Bull Run, named after the flowing stream on the battlefield). According to Michael Golay, author of To Gettsburg and ... Union was quite primed for the next battle, the Confederate army had very good leadership behind it. The Confederate leader was General Robert E. Lee who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee thought he had everything...

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... new wife got malaria and she died only three months later. After the grieving loss, Davis went back to his plantation and lived there for ten years, until he married Virginia Howell, a 19 year old, 18 years less than he. He got elected as a senator from Mississippi but resigned to fight in the Mexican war. He resumed his position in 1847 ... for states rights. When the confederacy broke free from the Union, Davis wanted to take control of the confederate army, but was elected president instead. Davis was inaugurated in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, on February 22, ...

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... River by cutting off the South from the west, complicating the communication between the two. The last role was to capture the capital of the Confederate States of America, Richmond, Virginia. Politically, the plan was appealing; it permitted time for disposition to cool and encouraged the possibility of a peaceful return of the Union. Militarily, the Plan's goal was to engage in ... the North's overpowering advantages in population and industrial potency and accepted the imperative value of control over the Mississippi River Valley. The most important coastal section was Hampton Roads ...

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... . I have chosen four women, two from the North and two from the South; each with their unique and courageous story. Elizabeth Van Lew, was from the high society of Richmond Virginia. Yet Miss. Van Lew was a spy for the Union. She even had the opportunity to gain access into the Southern White House, and gather important information. Harriet Tubman, a runaway slave ... . I have chosen four women, two from the North and two from the South; each with their unique and courageous story. Elizabeth Van Lew, was from the high society of Richmond Virginia. Yet Miss. Van Lew was a spy for the Union...

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... . 5. Define the term Civil War? Civil War- a war between two different groups of the same country 6. How was the state of West Virginia created? On April 17, 1861 the Va. Secession Convention passed an ordinance of secession thus creating West Virginia. 7. Justify how many people Tennessee lost in the war? Civilwar.net states that Tennessee lost 6,777 people in the war. 8. Contrast ... ...

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... was the Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as The Second Battle of Manassas. The Second Battle of Bull Run took place between August28 and August 30, 1862 in Virginia. Stonewall Jackson led 25,000 men on a fifty-six mile march around John Pope's right flank. Jackson wanted to get Pope's rail line to Washington and loot his supply depot ... five times the number that horrified the Country the first time the North and South fought there. The Second Bull Run Battle was the most decisive battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign. Only an effective Union rearguard action prevented a replay...

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... when he was very young, life was very rough for him. He was raised by his uncle, Cummins Jackson, a miller who lived near what is now known as Weston, West Virginia. Later on, he was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy. He had to work several times harder than the other cadets to learn the lessons in school because of poor education ... within a year. In 1850, after the Mexican war was over he went to Florida to fight the Seminole Indians. Jackson left the army in 1850 and became a math professor at Virginia Military Institute where he taught for ten years. He was not a very good tea...

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... 160,000 Americans. Before the Battle, major cities in the North as Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington were under Threat of the attack from General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, that had crossed the Potomac River and marched to Pennsylvania. The Union Army of the Potomac, under its new commander, General George G. Made, marched to intercept General Lee. On Wednesday ... into the next day July 4, Confederates" wounded men were loaded on wagons that began to head back South. General Lee was forced to take his army and retreat back to Virginia. Union Commander ...

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... of Gettysburg was called "Pickets Charge". It was the battle that ended the battle of Gettysburg. The thing that started this battle was General Lee invaded Northern Virginia, Pennsylvania area to help prevent fighting in Virginia and bring the Union army out of its protection and defenses. Another time during this whole battle, a colonel named Joshua A. Chamberlain ran out of ammunition and ... ...

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... in some 28,000 casualties and the North had 23,000. Lee had lost more than a third of his army and on July 4, 1863, the confederacy began its retreat to Virginia. The war was to go on for two more horrifying and sad years but the Confederacy never recovered from the losses of Gettysburg. And though the deep wounded of Confederate ... then made its way to join Grant at Richmond. The blockade they had created forced the Confederacy to surrender. On April 3, 1865 Lee surrendered at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. ...

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... untimely death. Yet, if he were to have survived, and live to see the end of the war, the outcome may have been very different. Jackson was born in Clarksburg Virginia in 1827. After age 2 was an orphan moving all over, being passed on from family member to family member. although young Stonewall Jackson lived with family, "...they did not provide ... his graduation from West Point, he served in the Mexican War, carrying two brevets and rank of major. After his time in the Mexican war, Jackson accepted a professorship at the Virginia Military Institute. At the institute he taught cadets...

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... that a good strategy will accomplish anything. In the book The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, strategy is shown as the most important element of this battle. The Army of Northern Virginia, under General Robert E. Lee, lost the Battle of Gettysburg for several reasons. The most important was General Lee's refusal to fight a defensive battle and position the Confederate forces between Washington ... charge. Although General Longstreet tells General Lee that he will fail, General Lee refuses to listen and goes ahead anyways. This was the final mistake and the Army of Northern Virginia ha...

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... states and the southern states. Many causes provoked the war, which would affect the nation for decades to come. Slavery, the Missouri Compromise, and John Brown's attack on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, were some of the many causes. In turn hundreds of thousands of soldiers died. The South's economy was devastated, and the northern ideals flourished. In the later 1700's to 1863 ... able to solve the problem of slavery. In October 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a violent attack. He and his band of 21 men attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. They hoped to spark a slave ...

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... it meant war. He eventually raised an army and navy of nearly 3 million northern men to face a southern army of over 2 million soldiers. In battles fought from Virginia to California (but mainly in Virginia, in the Mississippi River Valley, and along the border states) a great civil war tore the United States apart. In pursuing victory, Lincoln assumed extra-legal powers over the ... ...

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The Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17, 1862. The United States Army of the Potomac led by General George B. McClellan fought against the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia led by General Robert E. Lee. The battle was fought along the Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Both of the armies were densely concentrated in the Sharpsburg area, and it was a ... Confederate Army lost around ten thousand men. General Robert E. Lee narrowly escaped defeat this battle and the lack of men cause him and his army to retreat back in to Virginia. Lee had good reason for wanting to bring ...

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