Battle of Vicksburg

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www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/january/battle-vicksburg.htm.

       The Battle of Vicksburg was a major battle that accued in the spring of 1863. It is mostly known as the turning point of the Civil War. It was the key tp success for the side who claimed victory. When the uniojn did that war was changed from that point forward.

Mi'quaesha Mcmullen

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       The course that Ulysses S. Grant took to begin the battle of Vicksburg started in the winter of 1862-63. In March, Ulysses S. Grant marched his army down the west bank of the Mississippi. The Confedrates ran past the Substantial batteries that protected the city. Grant crossed the river and entered Vicksburg.

Madison Rongholt

       Grant sent a thousand men forward the Stockade Redan. The 36th Mississisppi infantry defended the redan but it provided impossible to take. Grant open fired on Vicksburg on the night of May 21 with more than 220 pieces of artillery. Union warships joined in the southern soldiers and civilians tunneled into the ground to protect themselves from the barrage. Federals tried to break though the southern lines, and became a hand to hand fight. This battle turned into a brutal fight. A lot of Union soldiers were wounded and dead, and fewer than 500 southeners were hurt or killed. This battle turned to an on going fight. When it ended Mississippi was controlled by the Union.
Jernecia Wilson

       In the three weeks since Grant crossed the Mississippi in the campaign to capture Vicksburg his men marched 180 miles and won five battles. They took nearly 100 confederate artillery pieces and nearly 6,000 prisoners, all with relativelt light losses. Vicksburg became an important Union dastion after the surrender and remained so though the end of the war. It thrives today as a commerical and torism destination. Without the battle of Vicksburg the Union might have not won the Civil war, it was a huge aspect to the winning of the Civil war.

Dre Gaston





Work Citied:
www.exploresouthernhistory.com/vicksburg/.html
www.historynot.com/battle-of-vicksburg
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-siege-of-vicksburg-commences?special=true



 Battle of Fort Sumter--LOSS

          December 20, 1860, United States Maj. Robert Anderson and his force of 85 soldiers moved his command to Fort Sumter, which was an imposing fortification in the middle of the harbor.  The union only had 6 weeks of food and they knew they wouldn't last long.  Confederate patience for a foreign force in its territory was wearing thin.  On April 11, 1861 the war began and the confederate army opened fire on the union in Fort Sumter.   The confederate opened fire for 34 hours.

-Jesse Drury.

(ourdocuments.gov)

         At 2:30 AM on April 13, 1861, Major Anderson surrendered the Fort.  The confederates won the battle.  Beauregard (commander in the south) won over Anderson (commander in the north).  The Battle of Fort Sumter sparked the Civil War.  "Although no one died in the first battle itself, the Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history."

-Alex Beckley.

 (history.com)

         After the end of Fort Sumter, four more states joined the Confederacy: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas.  Now the battle lines were now drawn.  Although being outnumbered nearly 12million, the South's army was almost equal to that of the North's.  The South's greatest strength was that  it was fighting in its own territory.  While the North appeared stronger, many factors undetermined at the outbreak of war could have made a difference in the outcome.

-Alex Beckley.

(youtube.com)

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                         The Battle Of Atlanta

 

      The battle of Atlanta happened on July 22, 1864 during the civil war. The battle was led by General Sherman T. Sherman from the union forces. The purpose of this battle was to force the states that had seceded from the union to unite again. One of these states was Georgia, which to this day has Atlanta as its capital. During this battle the loses we're very heavy on both sides but mainly for the south. In the end the union won and Atlanta was destroyed.
                                                   Maykelin Lopez
   
        The battle of Atlanta was followed by the Battle of Peachtree Creek.  The key generals in this battle were General William T. Sherman of the Union and General John Bell Hood of the South.  General Hood was determined to attack Major General James B. McPherson’s Army of Tennessee. So Hood withdrew his main army at night from Atlanta’s outer line to the inner line, hoping Sherman would follow.  In the meantime, Hood sent William J. Hardee with his men on a fifteen-mile march to attack the unprotected Union left and rear.  Wheeler’s cavalry was to cut off Sherman's supply line and General Frank Cheatham’s troops were to attack the Union front. Hood, however, miscalculated the time necessary to make the march, and Hardee was unable to attack until afternoon. Although Hood had avoided  Sherman for the time being, McPherson was concerned about his left flank and sent his reserves to the location. Two of Hood’s divisions ran into this reserve force and were stopped in their tracks.  The Rebel attack stalled on the Union rear but began to roll up the left flank. At about the same time, a Confederate soldier shot and killed McPherson when he rode out to observe the fighting. The South kept fighting but the Union held their ground.  About 4:00 pm, Cheatham’s troops broke through the Union front but Sherman had twenty artillery pieces near his headquarters to shoot the Confederates and stop them in their tracks.  Major General John A. Logan’ s troops then led a counterattack that restored the Union line. The Union troops held and Hood had many casualties.
                                                  Julian Welborn
 
     General Sherman and some of his soldiers went to Savannah, Georgia. They went there to frighten the people of Georgia so they could think twice before they made another bad decision such as when they decided to leave the union. As they marched through Georgia they were stealing food and livestock from the citizens there. General Shermans' soldiers also destroyed and burned down the homes of many people in Georgia. They burned the houses of the people that tried to fight them back. Sherman and his soldiers left Savannah and pillaged, they burned their way through Carolina.
                                       Jaquille G.

      At the end of the war, the south did not succeed. Every strategy  they tried did not help them overcome the union. The south failed due to a variety of reasons, some of them being uncordinated attacks and they had virtually no firepower. The union's attacks and strategies were unexpected also led to the down fall of the south. In the end the south was ultimately destroyed in Sherman's "March to the Sea."
              Destiny Curry

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Works cited:
 

"The Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864." The Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2012. http://ngeorgia.com/history/battleofatlanta.html.

 

 

The Battle of Gettysburg

  Before the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War had been going on for two years. Although the people of the southern states were doing well at this point in time, Robert E. Lee wanted to expand the territory of the Confederates. Lee ended up trying to take Pennsylvania because its farmlands were not destroyed by the war. Lee’s goal was to destroy the railroad bridge in Harrisburg, PA, and then move his army to attack Philadelphia and Baltimore. His army began in Richmond, VA and traveled north, (on their second attempt), to Harrisburg. The Battle of Gettysburg was not intended by either the North or the South. It started because the Confederate soldiers had traveled such a long way from Richmond, that many had no shoes. When they got news there was a shoe factory in Gettysburg they decided to head there. After arriving, the Confederates ran into the Union Calvary. (Ashley)

  On the second day of battle the Union defended a fishhook-shaped range of hills and ridges south of Gettysburg with around 90,000 soldiers. Confederates substantially wrapped around the Union position with 70,000 soldiers.(Asia)
 One of the major turning points of not only the Battle of Gettysburg, but the Civil War was the assault at Little Round Top. This battle has been said to have set the South on a long irreversible path to defeat. (Garrett)
  On July 3rd fighting continued on Culp’s Hill, and Calvary battles raged to the east and south but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12,000 Confederates against the center of the Union line on cemetery Ridge Pickett’s charge, leading his army back to Virginia. Robert E. Lee having 51,000 soldiers killed or either wounded, missing, or captured.(Asia)

  Towards the ending of the battle more than 23,000 northerners out of 88,000 were killed and 28,000 confederate troops out of 75,000 were killed. The Civil War battle of Gettysburg lasted 3 days. In the end, after the south fail to invade the North, Robert E. Lee and his remaining confederate army were forced to retreat back to Virginia and did not return back to the North.

  Sadly enough, the Gettysburg Battle did not end the war. After the war Abraham Lincoln wrote a speech known as “The Gettysburg Address which commemorated the Gettysburg Battlefield. Which was one of the bloodiest battles fought during the Civil War. The speech, however, did not become known until 7 years later. (Nayomi)

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The Battle of Antietam

       During the Civil War the Battle of Antietam was one of the bloodiest wars in American  history. It lasted only a day but there were many fatalities and casualties. It wasnt a major win for the Union but it was enough for President Abraham Lincoln. -Tre Stanley

       The first few hours of the fighting took place on a thirty-acre cornfield. General Robert E. Lee advanced into Maryland, believing that the potential strategic justified his defiance to knowledge the Confederate defensive policy. Lee's plan divided his outnumbered force; disaster came when a lost copy of that plan was founded to the Union commander, General George B. McClellan. However McClellan wasted all the advanteages of his lucky discovery and his two-to-one numerical superiority. The battleground was well suited for Lee's defense but dangerous as well, having the Potomac River behind him. McClellan planned to defeat Lee's left side but failed to exercise command control, so the conflict diffused south along the battle line. After came a series of bloody head-on attacks againsts Lee's center that finally overran the area afterward called Bloody Lane. The last action of the day was against Lee's right, where Union troops piercedn the line but were stopped by late-arriving Confederate reinforcements. -Eryn Davis

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       After the battle 23,000 soldiers were killed or wounded or went missing in battle after twelve hours of savage combat on September 17, 1862. This was the end of the Antietam Battle. Logan Mangan

 

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/civil_war_us_/battle_of__antietam/index.html

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Trudeau, Noah A. "Battle of Antietam." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2012. http://www.history.com/topics/battle-of-antietam.



"Antietam." National Park Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2012. http://www.nps.gov/ancm/index.htm.

 

"Civil War Trust." The Battle of Antietam Summary & Facts. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2012. http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam.html.

 

 

 

 





The Battle of Manassas

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       The Battle of Manassas was the "first major land battle of the armies in Virginia." It was located in Fairfax County and Prince William County. This battle is also known as the First Bull Run. It all started on July 21, 1861. -Alex Bigham

"First Manassas." Battle Summary: Manassas, First VA. Heritate Preservation Services, n.d. Web 9 Nov. 2012. http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/va005.htm.

historyrat.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/bullrun/

       "Although neither army was adequetly prepared at this early stage of the war." Irvin Mcdowell advanced the Southwest of Washington to Bull Run while on the move against Richmond, Virginia. "On July, 21st the Union army assaulted the Confederates." The battle went back and forth. They finally arrived to Johnson's last brigade force." From among 31,000 Northern men, casualties numbers about 3,000 to 35, 000 Southern troops. Between 1,700 and 2,000 were wounded or lost.   -Charnell Mcfadden

"Battles of Bull Run" Encyclopedia Britannaicei Mobile. Encyclopedia Britannaica, Inc, 2012. Web. 9 Nov. 2012. http://m.search.eb.com/topic/84354

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       The battle was a fierce and scary one. The Union put up a good fight at first, but the Confederates broke the Unions right flank. The Union soliders rushed to retreat towards Washington. This victory gave the South a spark of confidence and scared the North. After this battle, Abraham Lincoln knew that it would not be an easy win. -Ghassane Zyati

"First Battle of Bull Run(Manassas)." History.com A&E Televison Networks, n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2012. http://history.com/topics/battle-of-first-bull-run7.

Students completed a Halloween project where they picked a significant person in American history to research.  They were required to write a paper, create a visual and dress up as their character on Halloween (the due date of the project).  Below is a picture of 1st block students dressed up as their characters! The winning costume for this class was Katy Glover as Rosie the Riveter.