Important Event
Battle of Gettysburg (July 1, 1863-July 3, 1863) As the bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil, the Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war marked a turning point in the Civil War. During the Battle of Gettysburg, more than 90,000 Union soldiers faced off against General Robert E. Lee-the confederate, and halt the second Confederate invasion of the North. In November 1863, Lincoln came to the Gettysburg battlefield to dedicatee a cemetery for the fallen soldiers and delivered his Gettysburg Address. |
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Battle of Fredericksburg
(December 11, 1862- December 15, 1862) One of the most famous battles in the entire war between Confederate Army of Northern Virginia commanded by General Robert E. Lee and the Union Army commanded by General Ambrose Burnside, which also made the Battle of Gettysburg as the turning point of war later. According to the estimated statistics, around 1114,000 soldiers from Union Army and around 72,500 soldiers from the Confederate Army engaged in that battle, with the 12,653 casualties and losses and 5,377 casualties and losses from the Union Army and the Confederate Army separately. It’s important because it was followed by the Battle of Gettysburg where the Union Army halted the Confederate Army going north, and known as the “turning point of the Civil War.” |
Battle of Antietam (Battle of Sharpsburg)
(September 17, 1862) It was the first major battled that happened on the Union land and it was also the bloodiest single-day battle in the American history, with 12,401 soldier killed, wounded or missing from the Union side and 10,316 soldier killed, wounded or missing from the Confederate side, with a combined number around 22,717 casualties only on a single day. |
IMPORTANt PERSON
General George Meade
(December 31, 1815 – November 6, 1872) Cádiz, Spain George Gordon Meade was the eighth of eleven children, whose brother Richard Worsam Meade II became a naval officer later. He was a United States Army officer, who have involved in the Second Seminole War, Mexican-American War and was best known for defeating the Confederate Army at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War in 1863, which was been noticed as the bloodiest battle ever fought in the American Civil War and one of the most important battles. George Gordon Meade served the Union Army during the American Civil and fought against the Confederate Army led of Robert E. Lee. In addition, he also had the great war experience in Peninsula Campaign in1862, Seven Days Battles-a series of six major battles from Jun 25, 1862-July 1, 1862. |
Robert Edward Lee January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870 Stratford Hall, Virginia, Robert Edward Lee could be one of the most famous military officers in the America, commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, for leading such famous battles as Seven Days Battles, Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Gettysburg, etc. during the American Civil War. He was the son of Henry Lee III known as Light-Horse Harry Lee, the American Revolutionary War officer and have education in the United States Miltary Academy with the honor and married Mary Custis on June 30,1831. Robert E. Lee commanded the Confederate Army during the American Civil and fought against the Union Army led of George Gordon Meade at the Battle of Gettysburg. The Battle of Gettysburg was known as the war with the largest number of casualties-23,231 casualties, wounded and missing in the Confederate side- and the turning point of the entire war since the Confederate Army was halted by the Union Army going north toward. |
John Bell Hood
(June 1 or June 29,1831-August 30, 1879) Owingsville, Kentucky John Bell Hood was the son of John Wills Hood- a doctor and Theodosia French Hood and later became a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and like Robert E. Lee, Hood also graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1853 ranked 44th in a class of 52. He has involved the several American Civil War battles such as the Peninsula Campaign, Seven Days Battles Second Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Gettysburg and, etc. At the Battle of Gettysburg, he was wounded and could not move his left arm for the rest of life. Later in his career, he was getting ineffective especially known for Battle of Franklin led by him on November 30, 1864-left nearly total 9,500 soldier dead including being dead, wounded, captured or missing from both Union and Confederate side. Most of them died in about two hours and six Confederate generals died there according to the research. |
IMPORTANT PLACE
Confederate Cemetery
It is the largest private Confederate cemetery located in Franklin, Tennessee and was donated by McGavock planter family since 1866 after the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. After the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1863, soldiers were buried on the battlefield with the wooden name makers aside to identify soldiers’ names; however, as the time passed, the wooden makers were not clear for the others to read, so, the citizens of Franklin raised funds to exhume and reinter 1,480 soldiers’ bodies on the property donated by McGavock family. |