The Civil War. Civil War Facts. Location. Eastern Theater, Western Theater, Trans- Mississippi, Gulf Coast, Sioux Uprising. Dates. 18. 61- 1. Soldiers Engaged. Union: over 2,1. 00,0. Confederate: over 1,0.
Facts, Events & Information about The American Civil War: 1861-1865 First Battle of Bull Run Kurz & Allison Civil War Facts Location Eastern Theater, Western Theater.
Civil War Casualties. Union: over 3. 50,0. Confederate: over 2. See Details Of Civil War Casualties. Outcome. Union Victory. Civil War Pictures. The Civil War was the first war that was widely photographed.
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With the defeat of the Southern Confederacy and the subsequent passage of the XIII, XIV, and XV amendments to the Constitution, the Civil War’s lasting effects include abolishing the institution of slavery in America and firmly redefining the United States as a single, indivisible nation rather than a loosely bound collection of independent states. Milestones. It was a war that saw many “firsts” that included America’s first income tax, the first battle between ironclad ships, the first extensive use of black soldiers and sailors in U.
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S. There were advances in medical treatment, military tactics, and the chaplain service. Over the course of the Civil War weapons ranged from obsolete flintlocks to state- of- the- art repeaters.
During the Civil War, women took on new roles, including running farms and plantations and spying; some disguised themselves as men and fought in battle. All of the nation’s ethnic groups participated in the war, including Irish, Germans, American Indians, Jews, Chinese, Hispanics, etc. Other Names for the Civil War. Northerners have also called the Civil War the War to Preserve the Union, the War of the Rebellion (War of the Southern Rebellion), and the War to Make Men Free. Southerners may refer to it as the War Between the States or the War of Northern Aggression. In the decades following the conflict, those who did not wish to upset adherents of either side simply called it The Late Unpleasantness.
It is also known as Mr. Lincoln’s War and, less commonly, as Mr. Davis’ War. Troop Strength and Casualties. Between April 1. 86.
April 1. 86. 5, an estimated 1. Union and approximately 1. Confederate service. An estimated total of 7. More than twice that number were wounded but survived at least long enough to muster out.
Casualties of the Civil War cannot be calculated exactly, due to missing records (especially on the Southern side) and the inability to determine exactly how many combatants died from wounds, drug addiction, or other war- related causes after leaving the service. An untold number of civilians also perished, primarily from disease as entire towns became hospitals. Naval Battles. Most naval actions occurred on rivers and inlets or in harbors, and include history’s first clash between two ironclads, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (a captured and converted ship formerly called the Merrimac), at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 9, 1. Other actions include the Battle of Memphis (1. Charleston Harbor (1. Mobile Bay (1. 86. Vicksburg in 1. 86.
The most famous clash between ocean- going warships was the duel between USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France, June 1. Throughout the war, the Union had a decided advantage in both numbers and quality of naval vessels. The War Between The States Begins. On April 1. 0, 1. North to the federal garrison at Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, provisional Confederate forces in the city demanded the fort’s surrender.
The fort’s commander, Major Robert Anderson, refused. On April 1. 2 the Confederates opened fire with cannon. At 2: 3. 0 p. m. Many graduates of the U. S. Army’s military academy, West Point, resigned their commissions in order to fight for the South—this was especially true in the cavalry arm, but no members of the artillery “went South.” The Lincoln Administration had to rely on large numbers of volunteers from the states and territories.
In Richmond, Virginia, the President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, faced a similar problem in raising and equipping armies. Neither side expected a war of long duration.
Volunteers were asked to serve for 9. Southerners thought Northerners too weak and cowardly to fight.
Northerners thought a dependence upon slave labor had rendered Southerners too weak both physically and morally to present a serious battlefield threat. Both sides were due for a rude awakening. The Challenges of North and South. To win the war would require Lincoln’s armies and navy to subdue an area from the East Coast to the Rio Grande, from the Mason- Dixon Line to the Gulf of Mexico. To prevent a Northern victory, the South would have to defend that same large area, but with a smaller population and less industry than the North could ultimately bring to bear.
A short war would favor the South, a long one the North. Theaters of War. Actions in the war were divided into the Eastern Theater, primarily comprised of Washington, D. C., Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the coast of North Carolina. The Atlantic Coast farther south was the Lower Seaboard Theater.
The Western Theater began west of the Alleghenies (West Virginia excepted) and continued to the Mississippi River, but it also included the interior of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Events farther west are considered to have occurred in the Trans- Mississippi Theater and the Far West. The first inland clash between significant bodies of troops occurred on the morning of June 3, 1. Union volunteers surprised 8. Confederates at Philippi in (West) Virginia. Lasting less than half an hour, the affair would barely qualify as a skirmish later in the war, but the Union victory there and subsequent ones in the region elevated the reputation of Major General George B.
Mc. Clellan, commander of the Department of the Ohio. The first real battle took place July 2.
Bull Run creek outside Manassas, Virginia, a railroad junction some 3. Northern capital at Washington City (Washington, D. C.) and about 9. 0 miles north of the Confederate capital at Richmond on July.
It is known as the First Battle of Bull Run (Northern name) or the First Battle of Manassas (Southern name). During the war, the North named battles for the nearest body of water, and the South used the name of the nearest town. The Union army made progress early in the battle, but Confederate reinforcements arrived late in the day from the Shenandoah Valley and routed the Federals. The unfortunate Union commander, Irvin Mc. Dowell, was made the scapegoat and was replaced with an officer who had some victories to his credit: Mc. Clellan. On September 1.
Union victory at Carnifax Ferry in the Big Kanawha Valley of (West) Virginia virtually ended Confederate control in most of the western counties, although there would be raids and guerrilla warfare there. A successful naval invasion of North Carolina took place in August.
The Western Theater saw only minor skirmishing. Kentucky was attempting to remain neutral and had vowed to take sides against whichever side first moved troops into it.
That was the Confederacy, which felt compelled to establish Mississippi River forts and establish camps within the state to repel any attempted Union move south.
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In addition, it saw the release of many new intellectual properties, including Dying Light, Evolve, Life Is Strange, Bloodborne, Until Dawn and Splatoon, and indie titles such as Her Story, Ori and the Blind Forest, Rocket League, and Undertale. Many awards went to games such as Bloodborne, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Fallout 4, Rocket League, Ori and the Blind Forest and Rise of the Tomb Raider. All sales of video games in 2. Super. Data, an 8% increase from 2.
Of this, the largest sector was in computer game sales and subscription services, accounting for $3. Mobile gaming revenues were at $2. Digital sales on consoles made up the remaining $4 billion. Of this, the total software market was $1. The total contribution to the US's gross national product from the industry was $1. The largest segments were in digital software (. Best Mobile/Handheld, Excellence in Audio) or two awards (e.
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