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American Civil War: 1863 (view source)
Revision as of 14:36, January 6, 2017
, 14:36, January 6, 2017Added info of Russian assistance to the USA
The battles around Chattanooga and the subsequent campaign in eastern Tennessee ended in one of the most complete Union victories of the war. Bragg’s army was defeated, men and materiel captured, and the Confederates driven south. The mountainous defense line that the Confederates had hoped to hold had been pierced; the rail center of Chattanooga was permanently in Union hands; and the rich, food- producing eastern Tennessee section was lost to the Confederacy. Relief had come at last for the Union sympathizers in eastern Tennessee. With Chattanooga secured as a base, the way was open for an invasion of the lower South.
The battles around Chattanooga and the subsequent campaign in eastern Tennessee ended in one of the most complete Union victories of the war. Bragg’s army was defeated, men and materiel captured, and the Confederates driven south. The mountainous defense line that the Confederates had hoped to hold had been pierced; the rail center of Chattanooga was permanently in Union hands; and the rich, food- producing eastern Tennessee section was lost to the Confederacy. Relief had come at last for the Union sympathizers in eastern Tennessee. With Chattanooga secured as a base, the way was open for an invasion of the lower South.
==Russian Involvement==
With [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] and [[France]] officially declaring "neutrality" to continue negotiating with the Confederates, the Union seemed to alone in it's Civil War. But in the autumn of 1863, the Imperial Russian Navy arrived in the harbors of New York and San Francisco to support the Union from interference from the "Crimean Coalition" comprising of Britain, France, and [[Austria]] it was at odds with.
The support from the Russian fleet was a big morale booster for Union forces, and relations with [[Russian Empire|Imperial Russia]] strengthened with toasts being made, and Thomas Bailey saying:
:''In sending them [the fleet] to this country there is something significant. What will be its effect on France and the French policy we shall learn in due time. It may be moderate; it may exasperate. God bless the Russians.:''<ref>http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1983-4/delehaye.htm</ref>
This intervention by the Russians frustrated the British and French who looked forward to taking advantage of the Union when it was vulnerable. A London satirical cartoon blasted the intervention by trying to paint Abraham Lincoln and [[Tsar]] [[Alexander II]] as bloody oppressors instead of liberators for preventing them from taking over the United States. <ref>http://www.voltairenet.org/article169488.html</ref>
==Articles in the series==
==Articles in the series==
*[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html Civil War Treasures, from New York Historical Society]
*[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html Civil War Treasures, from New York Historical Society]
*[http://www.bartleby.com/1011/ Memoirs of U.S. Grant, from Bartleby.com]
*[http://www.bartleby.com/1011/ Memoirs of U.S. Grant, from Bartleby.com]
*[http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1983-4/delehaye.htm]
*[http://www.voltairenet.org/article169488.html]
*[https://www.c-span.org/video/?315198-1/russias-participation-us-civil-war]
[[Category:American Civil War]]
[[Category:American Civil War]]