American Civil War: 1862

The Civil War 1861 - 1865
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.

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the Monitor and the Merrimac at Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862.

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

• Official Records, from Cornell University
• Official Records, from eHistory.com

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