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CONFEDERATE ARMY HAD SUFFERED 2,000 CASUALTIES.
UNION LOST ABOUT 2,900. |
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July 21, 1861
Manassas, Virginia.
Union: Brigadier General Irvin McDowell
Confederate: Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnston and General P.G.T. Beauregard
Victory for the Confederate forces. However, approximately 5,000 men died. Of those, 3,000 were Union soldiers. |
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Confederate Commander
elad to victory in first battkle of manassas
He surrendered to the Union in April 1865. |
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Union Army
McDowell was promoted to brigadier general in the regular army on May
given command of the Army of Northeastern Virginia |
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34-YEAR-OLD GENERAL.
Cammander and Cheif Of Union army |
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AKA-Stonewall Jackson
Brigadeer-General Barnard E. Bee stated, "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall."
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| general-in-chief of Confederate forces.Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. |
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| At the battle of First Manassas, Burnside commanded a brigade of infantry, and was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers |
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April 6-7, 1862
Shiloh, Tennessee in Hardin County, Tennessee. Another name for the battle was Pittsburg Landing.
Union: Major General Ulysses S. Grant and Major General Don Carlos Buell
Confederate: General Albert Sidney Johnston and General P.G.T. Beauregard
Union lost 13,000
Confederates lost 10,000 |
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The Battle of Gaines' Mill was fought June 27, 1862, during the American Civil War and was the second of the Seven Days Battles.
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•Major General George B. McClellan
•Brigadier General Fitz John Porter
•34,214 men
Confederate
•General Robert E. Lee
•57,018 men
AKA Battle of Gains/ Mill |
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September 16-18, 1862
Sharpsburg, Maryland
Union: Major General George B. McClellan
Confederate: General Robert E. Lee
The result of the battle was inconclusive but the north did win a strategic advantage. 23,100 casualties.
The Battle of Antietam forced the Confederate Army to retreat back across the Potomac River. President Lincoln saw the significance of this and issued the famous Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. |
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December 11-15, 1862
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Confederate Victory. 17,929 casualties of which 13,353 were Union soldiers.
Union: Major General Ambrose E. Burnside
Confederate: General Robert E. Lee |
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