who where the main people in the war and what other info should i know about the civil war
2007-05-23 16:44:17 · 9 answers · asked by pjg898 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
North: Gens. Burnside, Hooker, Sherman, and Ulyesses S. Grant
President Abe Lincoln
South: Gens. Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee
President Jefferson Davis
The main conflict of the Civil War was States Rights- more commonly known as Slavery.
The South wanted the rights to own slaves due to their economy being based of plantations and agriculture.
The North's economy was based on industry which was just starting out and saw slavery as a wrong.
Neither could ever work things out.
The Civil War lasted almost the entire length of Lincoln's Presidency 1861-1865. Once he was sworn in, the SOuth begain to suceed from the Union with South Carolina being first when it attacked Fort Sumter.
The South actually was winning the War until 3 major events:
Grant and the North took New Orleans and Tennessee, The route of the Rebels at Gettysburg, and Sherman's march through Atlanta and up the Eastern Seaboard to cut off and destroy any and all supply lines of the South.
During this time Lincoln wrote up the Amancipation Proclaimation which did not "free" all the slaves at first (because not all slave states joined the Confederates), only freed those in the Rebel States, but in convinced many blacks to join the Northern Army- thus resupplying them.
Lee surrendered to Grant at Appromatax Va. and the war was over - although technically not for several years afterwhich there were some armies in Texas who refused the outcome& did not formally surrender.
Several days after the Lee surrendered, Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth, a noted Southern supporter.
2007-05-23 17:04:07 · answer #1 · answered by bobashep 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The main generals were Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, and Stonewall Jackson on the Confederate side.
On the Union side was George McClellan, William Sherman, and Ulysses Grant.
The Civil war started from disputes over state's rights, sectionalism, tariffs, and slavery.
Basic stuff off the top of my head.
2007-05-23 16:58:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I assume you are talking of the American Civil war...
Lincoln, Davis, Stonewall Jackson, Lee, Grant, Sherman, and about 15 million other Americans.
Just google US Civil War and you will get a huge amount. Watch Ken Burns Civil War and get a handle on it.
2007-05-23 16:58:37 · answer #3 · answered by Holden 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
at about 610,000 dead from wounds and disease, more Americans died in the Civil War than ALL our other wars COMBINED!
Add up the dead from the Revolution, 1812, Mexican, Spanish WW! WW2 Korea Vietnam Gulf 1 and 2.....its still not the total of four years when , without airplanes or napalm or exploding shells or tanks or machine guns, just muscle powered swords and bayonets and muzzle loading rifles, white men killed white men so the Union would be preserved and black men could be free....
and cheeseheadwith attitude: my great great uncle was Joshua Chamberlain of the 20th Maine, holding the Union left about a mile away from Pickett's charge over that uphill open ground without a scrap of cover......I like to think both their ghosts have some comfort that we their blood can find nothing more important to argue about today than whether Farve or Brady or McNabb is the better quarterback....
2007-05-24 03:57:38 · answer #4 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
William T. Sherman,
Ulysses S. Grant,
* Lewis A. Armistead
* John Bell Hood, Sam Hood
* Robert E. Lee, p
* James Longstreet,
* John Hunt Morgan
* John Hunt Morgan
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* James Johnston Pettigrew
* George E. Pickett
* Robert Anderson
* Don Carlos Buell
* Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
* George A. Custer
* Joseph Hooker
* Rufus Ingalls
* John A. Logan
* George B. McClellan
* George G. Meade
* William H. Powell
* John A. Rawlins
* John F. Reynolds
* William S. Rosecrans
* William T. Sherman,
* Dan Sickles,
* George H. Thomas
* George H. Thomas, Redman
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2007-05-25 03:44:45 · answer #5 · answered by suro25 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Union:
US Grant
Mead
Hancock
Reynolds
McClellan
Rosecrans
Burnside
Pope
O. Howard (the "hapless")
Sherman
Sheridan
Confederate
RE Lee
Longstreet
TJ Jackson
Ewell
Early
Hood
AP Hill
Joe Johnston
Beaurgard
Jeb Stuart
Pickett
Nathan Bedford Forrest
2007-05-23 18:33:37 · answer #6 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my great, great, great uncle was Gen George Edward Pickett, led Picketts Charge at Gettysburg, lost more than 2/3 of his troops, they charged knowing they were low on ammuntion and rations, but they did it anyway and really got hit hard
2007-05-23 16:54:21 · answer #7 · answered by cheesehead with an attitude 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
geneal William hidden
2014-10-20 03:55:46 · answer #8 · answered by richard 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
grant, rober e lee, stonewall jackson. do a google.
2007-05-23 16:52:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋