US Civil War

Basically, it was a battle between an industrial power and an agrarian power, fought almost exclusively on Southern soil. The...

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The South seceded for one reason and one reason only--to perpetuate the institution of slavery. Read all their declarations of...

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The major effect of the Great Depression and the New Deal on America was expanded government intervention into new areas of...

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Some Novels Based on this Premise If The South Had Won The Civil War, by MacKinlay Kantor Dixie Victorious: An Alternate...

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Robert E. Lee had the authority to surrender all Confederate forces to the Union at Appomattox Court House, bein

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The US Civil War began on 12 April 1861 at 4:30 am when confederate forces in Charleston, south Carolina, fired on Union forces...

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to improve sanitary conditions for soldiers. They set up hospitals trains and ships to move wounded soldiers from the battlefield

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Lincoln felt that if he didn't fight the confederate states that the very soul of the country would be gone. He was fighting to...

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The chief obstacle was how to cross the river unobserved by the commander of the Vicksburg garrison, General John C. Pemberton....

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The Union - very much so.Pennsylvania had a strong free-soil tradition, and its border with slave-owning Maryland was the...

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The emancipation proclamation did not free all slaves. It only freed those in the states that left the union. It could not free...

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South Carolina The only state that declared their secession in 1860 was South Carolina on 20 December 1860. Six other states...

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Tennessee was Confederate state. However the people of the state were divided and many joined the Union army. Its capital,...

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Nothing much in the Eastern theatre - both armies had taken a terrible battering. Attention was focused on the Tennessee/Georgia...

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Because the new state of California extended so far either side of the Missouri line that it could not fit the terms of the...

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So angry and humiliated that some of them started-up the Ku Klux Klan.

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Seeing that the rich Georgia farmland had enjoyed a good harvest, Sherman decided that he could forget his vulnerable supply-line...

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The economy of the south depended on cotton, which was the largest export of the United States. Tobacco was the #2 crop in most...

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Several areas. All along the southern seacoast the US Navy tried, throughout the war, to enforce a blockade, to prevent supplies...

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they don't

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North and South disagreed sharply about whether there should be any new slave-states.Every time a new state entered the Union as...

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Industrialization in the South.

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The Union army under US Grant was meant to take care of Robert E.Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. It eventually succeeded -...

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The well-meant attempt to put the slavery question to a local vote in each new state.When they tried it in Kansas, the voters...

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In many cases, there was a laundress for every 17-20 men, 4 per company. The laundress was in the army and paid by the guys....

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the 14th and 15th amendments the freedmen's bureauthe restoration of the union

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400 to 600 yards, comparable to single-shot infantry rifles of the time.

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It meant they would not have to face the British and French armies on the side of the Confederates.Whether they also felt a new...

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Raised the temperature of the slavery debate, when the Supreme Court declared that the Constitution protected property, and...

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Yes, a very urgent one. Lee's stunning series of wins in Summer '62 had brought the British close to granting recognition to the...

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So many delays that some of the cabinet thought it looked suspicious, hinting that McClellan might possibly be a Confederate...

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Slavery was the underlying basis for the civil war because the problem of states rights verses nations rights came to a head....

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Its beautiful I should know,I live there on weekends yeah ive lived in Gettysburg most my life. it is pretty More importantly,...

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He had several accomplices: David Herald, Lewis Payne (AKA: Lewis Powell), George Atzerodt, and perhaps Mary Surratt, who's trial...

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Popular Sovereignty

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The South had only to avoid losing the war. The North had to conquer as much of the South as was necessary to put down the...

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Amazingly the first person to ride, break, and train Traveller was not a man, but Dorothy Ross. The teenage daughter of...

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Yes. Most Civil War soldiers were burried in mass graves. These mass graves were simply hastily dug trenches, maybe 4-5 feet deep...

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Nothing like as effective as the Missouri Compromise, which had kept the peace for thirty years, but whose terms could not...

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All the women had to do all the cooking, cleaning, planting and every other job she did before and the ones the men did. Women...

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That most sharecroppers and farmers where hurt because of the unionblocking of there trade by land and sea.

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Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia

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This was only allowed to happen right at the end, too late to make any impact.The Confederate mindset had been strongly against...

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they thought that it was heaven

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Abolitionism was a movement to do away with slavery, notably in the US from 1800 to 1863. Actual slavery in the US was outlawed...

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In the South, the effect of the cotton-gin on the production of short-staple cotton, so profitable that Southerners felt they...

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A great many Americans still debate the origins of the Civil War in the same terms as a century or more ago. People say the war...

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My understanding is, not much. Although many photographs were taken of all aspects of the war the technology for publishing them...

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Lee Grant surrendered at the appomattoc courthouse

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Virginia has 156 wineries.

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During the Civil War, Union soldiers wore blue uniforms and were thus Blue Bellies by the Confederate soldiers.

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The union, which is the north. the south were gray.

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By turning down a senior position in the Union army, of which he would probably have become General-in-Chief in a few months.Even...

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Morally, slavery was wrong. Economically speaking, there was a bit of an incentive for Northerners who had to pay employees to...

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No.They would have helped the Confederates, if the British were to do the same. (It was "We will, if you will")The French wanted...

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Water and railroads

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Just a stylistic.The Confederates would name a battle after the nearest town.The Union would name it after a geographical feature...

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Because Lincoln felt that McClellan lacked the aggressiveness required to successfully defeat the Confederate army. McClellan was...

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This is an important issue! Since most of them were from the North, they generally didn't care for it. Before Madison went...

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That most noble of all steeds was named Traveller. There is a very fun book by that title. It puports to be a first person...

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The women were more likely to be employed as house-slaves than the men, who were kept out in the fields.So the men watched their...

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It's most likely because very few people have ever even been curious about it. The Civil War fascinates me, but to be honest,...

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...was moderate on the slavery issue, and had not yet started to worry about Britain planning to send aid to the Confederates....

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The cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney helped lead to the civil war in the sense that it brought upon more salvery and slavery...

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I should think so Southern women pretty much ran the plantations anyway. The men just got the credit for it. The women...

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No. They must follow orders under any conditions.

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that's like asking what a Toyota is worth. you need specifics

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Both Britain and France were already indirectly supporting the Confederate cause by freely supplying arms, materials and even...

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Probably hard and difficult. Housing were at camps that were packed with tents housing 5 or 6 men. Log cabins were used in winter...

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He led the Army of Tennessee to disaster.The Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, fired Joe Johnston and replaced him with...

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White, if you use conventional "racial" terms. Brown was of English and Dutch descent and his family claimed descent from Peter...

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A reluctance by Grant to put on any more big attacks, and to settle for a siege, however long it lasted. (And it lasted nine...

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They didn't. The French supported the Confederates (until the Emancipation Proclamation made it ethically impossible for free...

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Since the Confederates withdrew, it was counted as a Northern win. But nothing was gained by it.

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1854 was the Bleeding Kansas time, when the hopeful attempt at a local voting solution (by the optimist Stephen Douglas) showed...

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since the confederate had just formed in the begining of the civil war it did not have time to create a judiciary. A...

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Slave apologist would have us believe that Africans fought on both sides in some large numbers. The actual truth is 180,000...

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The rich men had the greatest stake in the outcome of the war, they stood to lose everything they had if slavery were ended. A...

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Kentucky. Missouri. Maryland. Delaware. There was also DC, where slave-trading had been abolished, but slavery still contnued...

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There was a Camp Mason in Oklahoma and, another in Portland Maine.

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General Ulysses S. Grant (union) -also became a US President General Robert E. Lee (rebel) General Stonewall Jackson...

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AnswerRalph, do you have any other info at all?I've done some digging and run a few searches and can find nothing at all on...

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1. capture the Mississippi river. 2.Blockade the southern ports. 3. Capture Richmond Virginia.  Answer This was known as...

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When Grant became general in chief in 1864 there were 1,000,000 men in the Union Armies. I believe that over the course of the...

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Nebraska

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Yes. He had 6 children so there would have to be decents.

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Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas....

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Yes. There were some exceptions in cases in which the drummer was not formally enlisted (and was more of a regimental mascot)...

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The firing on the Union garrison on the island of Fort Sumter by Confederate artillery in Charleston, South Carolina.April 12th...

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A Union gunner accidentally killed when a powder-barrel blew up during the farewell salute at Fort Sumter.

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Fort Sumter was the site of the first battle of the Civil War. The 1st Bull Run was in fact the first battle of the Civil...

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The South could have won the civil war in many ways and at various points, even late into the war. There were several major...

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Lincoln's election in 1860 ended the two party system that had prevailed for decades. There were four major candidates for...

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The Emancipation Proclamation - a strange document which sounded like a Human Rights appeal, but was actually an urgent tactical...

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No. It was the Northern aboltionists who did.The South reacted with horror. It confirmed their worst fears about the prospect of...

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The original five full Generals were:Samuel Cooper - an elderly unknown, promoted on grounds of seniority, and not involved in...

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Chencellorsville

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There was a secret way to get to the north and there were several different paths to go on. Most of the beginning slaves would be...

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4 years 1861-1865

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Booth did not want the slave states to be forced to give up their slaves and he did not want black people to be allowed to vote....

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