https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2 en-us 2021-01-11 20:56:02 UTC 2024-10-14 10:06:53 UTC hello@padlet.com 510403 https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2/wish/1077648644 -Robert E. Lee was to be considered one of the greatest leading generals of the Confederacy. Lee was to contribute in successfully winning Confederate victories through many battles against the Union during the American Civil War. In 1862, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was to place Robert as his principal military advisor, which years later, Lee left out to fight in the battlefield. Robert E. Lee was to participate in many great battles such as the: Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of the Wilderness, Battle of Gettysburg, and many more. Thanks to his quick mind and great tactics, Robert E. Lee was to have many victorious battles such as the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 29th-30th, 1862. Eventually, once near towards the collapse of the Confederacy by 1865, outnumbered and trapped, Robert E. Lee decided to surrender the rest of his remaining Confederate forces to Ulysses S. Grant in a small town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9th, 1865. Overall, Robert E. Lee was to be a significant figure in history as he was to become a clever and great general serving the Confederacy, leading towards many victories against the Union until he was to honorably surrender his remaining forces to the Union, ceasing any more unnecessary blood to be split.
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*American History Textbook]]> 2021-01-12 09:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2/wish/1077648644 510403 https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2/wish/1077649618 -William Sherman was to be general serving under the Union Army during the American Civil War. Sherman was to contribute in being successful in destroying the remaining Confederate forces down farther south through the use of destructive tactics. William was to aid Grant by leading one of his great offensives, the western army of 90,000 men in 1864, from Georgia to east towards Atlanta. William Sherman was to be very destructive throughout his campaign as he was to embark on the "March to the Sea" in 1864-1865 across Georgia, plundering and burning all that stood in his way. Sherman successfully captured Savannah, which surrendered two days later under siege, which William presented as a Christmas gift to Abraham Lincoln. Eventually Sherman was to find clashes against the Confederate forces led by Joseph E. Johnston through the Battle of Kennesaw, which resulted in a Confederate victory. Nonetheless, William Sherman resumed his destructive march which eventually after the events of Robert E. Lee's surrender to Grant, Johnston soon surrendered his forces to Sherman on April 18th, 1865. Overall, William Sherman was to be a significant figure during the Civil War as he was to be a great contributor towards the victory of the Union against the Confederacy by successfully accomplishing one of Grant's great offensives through the usage of destructive force.
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*American History Textbook]]> 2021-01-12 09:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2/wish/1077649618 510403 https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2/wish/1077650735 -Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was to be a general serving under the Confederate army during the American Civil War. During the war, Jackson first appeared in leading a campaign with his Confederate forces, staging a rapid march north through the Shenandoah Valley during 1862. He wanted to trick the Union as he wanted to appear he was to cross the Potomac to attack Washington, which he did not. Later, from May 4th-June 9th, 1862, Stonewall Jackson was to be successful in defeating two separate Union forces and slipped away before McDowell was able to catch him known as the Valley Campaign. Jackson was to then participate in the Battle of the Seven Days on June 25th-July 1st, 1862, as Lee was to call him from the Shenandoah Valley to combine forces to fight against McClellan forces. Stonewall further aided Robert E. Lee during the Battle of Antietam by reinforcing his lines from Harpers Ferry in 1862. Eventually, Stonewall Jackson was to lastly help Robert during the Battle of Chancellorsville, which resulted in a Confederate victory in 1863. Nonetheless, Jackson was to sustain a wound from the battle and later died from pneumonia in May 10, 1863. In the end, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was to be a significant figure in history as he was to contribute in leading the Confederate army, becoming a great general by racking up Confederate victories and being a great aid for Robert E. Lee.
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*https://www.vmi.edu/archives/stonewall-jackson-resources/stonewall-jackson-death-and-funeral/]]> 2021-01-12 09:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2/wish/1077650735 510403 https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2/wish/1077653367 -The Battle of Chancellorsville was to be one of many battles which occurred during the American Civil War. Nonetheless, the Battle of Chancellorsville is to be considered Robert E. Lee's most outstanding tactical victory as the Confederate forces were to be victorious. Starting on April 30th and lasted until May 6th of 1863, Lee came into conflict with Union forces twice the size of his own men led by Union General Joseph Hooker in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Robert E. Lee was to split his forces in two, which with his quick-thinking, outwitted Hooker's forces through a barrage of surprise attacks, leading to Hooker to retreat. Lee was to have lost 12,826 but Hooker managed to have lost 17, 278 men. Nonetheless, at a grand victory did come at a cost as Stonewall Jackson was to be leading one of Lee's forces where he was to have been shot and wounded, leading towards his death of pneumonia on May 10, 1863. Overall, the Battle of Chancellorsville is to be a significant conflict in history as it was to lead to a huge Confederate victory due to Lee's great tactics by defeating one of the Union's largest forces, outnumbered two to one, as well as the contributor towards Stonewall Jackson's sad demise.
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*https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-chancellorsville]]> 2021-01-12 09:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2/wish/1077653367 510403 https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2/wish/1077657841 -The Fifteenth Amendment is to be a significant document as the amendment is to declare that African Americans are to have the right to vote. On February 25th of 1869, the House of Representatives were to approve the Fifteenth Amendment. Eventually, the amendment was to be ratified on February 3rd, 1870. The amendment was to forbid the states and the federal government to deny suffrage to any citizen on account of their: race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This was to specifically revolve in clearly providing African Americans the ability and right to vote, which paved the way towards more citizen rights and equality. Overall, the Fifteenth Amendment is to be important in history as the document is to express that all citizens of the United States are to have the right to vote, no matter your differences.
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*American History Textbook]]> 2021-01-12 09:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2/wish/1077657841 510403 https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2/wish/1077665453 -Andersonville was to be the Confederate's largest and most notorious military prison in the South. Andersonville was to hold a prison located in Georgia, officially named Camp Sumter, where its primary function was to hold captured Union soldiers during the American Civil War. The prison was to begin to serve the Confederacy from February 1864 to the very end of the war in April 1865. Known for its very unhealthy conditions and high death rates upon the prison, a total of 13,000 Union soldiers have lost their lives at the military prison. The commander of the prison was to be Captain Henry Wirz, who was to be tried, convicted, and eventually executed due to war crimes, his last words being, "I know what orders are, Major. I am being hanged for obeying them." Overall, Andersonville was to be the area where the South's largest and most notorious military camp was being held, known for the unhealthy conditions and horrible treatment against the Union prisoners during the American Civil War.
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*https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/andersonville]]> 2021-01-12 09:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/510403/so4j2meo40l7krj2/wish/1077665453