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confederate soldier fire on union troops in fort sumter.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
Union General had an army of 100,000 troops on May 7, 1864 as he prepared for his drive to capture Atlanta, Georgia.
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On May 3, 1862, Confederate forces evacuate Yorktown before Union troops overwhelm them. They have delayed McClellan's advance to Richmond by one month. On May 4, Union troops enter the vacated town.
The hesitation of Maj. Gen. George Brinton McClellan
In the Battle of Galveston of 1862, 400 Union troops had surrendered to the Confederate forces and were captured, as well as one gunboat being captured and another destroyed. However, 26 Confederate forces had been killed and 117 wounded. It is generally seen that the Confederate forces won the Battle of Galveston in 1862.
The hesitation of Maj. Gen. George Brinton McClellan
Because it enabled Union troops to liberate the Mississippi, so ending the war in the West. It enabled them to go to the aid of the Army of the Cumberland in Chattanooga.
During the American Civil War, Union forces sought in 1862 and 1863 to capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Located on high bluffs astride the Mississippi River, Vicksburg was a highly defensible fortress, and its capture proved difficult for the Union troops. Finally in 1863, Vicksburg surrendered after a siege starved them out.
There were no prize hostages. The key battle was Vicksburg, when Grant paroled 30,000 Confederate prisoners.