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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.
February 16: Texas forces seize the United States Arsenal and Barracks at San Antonio. [322] February 18: U.S. Brigadier General and Brevet Major General David E. Twiggs surrenders U. S. military posts in the Department of Texas to the State of Texas and effectively surrenders the one-fourth of the United States Army which
On March 24, 1865, the day before the Confederate attack on Fort Stedman, Grant already had planned for an offensive to begin March 29, 1865. [26] The objectives were to draw the Confederates out into a battle where they might be defeated and, if the Confederates held their lines, to cut the remaining road and railroad supply and communication routes between areas of the Confederacy still ...
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
Cook, Robert J. Civil War memories: Contesting the past in the United States since 1865 (JHU Press, 2017) online. Eldridge, Brandon M. (2021) "The Ever-Evolving Historiography of the American Civil War," Graduate Review 1#1 pp. 55-61 online; Escott, Paul D. Rethinking the Civil War Era: Directions for Research (University Press of Kentucky ...
We can take all the northern ports of the Confederacy and they can defy us from Vicksburg." Gettysburg was the first major defeat suffered by Lee. The three-day battle witnessed the Union Army of the Potomac decisively repel his second invasion of the North and inflicted serious casualties on his Army of Northern Virginia.
This is a list of conflicts in the United States. Conflicts are arranged chronologically from the late modern period to contemporary history . This list includes (but is not limited to) the following: Indian wars , skirmishes , wars of independence , liberation wars , colonial wars , undeclared wars , proxy wars , territorial disputes , and ...
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.The combat between the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee included futile frontal attacks by the Union army on December 13 against entrenched ...