DK - The American Civil War
Romantic enthusiasm for war placed pressure on Northern leaders to seek a swift military decision. But their haste led to a Nort ...
The First Battle of Bull Run Pre-Civil War America had seen little real military action and knew nothing of war beyond fantastic ...
resulted more in bewilderment than anything else. Foreshadowing problems that would persist throughout much of the war, Union fo ...
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Union and Confederate forces met for the first time at Bull Run. With local Washingtonians watching from a nearby hill, the unte ...
Organizing for the Fight After Bull Run, both the Union and the Confederacy realized that the war would not end in one single cl ...
ORGANIZING FOR THE FIGHT Winfield Scott’s retirement in late 1861 helped trigger unprecedented changes in the size and scale of ...
George B. McClellan became head of the Illinois Central Railroad, remaining a railroad man until the outbreak of the Civil War, ...
the outspoken Democrat and opponent of emancipation, who, as yet, had won no significant victories on the battlefield to erase t ...
The Sinews of War Both the Union and the Confederacy had to build the bureaucratic and physical infrastructure necessary for wag ...
As the years passed, the Union’s superiority became increasingly apparent in developments such as the use of new weapons and tra ...
Missouri and Kentucky While Missouri remained in the Union, it was beset by the war’s worst violence on both sides. The more str ...
MISSOURI AND KENTUCKY Kentucky’s Unionism was a strategic blow to the Confederacy, but its Unionists became increasingly unhappy ...
this Union war measure, and little reason to risk a war with Lincoln’s government over this issue. In order to enforce this bloc ...
BLOCKADING THE SOUTH capture of the South’s ports could provide a foolproof way of restricting Confederate shipping. Swift steam ...
YOUNG RECRUITS JOIN THEIR SHIP The USS Wabash leaving New York for the Seat of War, painted by Edward Moran in 1861, captures th ...
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Courting European Allies Many Confederates believed that Great Britain would intervene in their favor, but it proved reluctant t ...
COURTING EUROPEAN ALLIES AFTER Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, issued after the Battle of Antietam, doomed Conf ...
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