DK - The American Civil War
TIMELINE 1863 JULY 1 Bragg’s Confederate forces withdraw from Tullahoma toward Chattanooga in Tennessee. AUGUST 8 Lee offers Pre ...
The Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation of New Year’s Day, 1863, transformed the nature of the Civil War and ...
against slavery, obliged the president to act decisively—he had, after all, run for the White House in 1860 on a platform devote ...
African-Americans in the War The plight of African-Americans during the Civil War varied tremendously, depending on where they l ...
brought them along to war; a sizeable percentage of officers, especially early in the conflict, did bring a slave with them, but ...
EYEWITNESS 1862–65 In the early stages of the Civil War, slaves living in the Confederacy who escaped to the Union side were kno ...
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Harriet Tubman no one could wake her. During these episodes she claimed to commune with God and learn His plans for her life. He ...
President Lincoln seemed to reverse his anti-slavery stance by publicly reprimanding Union General David Hunter’s “local” abolit ...
The Role of Black Troops The idea of black soldiers was initially anathema to many in the North, but by mid-1863, state-raised b ...
THE ROLE OF BLACK TROOPS Barbarities were not uncommon; the most notorious were those committed at Fort Pillow, a Union garrison ...
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Strategically located on South Carolina’s Morris Island, Fort Wagner played a crucial role in the protection of Charleston. In J ...
Immigrants in the Ranks Immigrants to the United States came mainly from Ireland and Germany, and since relatively few settled i ...
German-born Northerners questioned their participation in the war and began to turn inward, toward themselves and their ethnic c ...
THE UNION TIGHTENS ITS GRIP 1863 M ajor General Joseph Hooker drew up a grand operational plan for the Army of the Potomac in th ...
THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE AFTER men of the Eleventh Corps. There was no time for the Union regiments to realign and react; ...
At the Battle of Chancellorsville, General Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by his own troops while reconnoitering in fro ...
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Lee Advances North The Confederate high command approved Lee’s strategy of invading the North for a second time. In mid-June 186 ...
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