who saved the Union army at Chattanooga?
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Major General Gordon Granger was the one who really saved the Army But, you history book wants you to select George H. Thomas.  William S. Rosecrans' commanded the Army of the Cumberland but again your teacher wants you to name Grant.\n\nGod Bless the Army of Tennessee and the Southern People.
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The Battle of Franklin- it broke the back of the Confederacy and allowed the Union to gain the upper hand and concerted on one front.\n\nThe reelection of Lincoln- If he had not been reelected General McClellan would have sued for peace.\n\nThe Battle of Five Forks it allowed Petersburg to fall and made Lee leave the trenches.\n\nThe failure of France and England to intercede on behalf of the South, like Iraqi the wealthiest 10 % of the population cause and keep the war going, the South were winning to give up slavery but not with someone demanding it.\n\nThe technology advancements such as the submarine, rifled muskets, balloonist, telegraph which coincides with the loss of manpower in the South forcing after the War innovations to improve labor.\n\nGod Bless You and The Southern People.
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General Hooker, of the Union, wished to envelope, or surround, Robert E Lee's Confederate forces.  Hooker had assembled approximately 70,000 well rested Union forces, while Lee had trouble mustering his 40,000 forces.  Hooker felt, based partly on the Union's failure at Fredericksburg, that it was better to be on the defensive then the offensive.  So he took up defensive positions around the town and in the wilderness.  The idea was that Lee would either have to attack or withdraw.\n\nLee decided to accept the challenge and to attack.  He decided to gamble.  He gave his best general, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, about 28,000 troops.  The idea was that Jackson would flank the Union while Lee distracted them with the remaining troops.  The plan required Jackson to move his troops without being noticed and this is what happened.  Hooker stayed contendely in his defensive position thinking Lee was withdrwaing, when Jacksons troops were finally spotted.  \n\nThe real fighting began once the Confederates had the position they wanted and so the Battle of Chancellorsville had begun.\n\nBelow is a link to a National Park Service website which will elaborate on what I just wrote.
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Yes, this was a battle on Christmas day in 1864 by a joint army-navy Union Army force on Fort Filsher... which was a Confedeeracy bstion that, at that time, protected the South's remaining major port of Wilmington, N.C.\n\nAs a result of that fizzled battle, the 10,000 Union attackers suffered 1,338 casualties. The 1,500 Rebels lost about 500 killed and wounded, with the rest captured.
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Try here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
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Major General Phillip Sheridan was relentless in his efforts. He did whatever it took to win. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called "The Burning" by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched earth tactics in the war. In 1865, his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at Appomattox.
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Not much.  He lost most of the battles he fought, and got relieved of duty after the Battle of Chattanooga.  Probably the most important thing he did was to command the troops who traveled with Jefferson Davis as bodyguards after the fall of Richmond, before Davis surrendered.
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There were 2 battles here. It was also called the Battle of Manassass. It was the first land battle of the Civil war. The Union troops were inexperienced,and forced to retreat. For more info I added the link
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Gen. Fitzporter for his tardy arrival on the left flank and failure to threaten Longstreets attack that crushed the Union Army...There was some justification but NO Union General was very swift that day and Porter was the slowest in the 'recognizing the obviuos' catagory...
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There were a number of mistakes made by Lee, but I believe that the biggest mistake he made was not listening to advice by Longstreet and others in his staff who believed that it was not a good idea to attack the ridge known as "Pickett's Charge".\nAnother big mistake was attacking without knowing how many enemy he was up against. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry was too far north at the time and had not reported back to Lee until after the first engagement with the enemy. By then there was no turning back. The battle was on.
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One of the most famous battles, and also one of the bloodiest, took place in West Tennessee.  It was called the battle of Shiloh.  It only took place from April 6-7, 1862.  For the Union it was led by Ulysees S. Grant and Don Carlos Buell.  For the Confederates it was Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard, Johnston actually died in this battle.  The union had about 67,000 soldiers fight and the confederates had about 45,000.  13,047 Union soldiers were hurt in this battle, 1,754 killed, 8,408 wounded and the rest were missing or captured.  The confederates had 10,684 hurt, 1,723 killed, 8,012 wounded, and 959 missing or captured.  The Union won The Battle of Shiloh.  \n\nOne from Middle Tennessee was the Battle of Stones River.  Here's just the facts:\n\nResult(s): Union victory\n\nLocation: Rutherford County\n\nCampaign: Stones River Campaign (1862-63)\n\nDate(s): December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863\n\nPrincipal Commanders: Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans [US]; Gen. Braxton Bragg [CS]\n\nForces Engaged: Army of the Cumberland [US]; Army of Tennessee [CS]\n\nEstimated Casualties: 23,515 total (US 13,249; CS 10,266)\n\nHope this helps!
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Claibourne  the fighting irishman on tunnel hill i think on the extreme right of the rebel line and it was his repulse of sherman that led grant to call out the army of the ohio?  or was it the cumberland to take position in the center just as a show of force to make the rebs thin their line out...Thomas' troops had other ideas and ended up charging and somehow taking the damn ridge  damnyankees!!!!!   Damn Braxton Bragg !!!!!!!!!!!!!\nI think it was this charge that Douglas MacArthur's father won the Medeal of Honor....
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pretty close...chattanooga tennessee
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"Godoompah" & "Starry Eyes" are correct.  The Civil War was an unmitigated disaster for both sides.  If that doesn't make sense to you; if you really can't understand how both sides could lose, then just try this simple three-step process....\n\n1) Open your eyes and read the deathtoll:\n    \n    120,000 killed in action \n    240,000 died of other causes \n  ~360,000 TOTAL Union dead and/or missing \n\n     95,000 killed in action \n   165,000 died of other causes \n ~260,000 TOTAL Confederate dead and/or missing \n\n  ~620,000 Union and Confederate soldiers \n   UNKNOWN total Northern and Southern civilian\n   casualties \n  \n2) Open your mind and think about it....\n\n3) Open your heart and feel about it....\n\nIf you really do this, neither the Civil War nor any of the other Overklass-generated orgies of mass murder will ever look the same again.....\n\nBefore some damn fool says so, I'm not a pacifist, a communist, or even a liberal ; I'm just a middle-aged guy who lived long enough to see through some of the crap our Beloved Leaders keep throwing at us to keep us all permanently mind-f***ed....\n\nNimadan
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You are all wrong! Napoleon lost the campaign in Russia at the very first battle when he crossed the frontier. He allowed his stepson Eugene to lead the most critical army, but he was not nearly as aggressive as he needed to be. As a result, Bagratian's Russian armies were able to avoid encirclement and destruction. From that point, because the Grand Armee was so big, so cumbersome and made of units from so many different nations, Napoleon was never able to catch the Russians until they were forced for their own reasons to turn and fight at Borodino (Kutuzov knew full well that he would be defeated, but dared not refuse Tzar Alexander). The Russians stayed at Borodino long enough to bloody the Grand Armee's nose but then fled again. Napoleon could run all over Russia with impunity, but no particular piece of land was so important that it could force Alexander to beg for terms. The winter simply turned a defeat from a catastrophe into a calamity.
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Logically, a vast majority of the later casualties on both sides can be directly attributed to McClellan's reluctance to fight early on. He could have dealt a devastating, and potentially war ending, blow to the confederates when their army was stranded out on the peninsula, however he wanted to wait, and allowed them to escape. \n\nLee was the best man in the war, and if he had been a Union General, the war wouldn't have been much more than police action LOL.
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The charge was one of Lee's greatest military blunders of the Civil War.  Charging against positions entrenched on higher ground with massed artillery over an open field of fire.   The results were the same at Fredricksburg, but the roles were reversed, both fatal and futile attacks.\n\nIn defense of Lee, many historians have pointed out that Lee felt the largest artillery bombardment of the war would've soften up the Union Line.  Also the attacks on the Union Left at Little Round top and Culp's Hill the previous day had left the Union Center weakened.  \n\nThe Southern artillery barrage overshot their targets and because of the 'hook' shape of the battlefield, the North was able to easily reinforce the center.\n\nIn any event, Lee should've listened to Longstreets pleading to circle the Union left on the 2nd coming upon the exposed artillery train and supply wagons.