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    arsenal in Massachusetts produced over one million rifles for the army and countless rounds of ammo by themselves.” The South was more agricultural. Even though, they only worked on planting their cash crops. Also, there were so many people fighting in the war, a lot of the farmland that was left was never used. “Food was so limited throughout the war, parts of the South suffered from starvation. When people fighting in the army found out that their families were starving, they left to help…

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    attack Richmond but was rejected in Washington. Hooker was then replaced by General George Meade. Stuart decided to ride around the Union Army to gather troop information. Stuarts costly decision took longer than expected, so Lee had to go without knowing where the Union Army was positioned. Lee was surprised that the Union Army was closer than he thought. His army was spread out along a 40-mile arc and was short on information about his enemy’s position. A small group of Confederate soldiers…

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    Northern War Strategy

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    vision was an 80,000 man army pushing down the Mississippi River, severing the Confederacy in half while the Union navy instituted a blockade to suffocate and cut of the South’s trade. One factor that Scott and many of his staff thought was unique in the war was that a bulk of Southerners were pro-Unionist and were being suppressed by an elitist minority. This idea evolved into a strategy of slowly approaching and attacking key southern cities was favored to allow time for Northern sympathizers…

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    battles throughout the Civil War, it becomes clear that the South’s military superiority leans largely on the legacy of Robert E. Lee. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, won stunning victories despite being outnumbered in almost every major campaign. Jefferson Davis saw Lee as the best general and thus placed him in northern Virginia to protect the Confederacy’s most important industrial state. However, superior Confederate leadership stops with Lee. The Confederate cause suffered…

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    made a vast fortune on slavery and its commodities. It wasn’t until the South decided to leave the Union the North objected because the North knew it couldn’t survive without southern money. And finally, many northern civilians owned slaves prior to, during and even after the War of Northern Aggression. Most Union Generals and staff had slaves a few by name are: William T. Sherman had many slaves that served him until well after the war was over and did not free them until late 1865. U.S. Grant…

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    Counties between the dates May 5-7, 1864. The Battle of the Wilderness began Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant’s 1864 Overland Campaign against the Confederate army of Northern Virginia. After many weeks and horrendous casualties, it forced General Robert E. Lee’s men back to the defenses at Richmond. The fighting took place in an area of Virginia where tangled underbrush and trees had grown up in long-abandoned farmland. Close-quarters fighting among the dense woods created high casualties, but the…

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    John Preston Smith Speech

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    take the perspective of John Preston Smith. Smith wrote an address to the Convention of Virginia to address in summary, the expansion for non-slave holding states (Smith 1). Smith begins his address explaining the history of Virginia and her alliances with other states. He attempts to persuade the President and Virginia of reasoning for maintaining the slave system the two states shared. In his defense for Virginia, there are four lengthy arguments he made regarding the slave system. First, in…

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    Fires Of Jubilee Summary

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    Turner was born on October 17th of 1800. Turner was born into slavery. When Nat was born his mother tried to kill him rather than having him to see him grow up a slave. The book does not tell much about Turners father only that he later escaped to a northern state. The book does give quite a bit of background information on Turners mother, Nancy. Nancy was not born a slave she was brought to America in 1795. Nancy was purchased by a man named Benjamin Turner. Benjamin Turner was a very wealthy…

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    place between the northern Union and the southern Confederate Armies with both sides gaining and losing ground on an ever-changing basis. As the fighting continued, the Confederacy was striving for legitimacy from Europe (Lanning, Historyplace.com). To achieve this legitimacy the South decided to advance into the North and attack the Union troops on their own soil (Lanning, Historyplace.com). This was the reasoning to begin the Maryland Campaign in 1862; to fight the northern Army on their own…

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    The Union’s past failures had pushed Lincoln to the brink of collapse. He had expressed heavily that the key to the Union’s failures was the slowness of the Union army. Lincoln wanted his field commanders to set a trap for the enemy when they were invading the Union’s land, Lincoln also wanted his commanders to block the Confederate’s retreat route. On April 9, 1862, Lincoln sent a telegram to one of his struggling…

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