American Civil War: 1862
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The Civil War
1861 - 1865 | |
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Begun | April 12, 1861 |
Ended | April 9, 1865 |
Casualties | 970,000 |
Total dead | 620,000 |
United States of America | |
President | Abraham Lincoln |
Secretary of War | Edwin M. Stanton |
Secretary of the Navy | Gideon Welles |
Secretary of State | William Seward |
Confederate States of America | |
President | Jefferson Davis |
Secretary of War | Leroy Pope Walker, Judah P. Benjamin, George W. Randolph, James Seddon, John C. Breckinridge |
Secretary of the Navy | Stephan Mallory |
Secretary of State | Robert Toombs, Robert M.T. Hunter, Judah P. Benjamin |
The first year of the Civil War began with green troops on both sides expecting easy victories and a quick end of the war; many young men enlisted with romantic dreams of glory. 1862 had barely begun when those dreams would be forever shattered by the carnage of a fierce battle at a site in Tennessee whose name meant "peace", and would barely end after the single bloodiest day in American history.
Contents
Organization
Eastern Theater
The Penninsular Campaign
Jackson's Valley Campaign
Fair Oaks
The Seven Days
Western Theater
Fort Henry
Fort Donelson
Shiloh
Trans-Mississippi Theater
Pea Ridge
Duel of the Ironclads
New Orleans
The Bloodiest Day
Fredericksburg
References
- Time-Life Books The Civil War, vol. 3 (The Blockade), Time Inc, New York (1983)
- Time-Life Books The Civil War, vol. 4 (The Road to Shiloh), Time Inc, New York (1983)
- Bowman, John S. (editor), The Civil War Almanac World Almanac Publications, New York (1985)
Links
The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
General
- Library of Congress Civil War map collection
- The Civil War Homepage
- The PBS/Ken Burns documentary
- The History Place
- Civil War at a Glance; US Interior Department
- Shotgun's home of the American Civil War
- US Civil War Center, from Louisiana State University
- Civil War Treasures, from New York Historical Society