US Civil War
This category is for questions and answers about the American Civil War. This was an internal conflict involving the state rights, and divided the United States in a bloody struggle. It was fought after the secession of eleven southern states, and lasted from 1861 to 1865.
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TRAVELLER'S GRAVE "Traveller" was Lee's renowned horse, purchased by Lee in 1862 and became his faithful companion throughout...
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Reconstruction. It refers to the period in American history that directly followed the civil war MLM
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Well, if you were in the border states, the two armies kept trampling across your crops. And no matter where you were, there was...
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Industrialization had nothing to do with the Civil War. It was fought over slavery. The Southern states were beginning to secede...
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It didn't. The Confederacy was the government formed by those states attempting to leave the Union. The two were at war. Michael...
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I assume you mean why they wanted to separate from the North? in any case, after the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska...
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Much bigger population from which to recruit armies.
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you spelt war wrong dope. and by the way they did nothing.
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Glass, chemically treated (wet-plate negative) and then exposed to light was used.
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Because they wanted to expand slavery and the plantations making them bigger, creating possiblity of more money and more dlminant...
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Over the years the exact wording has changed. President Lincoln stated that the North was fighting to preserve the Union. In...
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The 'compromise' lasted until the start of the Civil War. The Civil War, in essence, relates to a failure to compromise.
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Amendments to the Constitution Slavery would be prohibited in all territory of the United States "now held, or hereafter...
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Try going to gunboards.com or surplusrifle.com. Both have forums where you can post pictures of your firearms and ask for help...
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This site has some good info: http://americancivilwar.com/cwstats.html
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At the time of the Civil War, the world was beginning to get smaller as the information age really began when on May 24, 1844,...
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It stands for Confederate States Ship. The Federal navy used USS for United States Ship. Other countries have similar terms...
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An "Adjutant" was responsible for the administrative details of the regiments, battalions, etc.......the bookkeeper.
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Abraham Lincoln. not just him, because he got help. harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas, and just the regular slave. The regular...
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He was the leader of the Confederate troops during that war.
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'Anaconda' was the name by which the press ridiculed the original war-plan put forward by the distinguished but elderly...
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popular sovereignty
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Abraham Lincoln - the Father of the Republican Party - was its first ever President. The Republican Party or GOP (Grand Ole...
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Probably not, the Regional rift had grown too deep.
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Well for one obama would not be president Answer Well, it is hard to say what a map would look like today if the south had won...
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Its been some time since I learned about the civil war, but from what I can remember the South's main weakness was that they had...
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John Brown , the famous abolitionist, raided Harpers Ferry because he wanted to start a war about slavery he hated it. And...
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Fort Sumter, where the US Civil War "began" (April 12, 1861) is located in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.
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The Dred Scott decision effectively ended the Missouri Compromise, hardening the political rivalry between North and South and...
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yes, because they owned them and they can do whatever they want to to them.
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The results of battle of Buxar were as follows- 1.Robert Clive, the British commander in the battle, was appointed as the...
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The English Civil War was a war of power between the up and coming merchant classes (Parliamentarians) that had developed through...
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Fredrick Douglass
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The popular General Rosecrans ("Old Rosy") of the Union army. Although the Confederates evacuated the battlefield, they had not...
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They were called 'Scalawags'.
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AnswerBattle strategy had not kept pace with development of weaponry. It seemed to be "line up and give them a big target" at...
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Yes, if you want a good read, Harry Turtledove's books deal with the scenario of the south winning the war. His alternate...
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Maryland was important because it allowed the Union to have access to D.C. The state of Kentucky was also important because of...
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they felt that it was a major violation of there rights, and and intrusion on here way of life. therefore they needed to fight,to...
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Richard Adams, Traveller, 1988, Knopf, ISBN 0440204933. A first-person narrative, in dialect, by Traveller. His equine memoirs...
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John Brown
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98 miles
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your an idiot everyone knows how it was created it was created by an idiot putting petrol in his grandmas pants
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Sheer attrition.Grant knew that Lee could not replace his losses, and simply battered away at the Confederate lines till they...
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The Confederate Army was able to withdraw after Gettysburg. The Rebels remained on the field the day after the battle, July 4,...
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I'm not exactly sure that it was even an overnight bestseller, but the reason that it was so popular is that it exposed the true...
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Lincoln's election as President in November 1860. They knew that he would never allow the creation of any new slave-states.
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according to my calculations........the obstacles and objectives Frederick Douglas had to overcome were slavery and the fact that...
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In the South and North,prior to and during the Civil War, an owner's reason for naming a horse "Jeff Davis" was done primarily as...
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Jefferson Davis was the president and along with that he had his cabinet and his political party backing him. The confederate...
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It was the Union and the Confederate. It was fought in April of 1862. Days: 6th and 7th. At Hardin Couny Tennessee. (:
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The Missouri Compromise was an agreement between the North and the South and passed by Congress in 1820 that allowed Missouri to...
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They moved due to the gold rush
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Since both armies needed people, young boys were drafted,(forced to join) the army, most of which were put to work as drummer...
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A Confederate victory would have meant an independent Southern American nation, continuing to hold slaves.It is doubtful if...
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Grant was the general in command of all union (i.e. Yankee) forces at the end of the Civil War.
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He re-joined the Army as soon as the war started, and ended the war as General-in-Chief of the Union armies. So he served...
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The cotton industry depended totally on slave-labour, and as cotton became more and more profitable, Southern leaders fought hard...
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To save the Union - and by implication, the huge cotton revenues, which amounted to half the exports of the pre-war Unired...
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This is very possible. I've seen some where the respondant wrote directly under what the soldier wrote. The neat part was that if...
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Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808 - December 6, 1889) was the only president of the Confederate States of America. He was appointed...
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Missouri Kentucky Maryland Delaware All of them were "slave states" that stayed in the Union for one reason or another.
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The Confederate States of America
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the name Shiloh means a "place of peace"
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At the Battle of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee won the first two battles and was feeling pretty invincible. He felt like he could do...
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It was his only hope, to avoid having to surrender.It was a desperate gamble that he might be able to escape into North Carolina...
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AnswerHe probably should have made this move, it would have helped to slow down southern movement and supplies. I think the main...
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The main reason for the Civil War was the right of secesion. The north began to put tighter and tighter restraints upon slavery...
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Servicemen took baths when the opportunity arose. You have to remember that there were a little over sixteen million of them in...
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Drew a line in the sand - everywhere North of that parallel (Missouri's Southern border) to be free soil.It kept the peace for...
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timber,tobacco and cotton
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Because both sides were competing for the new territories that would be admitted to the USA.The South was the smaller half, and...
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He didn't want to - because he didn't want Virginia to secede.But when they did, he went with his state.
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Egypt fell to the Macedonians.
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Because they regarded the Union as sacred - also they didn't want to lose the cotton revenues.
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Carpetbaggers
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There has been a lot of debate about this subject. During the beginning of the conflict, Lincoln was still trying to find anyway...
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It was not impacted by the war because of distance, but it suffered from a lack of immigration and expansion because of wartime...
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To prevent the Union from controlling trade in and out of Charleston Harbor
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An enthusiastic cavalry tradition.The advantage of fighting nearly all the campaigns on home ground.
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George Armstrong Custer. Despite having no direct command experience, he became one of the youngest generals in the UnionArmy at...
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It ended with Lee's surrender at Appomottax. Dignity and compassion were the order of the day that ended America's deadliest war....
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Robert E. Lee was one of the confederate generals but first agreed to fight for the north.
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