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| | | | | Pickett's Charge is one of the most infamous attacks of the American Civil War. This post seeks to analyze the attack and why it failed. | |
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| | | | | The Fourth of July has always been an important day in the U.S. It marks the day in 1776 when the colonies issued the Declaration of Independence from the British Empire. A new nation was born, at least for a little while. In 1861 that nation was torn apart by a bloody Civil War that saw its turning point on another fourth of July, that of 1863. On that day the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant. The Union army had been trying to take it since the beginning of the war. The fortified city was the key to the Mississippi River. If the North could control the river it would cut ... | |
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| | | | | Late in the afternoon of July 1, 1863, after a full day of fierce fighting, Confederate troopshaddriventhe Union defenders from the fields west of Gettysburg. As the Union troops fledthrough the towneast toward Cemetery Hill, General Robert E. Lee senta discretionary orderto Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell,meaning he left the decision of whether tomake a... | |
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| | | The Civil War started early in Missouri. In 1854 fighting flared up over whether the neighboring Kansas Territory would become a slave state. Pro-slavery Missourians raided Kansas to kill and intimidate abolitionists, and Kansans raided Missouri, killing slave owners and liberating slaves. When the first official shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861, Missouri was already prepared for an all-out fight, yet nobody knew which side it would take. While Missouri's legislature and much of its population supported the South, its large German-American population and many of its cities and towns were Unionist. The Confederates made the first move. The secessionist State Guard camped on the edge of St. Louis, supposedly for ... | ||
