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Causes of the Civil War
Causes of the Civil War

... • 4. What is SC justification for secession using the Compact Theory? • 5. Why is it no surprise that it is SC 1st to secede? 4th needs to stop here • 6. Give 2 reasons the death toll in the Civil War was more than all other U.S. wars combined: • 7. Contrast the South’s view of Lincoln against Linco ...
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... afternoon, they had established a battle line at the sunken road, known as the "Hornets Nest." Repeated Rebel attacks failed to carry the Hornets Nest, but massed artillery helped to turn the tide as Confederates surrounded the Union troops and captured, killed, or wounded most. Johnston had been mo ...
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... Jersey. In 1862, he answered President Lincoln's call for an additional 300,000 soldiers. Nearly ...
LAG-25 Gettysburg
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Chapter 16
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The North Wins
The North Wins

... Battling southward from Tennessee, Sherman took Atlanta in September 1864. He then set out on a march to the sea, cutting a path of destruction up to 60 miles wide and 300 miles long through Georgia. Sherman waged total war: a war not only against enemy troops, but against everything that supports t ...
to read a detailed history of the Doubleday Inn and its grounds.
to read a detailed history of the Doubleday Inn and its grounds.

... Oak Ridge was the scene of vicious fighting on Wednesday July 1, 1863. This, the opening day of the momentous Battle of Gettysburg, along with the concurrent fall of Vicksburg, was the turning point of the American Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg began in the morning of July 1, 1863 in the field ...
Civil War Website Treasure Hunt (updated 7/2003 by Susan C
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home fires - Tennessee Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans
home fires - Tennessee Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans

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The Civil War
The Civil War

... But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never f ...
Civil War Clothes, Food, and Music
Civil War Clothes, Food, and Music

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William Bradford (1590-1657) - Garnet Valley School District
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Gettysburg Campaign Brochure
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36. Part One of Reconstruction
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The causes of the Civil War
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... Sherman in Atlanta (446) Grant & Lee in Virginia, Map. p. 447 Sherman’s March to the Sea (451) Standard 2B : The student understands the social experience of the war on the battlefield and home front. Women and War (410) Nurses (Dorothea Dix) Primary Sources – Louisa May Alcott, etc. (411) Clara Ba ...
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The Free and Independent State of Scott
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The Confederacy Wears Down
The Confederacy Wears Down

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Confederate States - Henry County Schools
Confederate States - Henry County Schools

... • In spite of crippling casualties, Lee continued to skirmish with McClellan throughout the 18th, while removing his wounded south of the river. McClellan did not renew the assaults. • After dark, Lee ordered the battered Army of Northern Virginia to withdraw across the Potomac into the Shenandoah V ...
The Civil War 1864-1865
The Civil War 1864-1865

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Surrender at Appomattox Court House
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... The Official surrender took place on April 9, 1865. This surrender by the Confederacy’s top military leader officially ended the Civil War. The surrender took place in a house that belonged to a man by the name of Wilmer McLean. A much larger Union Army at Richmond, Virginia soundly defeated the Arm ...
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Battle of Fort Pillow



The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. The battle ended with a massacre of Federal troops (most of them African American) attempting to surrender, by soldiers under the command of Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Military historian David J. Eicher concluded, ""Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history.""
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