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Civil War advanced quiz
Careful with this one. I got the correct answer for # 1, and the quiz master marked me wrong. Even my total stated one score and the quiz master takes away ten points from my total.
I do not look up the answers before I mark my answer. As a former US History teacher I take pride in answering from memory, or lack of it. The quiz master does find some very interesting questions for us.
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Not sure were your stats come from but I would like to examine the source as the stats I have are apparently in conflict with them. The stats I have are as follows:
#1 Battle of Gettysburg Date: July 1-3, 1863 Location: Pennsylvania Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee Union Commander: George G. Meade Confederate Forces Engaged: 75,000 Union Forces Engaged: 82,289 Winner: Union Casualties: 51,112 (23,049 Union and 28,063 Confederate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #2 Battle of Chickamauga Date: September 19-20, 1863 Location: Georgia Confederate Commander: Braxton Bragg Union Commander: William Rosecrans Confederate Forces Engaged: 66,326 Union Forces Engaged: 58,222 Winner: Confederacy Casualties: 34,624 (16,170 Union and 18,454 Confederate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #3 Battle of Chancellorsville Date: May 1-4, 1863 Location: Virginia Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee Union Commander: Joseph Hooker Confederate Forces Engaged: 60,892 Union Forces Engaged: 133,868 Winner: Confederacy Casualties: 30,099 (17,278 Union and 12,821 Confederate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #4 Battle of Spotsylvania Date: May 8-19, 1864 Location: Virginia Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant Confederate Forces Engaged: 50,000 Union Forces Engaged: 83,000 Winner: Confederacy Casualties: 27,399 (18,399 Union and 9,000 Confederate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #5 Battle of Antietam Date: September 17, 1862 Location: Maryland Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee Union Commander: George B. McClellan Confederate Forces Engaged: 51,844 Union Forces Engaged: 75,316 Winner: Inconclusive Casualties: 26,134 (12,410 Union and 13,724 Confederate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #6 Battle of The Wilderness Date: May 5-7, 1864 Location: Virginia Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant Confederate Forces Engaged: 61,025 Union Forces Engaged: 101,895 Winner: Inconclusive Casualties: 25,416 (17,666 Union and 7,750 Confederate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #7 Battle of Second Manassas Date: August 29-30, 1862 Location: Virginia Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee Union Commander: John Pope Confederate Forces Engaged: 48,527 Union Forces Engaged: 75,696 Winner: Confederacy Casualties: 25,251 (16,054 Union and 9,197 Confederate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #8 Battle of Stone's River Date: December 31, 1862 Location: Tennessee Confederate Commander: Braxton Bragg Union Commander: William S. Rosecrans Confederate Forces Engaged: 37,739 Union Forces Engaged: 41,400 Winner: Union Casualties: 24,645 (12,906 Union and 11,739 Confederate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #9 Battle of Shiloh Date: April 6-7, 1862 Location: Tennessee Confederate Commander: Albert Sidney Johnston/ P. G. T. Beauregard Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant Confederate Forces Engaged: 40,335 Union Forces Engaged: 62,682 Winner: Union Casualties: 23,741 (13,047 Union and 10,694 Confederate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #10 Battle of Fort Donelson Date: February 13-16, 1862 Location: Tennessee Confederate Commander: John B. Floyd/Simon B. Buckner Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant Confederate Forces Engaged: 21,000 Union Forces Engaged: 27,000 Winner: Union Casualties: 19,455 (2,832 Union and 16,623 Confederate) |
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Just got another email on this and looked into it further. The question had a typo in it. Although it said the answer was incorrect it was indeed correct and proper credit was issued. I apologize for the confusion and appreciate you pointing this out to me.
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Just out of curiosity, who posted Sharpsburg as a Union victory? All my life I have studied the Civil War. Antietam was always considered a draw. On the evening of the 17th, the Confederate left was bending under pressure from Burnside. The Georgians in he rifle Pits gave way. Then Kemper's men started to bend. Shortly thereafter, A.P. Hill arrived and with the assistance of the rest of the Confederate left shoved the Union forces back.
So how is it a Union victory if the Confederacy forced the Union back at the close of the day, then the next day left of their own volition? Both armies were practically in the same place they were at the start of the day. Bill
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If McClellan had not been incompetent ( some say under secret orders to keep the war going until slavery could be worked back into the saving of the union as the emancipation proclamation had just been issued after sitting for some time waiting for a union victory to make it easier to swallow ) he would have crushed Lee's army right there. It would have effectively been the end of the war as the western front mattered little in comparison and could have been wrapped up by the Army of the Potomac rather quickly had they been free to do so. As is was, McClellan sat back after Sharpsburg saying his troops needed the rest. He is probably (in my opinion) one of the slowest, least effective generals in the history of armed conflict unless you buy the before mentioned theory he was under secret orders and thus was doing his job rather well. He never decisively crushed the enemy after any engagement and his correspondence was only half intelligible and bordered on treason over 50% of the time. When Lincoln went to view the battle field after Sharpsburg he was quoted as saying the Army of the Potomac was McClellan's private body guard and nothing more and this played into the delay of the long expected but shortly coming relief of McClellan as the commander of that army. I honestly do not see how anyone could view Sharpsburg as a confederate victory. Lee's men fought well and had superior strategy but they were no match for the union forces gathered to crush them. The numbers engaged listed above do not paint an accurate picture as the confederates were sorely outnumbered until late in the battle. In fact Lee himself stated in correspondence after the battle he knew staying was going to be suicide but decided to make his stand regardless.
Interesting note, after McClellan was relieved it took a few days for Lee to realize what had happened and when he did get word of it he said it was too bad because he understood McClellan and worried the union might keep trying generals until they found one he could not understand |
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David, there is no question that it was not a Confederate victory either. It is a stalemate period. When you look at the battle there are two telling points that you must consider. 1) McClellan's idiotic strategy of attacking piece meal first by the Dunker Church, then in the center then at the lower bridge did not allow his force to congregate and defeat Lee by driving a wedge through the center and turning the flanks of the Confederate lines.
The other point is that while numerically, the casualties were not much different, the percentage of Confederate casualties was really high due to one thing. Each place that McClellan attacked piecemeal, he attacked with a formidable force. Lee was forced to pull reinforcements from other areas of the field for each phase of the Union attack. It wasn't as if the rebs who fended off the first attack got to rest the remainder of the day, they were shifted down line to help beat back another threat. Consequently, a soldier who should have seen fierce fighting only once during the battle, saw it three times to parry each thrust, thereby increasing his chance to die for his country. I have one word for the battle:STALEMATE Bill
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Not to mention McClellan had reserves that never even saw battle that day and Lee was comming close to being out of ammunition. Yes I can see your point of view, I just lean toward it having been a (unrealized) union victory. In light of the good points you make I changed the above post to read "Inconclusive" in regards to that battle.
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Thank you,
One of the Regiments that he held in reserve was the 17th New York Infantry. Several companies had men from my area in it. They were by the middle bridge. One of the reasons why they were in reserve was because they got shot up very badly at 2nd Manassas. The 17th NYV lost over 200 men as they charged toward Jackson's troops at the RR cut. So they caught a break at Antietam. Bill
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