Civil War

The Civil War a major turning point in U.S. History had a major effect on our country. It lasted four years and affected the entire nation. Many famous battles were fought and charges were led. Many famous generals and many infamous people were lost, and many thousands were killed.

On July 1863, one of the bloodiest battles of the civil war began at Gettysburg; Pennsylvania Confederate troops led by General Robert E. Lee initially drove back General Gorge Meades. Union forces took a strong defensive position. After two days of fighting, lee was unable to break the union line. (Battles and Leaders of the Civil War).

Next, on July 1, advance units of the two armies stumbled into each other near the little town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ten miles north of the Maryland border. Both Lee and Meade realized that a battle was unavoidable. Fighting that day union troops after early revises managed to hold a strategic position on cemetery hill. The second day of July, saw confused fighting on both union flanks. (Battles and Leaders of the Civil War).

Finally, Gettysburg and Vicksburg were among the most important Union victories in more than two years of war. Strangely, they coincided with a violent out burst of disloyalty in

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Next, the aftermath of the battle cost the city 15 million dollars and several lives to fix it. Meads casualties were 23,000 and lees 25,000. Jackson turned and defeated the army’s trying to attack his rear ranks from the east to the west. Both Generals moved there army’s equal in strategic ways to out smart the other one. The confederate government hoped that a decisive victory on northern soil would win the foreign recognition of the confederacy.

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