Why do some civil war battles have 2 names?

Question

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Answer 1

Hey Mike,

Your first answer is one that makes sense, another is that some battles started one place and as one side retreated, the other followed, so the battle occurs in multiple locations (i.e. Lexington and Concord at the start of the American Revolution was like that). So, the first name is where it started, and the second name is where the battle finished.

Answer 2

The Union will name the battles from nearby Rivers and other bodies of water. The Confederacy called the battles by nearby towns

The First Battle Union= Bull Run River= The First Battle of Bull Run
South=Manasas Town= The first battle of Manasas

Answer 3

Because the North gave the battle one name and the South gave the battle another name.

Answer 4

So many battlefields of the Civil War bear double names that we cannot believe the duplication has been accidental. It is the unusual which impresses. The troops of the North came mainly from cities, towns, and villages, and were, therefore, impressed by some natural object near the scene of the conflict and named the battle from it. The soldiers from the South were chiefly from the country and were, therefore, impressed by some artificial object near the field of action. In one section the naming has been after the handiwork of God; in the other section it has been after the handiwork of man. Thus, the first passage of arms is called the battle of Bull Run at the North,---the name of a little stream. At the South it takes the name of Manassas, from a railroad station. The second battle on the same ground is called the Second Bull Run by the North, and the Second Manassas by the South. Stone's defeat is the battle of Ball's Bluff With the Federals, and the battle of Leesburg with the Confederates. The battle called by General Grant, Pittsburg Landing, a natural object, was named Shiloh, after a church, by his antagonist. Rosecrans called his first great fight with Bragg, the battle of Stone River, while Bragg named it after Murfreesboro, a village. So McClellan's battle of the Chickahominy, a little river, was with Lee the battle of Cold Harbor, a tavern. The Federals speak of the battle of Pea Ridge, of the Ozark range of mountains, and the Confederates call it after Elk Horn, a country inn. The Union soldiers called the bloody battle three days after South Mountain from the little stream, Antietam, and the Southern troops named it after the village of Sharpsburg. Many instances might be given of this double naming by the opposing forces. According to the same law of the unusual, the war-songs of a people have generally been written s. The bards who followed the banners of the feudal lords, sang of their exploits, and stimulated them and their retainers to deeds of high emprise, wore no armor and carried no swords. So, too, the impassioned orators, who roused our ancestors in 1776 with the thrilling cry, "Liberty or Death," never once put themselves in the way of a death by lead or steel, by musket-ball or bayonet stab. The noisy speakers of 1861, who fired the Northern heart and who fired the Southern heart, never did any other kind of firing.

Answer 5

Well the Union probably had a name for a battle and the Confederacy had a different name for the same battle.

Answer 6

North named the places one thing and the South named it another. Remember in the North we talk about the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack. There was no Merrimack. It was the CSS Virgina. The Merrimack was the ship they iron-plated to make the Virgina.

Answer 7

the north and the south often called them by different names, sometimes using different nearby localities or names for those localities as the name for the battle.

Answer 8

By and large, where there was a difference, the Union named battles after rivers, as they did their armies, while the Confederacy named them after places, as they did their armies. IE, Bull Run/Manassas, Stones River/Murfreesboro, Antietam/Sharpsburg.

Answer 9

a million. conflict of citadel Sumter. Winner: the cannon that blew up. 2. conflict of Gettysburg. Winner: Abe Lincoln, Vampire Hunter., 3. conflict of the Bulge. Winner: William Howard Taft. wish this facilitates. or you would possibly want to haul your sorry b*tt all the way down to the library and browse a real e book.

Answer 10

Northern aggression my patoot...who shot first? The first answer is correct.