cilvil war?

Question

could someone give me some info on the cilvil war? My internet is loading really slow and i need to look up 8-10 facts on it. It needs to be more then general info though so like some important people and why they were important and important place and why stuff like that.
thanks!

Answer 1

• More than three million men fought in the war.

• Two percent of the population—more than 620,000—died in it.

• In two days at Shiloh on the banks of the Tennessee River, more Americans fell than in all previous American wars combined.

• During the Battle of Antietam, 12,401 Union men were killed, missing or wounded; double the casualties of D-Day, 82 years later. With a total of 23,000 casualties on both sides, it was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.

• At Cold Harbor, Va., 7,000 Americans fell in 20 minutes.

• Senator John J. Crittendon of Kentucky had two sons who became major generals during the Civil War: one for the North, one for the South.

• Ulysses S. Grant was not fond of ceremonies or military music. He said he could only recognize two tunes. "One was Yankee Doodle," he grumbled. "The other one wasn’t."

• Missouri sent 39 regiments to fight in the siege of Vicksburg: 17 to the Confederacy and 22 to the Union.

• During the Battle of Antietam, Clara Barton tended the wounded so close to the fighting that a bullet went through her sleeve and killed a man she was treating.

• At the start of the war, the value of all manufactured goods produced in all the Confederate states added up to less than one-fourth of those produced in New York State alone.

• In March 1862, European powers watched in worried fascination as the Monitor and Merrimack battled off Hampton Roads, Va. From then on, after these ironclads opened fire, every other navy on earth was obsolete.

• In 1862, the U.S. Congress authorized the first paper currency, called "greenbacks."

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future chief Justice, was wounded three times during the Civil War: in the chest at Ball’s Bluff, in the back at Antietam and in the heel at Chancellorsville.

• Confederate Private Henry Stanley fought for the Sixth Arkansas, and was captured at Shiloh, but survived to go to Africa to find Dr. Livingston.

• George Pickett’s doomed infantry charge at Gettysburg was the first time he took his division into combat.

• On July 4, 1863, after 48 days of siege, Confederate General John C. Pemberton surrendered the city of Vicksburg to the Union’s General, Ulysses S. Grant. The Fourth of July was not be celebrated in Vicksburg for another 81 years.

• Disease was the chief killer during the war, taking two men for every one who died of battle wounds.

• North and South, potential recruits were offered awards, or "bounties," for enlisting, as much as $677 in New York. Bounty jumping soon became a profession, as men signed up, then deserted, to enlist again elsewhere. One man repeated the process 32 times before being caught.

• African Americans constituted less than one percent of the northern population, yet by the war’s end made up ten percent of the Union Army. A total of 180,000 black men, more than 85% of those eligible, enlisted.

• In November 1863, President Lincoln was invited to offer a "few appropriate remarks" at the opening of a new Union cemetery at Gettysburg. The main speaker, a celebrated orator from Massachusetts, spoke for nearly two hours. Lincoln offered just 269 words in his Gettysburg Address.

• Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest had 30 horses shot from under him and personally killed 31 men in hand-to-hand combat. "I was a horse ahead at the end," he said.

• The words "In God We Trust" first appeared on a U.S. coin in 1864.

• In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to Lieutenant General, a rank previously held by General George Washington, and led the 533,000 men of the Union Army, the largest in the world. Three years later, he was made President of the United States.

• Andersonville Prison in southwest Georgia held 33,000 prisoners in 1864. It was the fifth largest city in the Confederacy.

•By the end of the war, Unionists from every state except South Carolina had sent regiments to fight for the North.

• On November 9, 1863, President Lincoln attended a theater in Washington, D.C., to see "The Marble Heart." An accomplished actor, John Wilkes Booth, was in the cast.

• On March 4, 1865, Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term. Yards away in the crowd was John Wilkes Booth with a pistol in his pocket. His vantage point on the balcony, he said later, offered him "an excellent chance to kill the President, if I had wished."

• On May 13, 1865, a month after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Private John J. Williams of the 34th Indiana became the last man killed in the Civil War, in a battle at Palmito Ranch, Texas. The final skirmish was a Confederate victory.

• Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first black man ever elected to the U.S. Senate. He filled the seat last held by Jefferson Davis.

Answer 2

Chain of Command - Union:

President Abraham Lincoln
Secretary of War: Simon Cameron, Edwin M. Stanton
Secretary of the Navy: Gideon Welles
Quartermaster's Dept. - Montgomery C. Meigs
General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army: Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry Halleck, Ulysses S. Grant

Chain of Command - Confederate

President Jefferson Davis
Secretary of War: Leroy P. Walker, Judah P. Benjamin, George W. Randolph, Gustavus W. Smith, James A. Seddon, John C. Breckenridge
Secretary of the Navy: Stephen R. Mallory
Quartermaster General: Abram C. Myers, A.R. Lawton
Commander-in Chief: (Armies of the West) Albert Syndey Johnston, P.G.T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, John Bell Hood
(Armies of the East) Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee

Answer 3

properly the Civil conflict changed into fought between the forces of Parliament and the Crown and resulted contained in the execution of Charles I. OH! You propose THAT civil conflict! BE extra particular there have been many civil wars. no longer each and everything occurs contained in the U. S.! the tremendous large difference is that at the same time as the yank civil conflict had human beings combating proper from the starting up; in WWI the individuals did not difficulty to come back and help their allies till proper on the end at the same time as a great many extra had died than ought to have had they tipped the steadiness through helping their so-talked about as friends at the same time as they were initially mandatory.

Answer 4

Abraham Lincoln was president during the Civil War.

During the CIvil War, the CSS Hunley was the first submarine to sink a target. Of course, the concussion also ended up sinking the CSS Hunley.

Answer 5

First off, the Civil War was fought over Freedom of the South, not over that slavery crap. It was for the rights of the Southern Beliefs, just like the Revolutionary War with Britain. You can't always believe what you hear at school as a kid or stuff like that.

Answer 6

The north won. It is over.

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War