United States - Civil War, Battles, Union

United States - Civil War, Battles, Union: Following the capture of Fort Sumter, both sides quickly began raising and organizing armies. On July 21, 1861, some 30,000 Union troops marching toward the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, were stopped at Bull Run (Manassas) and then driven back to Washington, D.C., by Confederates under Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson and Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. The shock of defeat galvanized the Union, which called for 500,000 more recruits. Gen. George B. McClellan was given the job of training the Union’s Army of the Potomac. The first major campaign of the war began in February 1862, when the Union general Ulysses

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United States - Civil War, Battles, Union

US Civil War, Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, Feb. 14-16, 1862. The Union flag waves over Fort Donaldson after 2nd and 4th Iowa, and 11th and 25th Indiana regiments, captured a Confederate

United States - Civil War, Battles, Union

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