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The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned.
In the autumn of 1862, Lincoln's new commander, Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, promised swift action by moving south against Fredericksburg to open a route to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. With Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army divided, Burnside believed he could do it all before Lee could react. But when...
2) Shiloh
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The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned. After his early success in the Civil War's Western Theater, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant moved south to capture the key railroad hub at Corinth and further cut into the Confederate hold on the Tennessee and Mississippi River Valleys. But Confederate Gen. Albert S. Johnston wasn't playing by Grant's script. Instead of waiting...
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Get facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more in this concise summary of Robert E. Lee's victory in Virginia.
The Confederate victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville is considered the crowning military achievement of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Against the numerically superior Union Army of the Potomac, Lee took a calculated risk by dividing his Army of Northern Virginia in what would become the largest flanking maneuver of the Civil War....
4) Antietam
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Get facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more in this concise summary of the notoriously bloody Civil War battle.
During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces launched their first invasion of the North. When Union forces met them near Sharpsburg, Maryland, along Antietam Creek, the result was the "bloodiest day" in American military history. Although the battle of Antietam was a tactical draw, Union Gen. George McClellan stopped...
5) Gettysburg
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A concise guide to the American Civil War battle that set the North on the path to victory, with maps, facts, historical significance, and more.
Gettysburg represented a strategic turning point in the American Civil War and has thus been referred to as the "high-water mark" of the Confederacy. Although tactically a draw, strategically it was a major victory for the Union. After the battle, the Army of Northern Virginia limped home, never to regain...
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