... war was a woman only known as Emily. At the age of 19 she ran away from home and joined the drum corps of a Michigan regiment. The regiment was sent to Tennessee and during the struggle for Chattanooga a mine ball pierced her side. Her wound was fatal and her sex was disclosed but she refused to reveal her real name but as ... . Susie also learned to clean, load, and fire a musket. Susie nursed wounded soldiers for four years until she and she husband where murdered out of the regiment in 1865. Cathay Williams Cathay Williams was born into slavery near Independence, Missouri in 1842. She...

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... Forts Henry and Donelson. After these losses, General Joseph Johnston was placed in charge of the remaining forces. General Johnston set his headquarters in Jackson, Tennessee, and started forming the Army of Mississippi. When General Grant started landing at Shiloh, General Albert Johnston left Nashville to take command of the newly ... ,000 men. The Union, who had come off some major victories, was not aware of the Army of Mississippi. General Grant was moving into Tennessee with 45,000 men and was going to get 25,000 more from General Buell who was coming from Columbia. They were dela...

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... 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 February 6th. 10 days ... Grant. With these two forts and the Confederates surrendering Nashville to the North on February 25th, the Union took control of Kentucky and much of Tennessee. By the spring 1862, the Union forces took control of the Tennessee and Cumberland River...

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... start of the Civil War. 2. Describe one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War? One of the bloodiest battles that took place in the war also took place in Tennessee. 3. Discuss why slaves were an important issue in 1861? Slaves were an important issue because the South used slaves to do work in the field for the cotton production to ... 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 ...

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After an earlier defeat at Chickamauga in Georgia, the Union forces, under Grant's defeat, withdrew across the state boundary to Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1863. The Confederates, under Braxton Braggs, set down a blockade and cut off all Union supply goods and communications. On Lookout Mountain, three miles southwest of Chattanooga and on parts ... of Missionary Ridge, Bragg's army was there and ready to go! The Union army took over Brown's Ferry on the Tennessee River, west of Chattanooga, by trying to get back the supply line on October 27 and 28. The army of X1 and X11 Corps under General ...

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... start of the Civil War. 2. Describe one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War? One of the bloodiest battles that took place in the war also took place in Tennessee. 3. Discuss why slaves were an important issue in 1861? Slaves were an important issue because the South used slaves to do work in the field for the cotton production to ... 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 ...

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... ended the differences between ex-confederates and Republicans were at an unstable high. While President Lincoln was in office during the war, he appointed Andrew Johnson to military governor of Tennessee because he was the only senator from a Confederate state who remained loyal to the Union throughout. Johnson was the first to initiate a reconstruction policy in May of 1865. This policy ... slavery or to secede from the Union. Republicans feared the old southern ruling class would regain regional power and national influence by devising new ways to subjugate blacks (AP&P 460). Tennesse...

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... 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 according to the Constitution. In ... ...

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... granted to the freed African Americans, like the fourteenth amendment. This probably had something to do with the fact that Andrew Johnson was originally Governor of the southern state of Tennessee, even though that state seceded from the confederacy. He still had some of the southern views of African Americans. President Abraham Lincoln's plan for reconstruction started with his Proclamation of ... ...

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... . The KKK or otherwise known as the Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist social terrorist group that targeted political leaders and blacks who denied white authority. It was founded in Tennessee in 1866. After being created, it quickly spread to every southern state. It was lead by merchants, politicians, and white men who saw themselves as "respectable citizens"." Blacks were murdered ... ...

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... plan of action was established by the President of that time, Mr. Abraham Lincoln. He had many thoughts and ideas to make the country better. Even though he was from Tennessee he was against slavery and looked forward to see it be abolished. Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction of the country was to ultimately restore the Union. His first action was to ... ...

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... many factors that lead to the north's victory.I will begin by mentioning the compromise of 1850.After Lincoln won the election, himself and Black Republican Allies pressured the states of Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and Delaware to remain in the union.Crittenden's compromise restored the Missouri compromise line of 36/30 to California and guaranteed the national gov. would not ... ...

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... . After everyone had a conversation with each other, Powers said, "But you know, those guys were okay, and I found myself thinking, if they were up in Minnesota or I was down in Tennessee, maybe we"d be friends. Then I started thinking; maybe it was the same for my great-great-grandfather. That reb who shot him in the leg was probably a farmer like him ... ...

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... high ranked officials and those accused of crimes against prisoners of war who would swear allegiance to the Union and promise to obey its laws. Under those terms, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia moved toward readmission to the Union. Lincoln's leniency angered the Radical Republicans. The radicals, led by Senator Charles Sumner of MA and Representative Thaddeus Stevens of PA, proposed ... ...

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... was the confederates or the southern states. They seceded from the union and tried to form their own country. The states were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Texas. Those 11 states wanted to keep slavery. The other army was the union or the northern states. These states wanted to abolish slavery. The President ... ...

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... life. It took the other group of states until even after the first shots of the Civil War were fired to secede from the Union. These states: North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas seceded only after Lincoln's call for troops forced them to choose between secession and fighting against their sister states of the Lower South. These states did not feel ... ...

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... elected president in 1860, eleven states left the Union and proclaimed themselves an independent nation, the Confederate States of America: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The American Civil War had begun. Four years later, the Confederates surrendered. The Civil War put an end to slavery; it also made clear that the country ... ...

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... . President Davis put General John Bell Hood in the place of General Johnston. General Hood was one of the coldest hearted Confederate fighters. General Hood led the Confederate army to Tennessee were his army fought till there were no more Confederates soldiers left. General Hood wasn't successful in Atlanta; Atlanta was captured and burned by the Union. What and why: It ... ...

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... two basic forms. First, a vocal group of states" rights activists. Second, loyalty to the Union flourished among a segment of the Confederacy's common people, mostly in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. To solve this problem in 1861 President Jefferson Davis was given power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus; Davis used this sparingly, by occasionally putting areas under martial law ... ...

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... , Missouri. In February of 1862, Sherman relieved U.S. Grant at Paducah Kentucky. In March, General Halleck was assigned to command the Department of Mississippi. The army was named Army of the Tennessee. 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 ... ...

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... elected president in 1860, eleven states left the Union and proclaimed themselves an independent nation, the Confederate States of America: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The American Civil War had begun. Four years later, the Confederates surrendered. The Civil War put an end to slavery; it also made clear that the country ... ...

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... and personally drilled them ensuring every soldier knew how to use this new rifle. In September of 1846 they took part in a charge at Monterey and with the aid of a Tennessee regiment, defeated the Mexicans. Later at Buena Vista the regiment would participate in another charge that would leave Davis severely wounded. In 1847 Davis was appointed to the U.S. Senate and ... ...

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... in the first of a few battles in Chattanooga, where he would display his superior strategic abilities. This victory late in the summer of 1862 would result in the liberation of Tennessee and the near liberation of Kentucky. This battle is considered by many to be the high-water mark of the Confederacy. The British were even on the verge of granting ... ...

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... , the South was allowed to strengthen its position undisturbed. Following Lincoln's inauguration, the second wave of secession began on April 17 with Virginia. The wave of secession continued with Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina. The only slave states that did not leave the Union were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. These were known as Border States that remained loyal to the ... ...

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