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The state of New Jersey in the United States provided a source of troops, equipment and leaders for the Union during the American Civil War.Though no major battles were fought in New Jersey, soldiers and volunteers from New Jersey played an important part in the war, including Philip Kearny and George B. McClellan, who led the Army of the Potomac early in the Civil War and unsuccessfully ran ...
Unshaded areas were not states before or during the Civil War. Historical military map of the border and southern states by Phelps & Watson, 1866. In the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states or the Border South were four, later five, slave states in the Upper South that primarily supported the Union.
Slavery was a divisive issue in the United States. It was a major issue during the writing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787, the subject of political crises in the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 and was the primary cause of the American Civil War in 1861. Just before the Civil War, there were 19 free states and 15 slave ...
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 23:47, 23 February 2007: 787 × 483 (111 KB): Tintazul {{Tintazul |Description=United States map of 1861, show affiliation of states and territories regarding the Secession War (Civil War.)
Confederates repulse the Union attack and kill Commander James H. Ward of the Union Potomac Flotilla, the first Union Navy officer killed during the Civil War. July 13, 1861: Battle of Corrick's Ford: West Virginia (Virginia at the time) [A] Union: Confederate Brig. Gen. Robert S. Garnett is the first general killed in the Civil War. July 25, 1861
American Civil War, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865 New Jersey in the American Civil War; Grover Cleveland becomes 22nd President of the United States on March 4, 1885; Grover Cleveland also becomes 24th President of the United States on March 4, 1893; New Jersey in the 20th century. Woodrow Wilson becomes 28th President of the United States on ...
New Jersey at first refused to ratify the Constitutional Amendments that banned slavery. New Jersey was a major part of the extensive Underground Railroad system. No battles took place within New Jersey throughout the course of the Civil War. However, over 88,000 soldiers from New Jersey were part of several infantry and cavalry regiments.