Civil+War

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Lincon was the 16th president. He was also born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. He also tried to stop slavery. He was tall and is know for whereing a hat and as honest abe.



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Clara Barton
Info. Provided by: http://www.civilwarhome.com/bartonbio.htm Website provided by: Google

[|Clara Barton] was born on December 25, 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest of 5 kids. She was educated at home, and when she was 15, she was already a teacher. Although she is remembered for founding the [|American Red Cross], during the Civil War, she was remembered for much more.

In 1861, Clara Barton was living in Washington, D.C., working at the U.S Patent Office. When the 6th Mass. Regiment arrived, she organized a relief program for the soldiers, and beginning a lifetime of charity.

When Clara Barton learned that many of the hurt soldiers were suffering from First Bull Run, not from more attention, but from neediness of medical supplies. So she started to ask for donations in the Worchester area, a she began an independent organization to distribute goods. The Relief organization was successful, and the next year after that, U.S Surgeon General [|William A. Hammond] gave her permission to travel with army ambulances, and said, “For the purpose of distributing comforts for the sick and the wounded, and nursing them.” For 3 years she followed army operations throughout the Virginia theater and in the Charleston Area in South Carolina. And her work in Fredericksburg, Virginia hospitals, caring for the injured from the battle of the Wilderness, and nursing work at Bermuda Hundred attracted national notice. And at this time she had formed her only forma Civil War connection with any organization when she served as superintendant of nurses in Maj. Gen. [|Benjamin F. Butlers] command.

She also expanded her concept of soldier aid, traveling to Camp Parole, Md., to organize a program for locating men listed as missing in action. Through interviews with Federals returning from Southern prisons, she was often able to determine the status of some of the missing and notify families. By the end of the war, Clara Barton had performed most of the services that would later he associated with the American Red Cross which she founded in 1881. And in 1904 she resigned as head of that organization, retiring to her home outside of Washington D.C., where she passed April 12, 1912.

(Info taken from http://www.pocanticohills.org/tubman/timeline2/1869.htm)

Harriet Tubman
[|Harriet Tubman] as born in [|Dorchester County, Maryland]. She got hit on the head with a heavy metal weight while helping a slave escape. I think that was very uncalled for. Harriet made her very first trip south to rescue some family members in December. She made her second trip back to Maryland in the Spring to get her brother and two other men. She is a very giving person, and when she wants something done she gets it done. Harriet rescued her mother and her father. This was her only summer trip on the [|Underground Railroad]. She is a very caring person, when it comes to someone or something she cares about. Her mother’s name was Harriet Green, and her father’s name was Ben Ross. Harriet led about 70 runaway slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Harriet helped rescue Charles Nalle, a runaway slave, in Troy, NY. During the Civil War, Harriet worked as a cook, a laundress, ( a laundry person) and a nurse at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Harriet worked as a spy and a scout for the Union Arm under the direction of the Secretary of War. [|Edwin M. Stanton]. Harriet helped lead a raid for the [|Union Army] up the [|Combahee River] in June freeing 750 slaves. The [|13th Amendment] was passed that freed all the slaves. Harriet Tubman bought a house at 13o South Street in Auburn to be used as a home for “aged and indigent colored people.” The Harriet Tubman home for the Aged opened in Auburn, N.Y. Harriet Tubman died of [|pneumonia] on March 10 in [|Auburn, New York]. New York Governor [|George E. Patiaki] signed into a law bill that established March 10 as a day of commemoration to honor a true American heroine-Harriet Tubman. Harriet was an escaped slave and a union spy and scout. And went back to the south 19 times to free slaves, she never lost a passenger. One day Harriet was sent to a dry goods store to get some supplies. She ran into a slave owned by a different family, refusing to help catch the slave, the slave owner threw a two pound weight at her and it hit her in the head, she was returned to her owner and laid on the seat of a loom and was unconscious for two days, when she was better she was sent back to the fields emmedently. She died by pneumonia (na-moan-ya). Where I got some of the stuff: [|google.com], [|images.google.com], and [|wiki.awnsers.com]

Image from Google

George Meade
Born December 31, 1815 in Cádiz, Spain Died November 6, 1872 (aged 56) He fought in the [|Seminole War] and [|Mexican-American War]. During the American Civil War he was a Union general, rising from command of a brigade to the [|Army of the Potomac].

John Brown
Born May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut Died December 2, 1859 (aged 59) John Brown was an [|abolitionist], who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the [|Pottawatomie Massacre] in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the not-so-succesful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859. John hated slavery because when he was 12 years old he watch in shock as a young boy was beaten with a iron shovel by a slave owner and that haunted him when he was growing up. He tried to teach his kids that slavery was a sin against god. He told his kids to respect all people. At a crowded antislavery meeting in 1837, John rose from his seat and declared that he would spend the rest of his life trying to destroy slavery. Old Baldy is George's horse. Image from Wikipedia. DIGISAPIEN PLAYS AS THIS GUY!!!

Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes Born October 4, 1822 in Delaware, Ohio Died January 17, 1893 (aged 70) Rutherford Birchard Hayes was an American politician, lawyer, military leader and the 19th President of the United States. Hayes was elected President by one electoral vote after the highly disputed election of 1876. Losing the popular vote to his opponent, [|Samuel Tilden], Hayes was the only president whose election was decided by a congressional commission.

Your in f[|ord theatre], you are watching a play called “Our American Cousin” a comedy play, suddenly, you hear a shot within the crowd behind you then you realize that [|Abe] is dead. He died at the age 56. Lincoln was also the first president to die by assignation. At 6 feet 4 inches, Abe was also the tallest president in history. Mrs. Lincoln’s brother, half-brother, and brothers in law all fought in the confederate army. Abe was born in a log cabin in Illinois in 1809. Now, I bet you know a lot about Lincoln that you didn’t know about before I told you, but what about people like Harriet Tubman? =George Meade= George meade was on of a [|u.s.a navel agent]. he was born in Cadiz, Spain on the 31st of December 1815. He later graduated from military academy in 1835. He only served a year in the army before quitting to become To become an engineer. He then rejoined the army in 1842.He fought in many battles of the Civil war, including the battle of bull run. He was a very important figure later on November 6, 1872 in Philadelphia he died of pneumonia.

Life During The War
Union won battles in the east but lost badly in the west. The battle of Gettysburg was supposed to end the cable war. The civil war started with the election of honest Abe then the south succeeds then they shot at the fort then the war started. Grant was a faille until the civil war gave him a secant chance then he graduated from and failed at that to then he tried tannery, farming, and a storekeeper fails at all three.

Important Events
Sweet Chariot was a coded message about the Underground Railroad. Slaves used biblical references to provide information to the slaves who wanted to escape such as the mode of transportation available and how to get to different places and other important details. Their masters thought that they were singing about God so the slaves were able to relay the information right under their noses.

The Vicksburg Campaign (side picture is the battle map) [[image:Picture_1.png width="118" height="91"]]
General Grant had won several victories around Vicksburg, Mississippi, the city that was considered essential to the plans of the Union to regain control of the Mississippi River. On May 22, General Grant began a siege of the city. After 6 long weeks, Confederate general John Pemberton sadly surrendered, as a result of the very bad treatment from the Union. When he surrendered, he gave up the city and 30,000 men. Shortly after, the Union captured Port Hudson, Louisiana. After they captured Port Hudson, that set the whole Mississippi River in the Union's hands. From then on, the Confederacy was split into two.



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Victory or Defeat
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Flag and Uniforms
Some people today are still holding on to the confederate ways and this is one way to keep the confederate alive. (uniforms)Early in the Civil war, the only uniforms the confederates had were the ones made by the women at home, the militia or by local tailors. The Confederate goverment didn't really think that it was important for every one to have legitimate uniforms up to 1862, before then they used something called the "commutation system" which, they wanted every one to use their own clothes and every one who did would get paid - It didn't work out that great so the goverment took over the formal uniform system.

"The normal Confederate troop uniform is pretty simple:

The typical uniform of the Confederate soldier was a forage or slouch hat, gray or butternut wool shell jacket, gray, butternut, or blue trousers, and brogans. A haversack was used to carry personal items. Confederate soldiers usually traveled lighter than their Union counterparts; instead of a knapsack, they typically carried their bedding rolled in their blanket and slung across one shoulder." ([])



(Ooookay now flags)

Well there were actualy several flags-only with different meanings which kinda made things confusing.

The most comonly known confederate flag consists of a red back round, blue "x" across the whole thing, and little stars on the inside of the "x" : Which is really just the battle flag. The first couple of flags they made up were alot like the American flag with the whole sars and stripes ordeal, but then they changed it to something that looks like the South Carolina secession flag (That was ironically enough, made by the South Carolina congressman- William Porcher Miles)because they feared every one would be thinking that it was the union flag and as you can imagine was NOT an option. October 1861 the CSA had 11 states and also included Missouri so they had a total of 12 stars on the flag.To make it easier to make and to save cloth, they made it a sqaure. "The first 120 silk battle flags were issued in November 1861. They had 12 gold-painted stars on blue bars edged with white on fields of pink or rose. The exterior borders of the flags were yellow. The hoist edge of the silk flags was blue. Some officers did not care for the colors and were told by General Pierre Beauregard to "dye it red sir; dye it with your blood!" There were eight more variations of this famous square battle flag before the end of the war, with the latter variants all the deep red color that we now identify with the flag."

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Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis wfile:///Network/Servers/thom-stu-xsvr.mesquiteisd.org/Volumes/Data/stuhome/5f24/Desktop/Picture%2022.pngas born in 1809 in present-day Todd County,Kentucky. He was a Southern plantation owner in the South. He served as United States Senator from Mississippi. He was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War. When the president of the Union,Abraham Lincoln, cut off Northern food supply, Davis ordered Beauregard to surrender if Anderson would not cooperate to attach. After Lincoln asked for 75,000 men. Davis knew he had an invasion in plan on, Virginia's secession, Davis moved to it's capital, Richmond. When General Robert E. Lee asked to invade Pennsylvania Davis said yes.He was elected the president of the CSA in 1862. He wrote a book about the Confederate government called The Rise and Fall of he Confederate Government in 1881. He died in 1880.//

Robert E. Lee
(Info from Social Studies Book ;and Black Blue and Gray)

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Robert Edward Lee was born in Sratford,Virginia in 1807. He fought in the Mexican War. When his home state of Virginia was inducted into the Southern states into the Confederacy, he refused Abraham Lincoln's plead to serve as commander to the Union Army. Even though he disapproved slavery, he fought for the Confederacy, since he didn't want to fight against his family, and didn't want to destroy his home state of Virginia. But at first, he hoped Virginia wouldn't even pick a side, because he didn't want to end up fighting. When he was making the decision about going to the Confederacy, his wife, Mary, said," He wept tears of blood." But he didn't go through the war alone, he had a trusty companion, his horse, Traveller. He rode Traveller during the Civil War. They got really attached to each other, but it had to come to an end when Robert E. Lee died. Traveller was so loyal, he walked right behind Lee's coffin at his funeral, and eventually when Traveller died, then he was buried near Robert E. Lee in Virginia.General Robert e. lee lead the southern army also known as the confederate army. Robert e. lee was a famous southern General. In1863 General Robert E.lee thought that if he won a battle that the union would surrender and call peace. Robert E. Lee asked Davis to invade Pennsylvania. Davis agreed. They lost that battle. Lee asked again. Davis also agreed to the 2nd invasion.

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
(Info from Stonewall Jackson by Lynda Pflueger)

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One day, a group of Union and Confederate soldiers met at a small stream called Bull Run. They fought, even though most of them were inexperienced, and didn't know how to fight. Some of the Confederate soldiers began to turn back, but Thomas Jackson told his men to stay there. Because he lined his men up like a stone wall, he became known as Stonewall Jackson. The former professor from Virginia Military Institute had a mind that thought strategy. At one battle, for protection he placed his artillery on a ridge that formed a crescent on top of a hill. Behind the ridge, a thick forest helped protect his soldiers. Stonewall and his soldiers waited many painful hours waiting for the battle to start. Jackson immobilized 60,000 Union soldiers and scared Washington into thinking it was under attack, so part of the Union army went to protect Washington, so STonewall and his men stole a large supply of badly needed arms and supplies. During that, Stonewall Jackson remarked, "He who does not see the hand of God in this is //blind//, sir,blind!"

Dread Scott
Dread Scott was an enslaved African American from Missouri Scots owner had takin him to Illinois, a free state and then takin to Wisconsin another free territory and then back to Missouri a slave state. Then Scots owner died. Scot went to court claiming he had lived in a free state. Scots case reached the United States Supreme Court. In 1857 the Supreme Court Sai d that Scot had no rights because African Americans were not citizens of the United States. Many African Americans were angry with the Courts decision.

Slave Master
(found in the Underground Railroad) Slave Masters often branded their slaves like cows and when their slave tried to run away and ended up getting caught their masters beat them and told them to get back to working in the fields. The slave masters also treated the slaves like dirt/nothing.​

The most common punshment for running was weights around thier necks. Most of the laves who got away escapedby the underground railroad.

**John Wilkes Booth**
John Wilkes Booth was the ninth of ten children. In the summer of 1864, Booth began planning to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. At Fords Theatre at ' 10 '0 clock he crossed the lobby and up the stairs to the mezzanine. Booth approached the door that led to the private boxes. Slipping into the dimly lit corridor, he shut the door and barred it from the inside. He saw Lincoln seating in a rocker against the glowing stage lights. He had closed the handle of his revoler as he stepped into the box. Leaving the pistol behind Lincoln's left ear and the assassin fired. 12 day later He got shat by Sergeant Boston Corbett and the Soldiers carried him to the grass and his last words were "Tell mother I die for my country and Kill me, Kill me.

Life During The War
A Woman’s Life During The Civil War

During the time of the war women were not recognized for their work outside of the house. The women cried as their husbands, fathers, and male children left for war. Some of the women dressed up as men to fight in the war. Woman worked on the plantations sometimes alongside slaves. They would raise children who weren’t fighting in the war. They protected their home from enemies while the men were gone. They did the men’s work and wrote letters to loved ones.

A Slave’s Life During The Civil War

During the time of the war some of the slaves left to fight in the Civil War in return for their freedom. Some of them stayed on the plantations. Sometimes when bored in camp, troops held lice races.

The Forming of the Confederacy
Seven states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas were included in the confederacy. They formed a new union called the Confederate States of America. The south gave 3 reasons for leaving the Union: 1. The Confederate States felt the United States thought they had broken the Constitution. 2. The Confederacy argued that the United States had failed to inforce Fugitive Slave Laws. 3. The government wouldn’t allow slavery in new territories.

Robert E. Lee Surrenders
On April 9,1865, after 4 years of the Civil War (which caused 630,000 deaths and over 1 million were injured ) Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army of North Virginia to lieutenant General Uysses S. Grant, at the home of Wilmer and Virginia Mclean in the town of Appomattox court house, VA. The meeting lasted about an hour and a half. The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia allowed the Federal Government to bring more pressure to bear in other parts of the south and would result in the surrender of the remaining field armies of the Confederacy over the next few months.

Vital Victories
video that I do NOT own (http://www.history.com/videos/first-battle-of-bull-run#first-battle-of-bull-run ) (I DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO WATCH ALL OF IT, SO WATCH WITH CAUTION, 'K?)

There were a lot of important, if not necessary battles and victories for the confederates but the most important one (so says wiki answers.com) was first bull run/first manassas. First bull run happened in July 21, 1861, some where close to Manassas, Virginia. The defeat was so bad in fact that it was almost funny.So this is what happened, the Union were marching and then they came across a river named Bull Run - when they did, they got confronted by Confederate soldiers. Mean while some citizens of Washington D.C ran over to watch the gore - Oddly enough when they said this on the history video I thought of wrestling *sigh* nothing new, neh? (still a draft, saving because my laptop's going dead) On April 27 Joseph Hooker led I think the union. To try to beat us the confederacy. April 30 And May 1 they are close to Chancellorsville. The III corps was ordered to join the via United States Ford. (just to let you no I don’t know what III means) Any ways bla bla just talking and talking now to the bloody stuff. The morning of May 2nd,Lt. Gen T.J Jackson told the corps what to do. Throughout the day jackson column reached the jump off point At 5:20 pm. even though the union got a head start the union still lost.

The Battle of Chancellorsville [[image:chancellorsville.jpg width="393" height="119"]]
(Info from @http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Battle_of_Chancellorsville ) The battle of Chancellorsville was one of the many important battles during the Civil War. It was fought from April 30 to May 6,1863, just near the village of Spotsylvania. It was called Robert E. Lee’s “perfect battle” because he used very risky but successful division of his army in the presence of a much larger force. General Lee’s audacity and Union Army General Joseph Hooker’s timid perform- ance during the battle combined to result of a significant Union defeat (yay). The Confederate victory was tempered by the mortal wo- unding of Stonewall Jackson (and if you don’t know who that is, scroll up) to a friendly fire, a loss that Robert E. Lee likened to “losing my right arm.” The Chancellorsville Campaign started whenever the Union army crossed the Rappahannock River on the morning of April 27, 1863. The most brutal fighting of the battle began on May 1 and didn’t end until the Union forces retreated across the river on the night of May 5-6.

The Battle of Chancellorsville
The Chancellorsville Battl was a major battle of the Ameican Civil War," They foght from April 30. Confderat Army of Northen Virgina. It was know as Lee's "perfect battle". They said because his tisky successful divin of his army the presence a much larger enemy force.Lee audacity and Hooker's performance in combat combined in resultsa significant union defeat.Federals Concentrated near chancellorsville it as on April 30'and May 1. Then a heavy fighting stated it was on May 1 and it did not end untll the Union forces retreated across the river on the nigt of May 5-6.

Victory or Defeat
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4183536647409380977# This video includes a lot of things where they go how they plan and even parts of the battle it made me laugh.

Swing low sweet chariot
Sweet Chariot was a coded message about the Underground Railroad. Slaves used contained bible references to provide information to the slaves who wanted to escape such as the mode of transportation available and how to get to different places and other important details. Their masters thought that they were singing about God so the slaves were able to relay the information right under their noses. I found this out from one of my College professors who was the grandson of a woman born a slave but was freed when she was 7.