Battle of Chancellorsville

Union: 13000 troops, General Joseph Hooker
Confederacy: 60000 troops, General Stonewall Jackson, General Robert E. Lee
The Confederacy won the battle despite having the odds against them. Lee split his forces in 2 to flank the union troops. Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own men as he was returning to camp and he died from pneumonia.

Second Battle of Bull Run Study Guide

IM SO SORRY FOR THE LATE POST. D: SO IF YOU STILL NEED THIS... Date of Battle: August 28- August 30, 1862 Location: Prince William County, Virginia Commanders: -Union- MAJOR GENERAL JOHN POPE -Confederacy- General Robert E. Lee, General Thomas J. Jackson, LIEUTENANT JAMES LONGSTREET Strategy: -Union- They were split up. Pope wanted to protect Shenandoah Valley and draw Confederate forces away from his other fellow General McClellan's army. The Union wanted to attack the Confederacy back after being trapped by jackson's army. -Confederacy- Jackson destroyed Union communication systems. They saw that the split of the Union armies was a weakness and wanted to attack Pope's army. However, the Union eventually links back together and the plan is foiled and outnumbered so back up is needed to be brought in. Longstreets regiment is on the battlefield and takes out the Union from the left side. It is a surprise attack. Casualties for Union: Deaths-1724 Wounded-8372 Missing-5598 Total-6054 Casualties for Confederacy: Deaths-1481 Wounded-7627 Missing-89 Total-9197 Outcome: CONFEDERACY WINS

Battle of Shiloh

Sorry about the late post, but here it is!

BACKGROUND
- Dates: April 6, 1862 - April 7, 1862

GENERALS
- Confederates: General Albert S. Johnston (dies)... later P.G.T Beauregard
- Union: General Ulysses S. Grant, General Don Carlos Buell

OBJECTIVES
- Union forces await for reinforcements by General Don Carlos Buell
- Confederates seek to attack the small Union army

FIRST DAY
- Confederates ambush Union at Shiloh Church
- Union is surprised, fights back, but loses on the first day.  Falls back
- Confederate General Albert S. Johnston dies; P.G.T. Beauregard takes over the Confederate army

SECOND DAY
- Union attacks the Confederates
- Reinforcements led by General Don Carlos Buell come in time, causing the Confederates to flee.

RESULTS
- Union wins the battle
- Although the Union won, they lost more soldiers than the Confederacy.

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Study Guide: First Battle of Bull Run

July 21, 1861; Manassas, Virginia.

The terrain was grassy and flat with semi-hills. The weather was very hot
and the heat was high. Included light rain.

Union General: General Irvin McDowell
Confederacy General: General Joseph E. Johnston and General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (P.G.T. Beauregard)

The Union attacked first, hoping that the Confederacy would be easy to take down. The Union hoped to accomplish more invasions toward Confederacy land and an army with more people. The Confederacy felt the battle would be easy too so they hoped to take down the Union. Both sides thought that the war would be quick, but that all changed after this battle.

About 4700 total casualties
Union: about 2950 casualties, 1124 wounded, 1312 captured/missing, 460 killed
Confederacy: about 1750 casualties, 1582 wounded, 13 missing, 387 killed.

This was the first major land battle in the armies of Virginia.

Advantages and Disadvantages for both sides of the battle:
The Confederacy
Advantages:They were prepared and didn’t have to waste much energy by charging due to their spies.
Disadvantages:The South had a much less soldiers than the Union did
The Union
Advantages: Union had a lot more soldiers, resulting in more manpower.
Disadvantages: soldiers were mostly untrained, they had experienced hardships on their way and lost a lot of energy, and their position in land was much worse than the South’s.

Battle of Antietam Study Guide

When: September 17, 1862

Where: Sharpsburg, Maryland

Significance: Bloodiest one-day battle in American History; Emancipation Proclamation occured after

Outcome: North won because South's invasion failed

Confederacy's Goal: move North, obtain supplies, cut railroad links to Washington D.C., maybe even get support from Britain and France

Union's Goal: keep land and defend

Confederacy's Generals: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, James Longstreet

Union's Generals: Ambrose Burnside, James Hooker

Battle of New Orleans

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Study Guide For Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack

WHERE: Chesapeake bay and Charleston harbor

WHEN: March 8-9, 1862

CAPTAINS:
      -Union: Lieutenant John worden
      -Confederacy: Captain Franklin buchanan, lieutenant Catsby R. Jones

TROOP STRENGTH:
      -Union: five wooden warships and monitor
      -Confederacy: 2 wooden warships, a gun boat, 2 tenders, and merrimack

AIM:
      -Union: protect blockade
      -confederacy: break blockade that was stopping virginia's largest cities from international trade

OUTCOME: stalemate

Study Guide for the Battle of Atlanta

Commanders
- Union: William T. Sherman, James B. McPherson, and John A. Logan
- Confederacy: John B. Hood (plus Joseph E. Johnston who was replaced by Hood by being too defensive)

Objectives
- Union: Weaken the South by capturing its railroads, medical centers, and factories [Atlanta was known for its railroads (transportation) and manufacturing (supplies)]
- Confederacy: Protect Atlanta by forcing the Union's campaign north

Strategies
Flanking- a maneuver in which the one force would attack the sides of the opposing force (if successful, the enemy will be surrounded)
- Union: being notified of the Hood misconception of abandoning his defenses, Sherman decided to send McPherson, as well as Dodge's corpse, to advance in tearing up railroad tracks.
- Confederacy: Hood turned to a more offensive approach which was to attack McPherson. He devised a plan to  have a suspended attack until McPherson's army, the army of the Tennessee, was disarranged at the left side where the railroad would be. He would then situate one corpse between Thomas (Union) and Atlanta and have the rest proceed the flanking maneuver.

Advantages/Disadvantages
Union: better generals, less men
Confederacy: behind schedule, home-field advantage

Casualties: the Confederacy had more

Outcome:
- The Union wins
- guarantees Lincoln's re-election
- succeeded in damaging railroads and cutting down supplies in the South

Re: What If?...

If the Confederacy had won at the Battle of Gettysburg, I do not think that would have changed the outcome of the war. The Battle of Gettysburg will only be known as another major victory for the Confederacy, such as the First Battle of Bull Run or Chancellorsville. The Union would react to this as another loss. The result would only benefit the Union, since they were better prepared if the war lasted longer.

If foreign countries were going to join the Confederacy's fight for freedom, they would have already done so early into the war. However, since Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, the war was fought on the issue of slavery. Because of this, the foreigner's did not want to side with them. They had abolished slavery a long time ago and were against it. Another victory for the Confederacy would mean nothing for them.

Lincoln had already had the whole war thought through and was not about to forfeit. If he did, this would mean that half the country was gone and other states might secede.