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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To gain our independence from Great Britain.
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In response to Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteer troops after the firing on Fort Sumter - the official signal that the war...
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The Colonial South was populated by younger sons who immigrated from England who were disinherited by the ancient custom of...
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Robert Gould Shaw was born on October 10, 1837.
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A mistake was made when was he was enrolled at West Point and he was listed as Ulysses S. Grant. He did not particularly like his...
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ironclad, a steam-propelled warship of the later 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates that has the attribute...
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There was no 3rd Bull Run.Only 2.
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Lee Konitz is 83 years old (birthdate: October 13, 1927).
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John W. Dean III is 72 years old (birthdate: October 14, 1938).
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Having to recruit from a much smaller population.Success of the Union naval blockade.
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the south will rise again
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At the outbreak of war, the General-in-Chief was Wnfield Scott.He was soon replaced, effectively, by George McLellan, though not...
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It made them abandon it.Lee's army was badly damaged, and took part in no major operations till Grant was promoted...
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The South.The Confederates fired the first shots of the war at the Union garrison on its little island in Charleston harbour, and...
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Slavery died out in the North because it did not fit the factory system.Industrial bosses preferred skilled, mobile labour.
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Yes.The original one died, and Scott was left in his will to his sister and her husband.
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To prevent the South from exchanging its cotton for military material from abroad.
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Lee Loughnane is 64 years old (birthdate: October 21, 1946).
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Type your answer here... 1785
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Northern strategy during the Civil War, where the North blockaded the South and seized control of the Mississippi River. Also,...
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Ang Lee is 56 years old (birthdate: October 23, 1954).
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Because enough local slave-owners voted for it.Many others, including Robert E. Lee, were hoping it would stay in the Union.
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He came ashore at dawn on 23 April 1865.
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Lincoln's appeal for 75,000 volunteers, following the surrender of Fort Sumter.
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George McLellan
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Lee MacPhail is 93 years old (birthdate: October 25, 1917).
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Good question.One thing is certain: they did not leap into uniform in outrage at the terrible institution of slavery. (Some...
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Yes.The Union army found itself with slaves it had been told to liberate, but didn't know what to do with. At first these...
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Begin the process of secession
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Davis was born in Kentucky, but lived most of life in Mississippi which is the state he represented in Congress.
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They met in 1844 . She was the sister of one of Grant's West Point classmates and Grant was stationed in St. Louis near where she...
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Lee Greenwood is 68 years old (birthdate: October 27, 1942).
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Lee Clark is 38 years old (birthdate: October 27, 1972).
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On the Union side, it was Sherman, aided by the popular General McPherson who was killed in the battle for Atlanta.On the...
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No.By the time he'd finished with Georgia, the desperate locals were already begging him to leave them alone and put the boot...
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Good question. It's because he knew a lot about war strategy. He wasn't afraid of too many things either.
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The Army of Tennessee under the newly-promoted John Hood. That army escaped into the mountains when Sherman entered the city, and...
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Because he was extremely worried about Britain and France planning to help the Confederates.He had to turn the war into an...
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Ulysses S. Grant graduated from West Point in 1843.
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Atlanta, Georgia and Lawrence, Missouri are two very notable examples.
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To stop the British from granting recognition to the Confederates and sending aid.Once Lincoln had declared the war to be an...
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Fewer men to recruit into the armies, especially after Grant ended the system of prisoner-exchange.Fewer people to manufacture...
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Successful blockading of Southern ports by the US Navy.Banning of cross-border trading with the North.Liberation by US troops of...
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Yes, he was a Major-General of the Confederates, and the vital other half of the Lee-Jackson partnership.
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they fed them oatmeal and not good uuaaaful
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The defining line was known as the Mason-Dixon line that starts at the southeastern tip of Pennsylvania.
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It appeared to restore the balance, after the huge territory of California was admitted to the Union as free soil.But the...
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It was launched by Confederate artillery in Charleston - the first shots of the Civil War.
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Years of simmering hostility broke out into open combat in Charleston, South Carolina, when Confederate artillery fired at the...
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Slaves who had been freed by the Union armies on their Southern campaigns did not know what to do, and the armies didn't know...
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U.S. Grant masterminded the Vicksburg campaign against great diffiulties and took the surrender of the garrison by the...
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Only Lincoln - inaugurated a month before the war started, and re-inaugurated a month before it (effectively) ended.If you...
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As its name suggests, it was in 1850!This was when California was coming up for admission to the USA. It was too big to fit the...
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Immediately the Fort Sumter garrison had to be evacuated. He called for 75,000 volunteers, which prompted four more states to...
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Because they had declared South Carolina to be part of the Confederate States of America, and they were not willing to allow a...
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The principle of 'once free, always free'.Dred Scott was the slave of an army doctor who was posted to free soil, where Scott...
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Unconditional (surrender)
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It convinced the South that the Abolitionists favoured violent revolution, and they began to prepare for armed resistance.////...
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September 1862, immediately after the unexpected Northern win at the Battle of Antietam, which gave Lincoln the credibility to...
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Lincoln had to settle for a 'Proclamation', not an Amendment, because it affected people in those states over which he had no...
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Yes. Just a few weeks into it.Lincoln, of course, was assassinated five days later.
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Over in the West, Grant liberated the Mississippi by capturing the last Confederate stronghold on the river. This enabled him to...
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Because he would not allow any new slave-states.
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It was a detachment of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment.
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The Union - after Lincoln had taken the drastic step of jailing (without trial) local leaders with pro-Confederate...
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First Battle of Bull Run - 32-34,000 Second Battle of Bull Run - 50,000
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Grant City, Missouri , Grant, Michigan and Grant City , a suburb on Staten Island, are named for U. S. Grant.
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It is not known whether he was assassinated - but there are so many versions of the story that it looks as though something is...
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no. the revolutionary war took place in 1770's and the civil war took place in the 1860's.
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"Triangular Trade" brought sugar from the Caribbean to the Colonies and made into rum; profits from the sale of rum were used to...
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The characters from the Drummer boy of Shiloh is Joby the younge drummer boy and the General Sydney Johnston. Although it doesnt...
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The Union won the series of battles leading up to the town of Appomattox Courthouse. General Lee surrendered his entire Army of...
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They were both concerned with the acquisition by America of vast new territories, and the debate over which of the forthcoming...
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Fire places and stoves.
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Grant was General-in-Chief of the Union armies, and Lee was General-in-Chief of the Confederate armies.Lee surrendered the Army...
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No. The 1864 (re-)election took place more than a year later, when there was no such euphoria in the air.Grant's slow attrition...
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Shot In Head John Wilkes Booth killed President Abraham Lincoln by shooting him in the back of the head as the president was...
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The immediate trigger was the election of Lincoln as the first president from the newly-formed Republican party, which favoured...
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Confederate artillery, under their local commander P.G.T. Beauregard, acting under orders from the Confederate president...
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The first shots were fired by Confederate artillery in Charleston on April 12th 1861.
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Absolutely not. A revolution is when a group of peoplle are not satisfied with their leadership or whomever controls their...
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Surrender the Army of Northern Virginia to U.S. Grant.This act was taken as the notional ending of the Civil War, although Joe...
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The slaves that were liberated by the Union armies eventually became accepted as soldiers in Northern regiments. At the very...
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Henry Halleck ordered him back to Washington to join forces with John Pope and make another advance on Richmond from there.
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A rather desperate attempt to manage the admission of California as free soil.To placate the South, Congress agreed to a new...
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The Nullification crisis (refusal to pay import tariffs) was an assertion of states' rights, which included the right to own...
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It wasn't needed but it was bound to happen since all the parties involved couldn't solve the problems without killing each...
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I assume this means Sherman in Georgia and Sheridan in the Shenandoah.Sherman's campaign was far more orderly than it has been...
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It cost America $6,190,000,000.
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Yes, both sides brought in draft laws when it became clear that this was not going to be a short war. New immigrants arriving in...
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In the first years of the war, both sides were equally keen to exchange prisoners and bring them home, for the sake of civilian...
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A notional new country - the Confederate States of America.
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Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Arkansas.
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P.G.T. Beauregard.
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George McClellan commanded the victorious Union army. But it didn't do him much good. He had enjoyed amazing good luck when a...
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