Black people across the South got freedom from their bondage during the Civil War. However, they had to face many more difficulties, and many of them succumbed to illness in contraband camps. […]
African American soldiers faced a lot of prejudice when they joined the United States Army during the Civil War. However, it didn’t stop them from proving their competency on the battlefield. […]
After the Emancipation Proclamation, keeping the freed people in contraband camps was problematic. Abolitionists and black people advocated land allocation as a viable solution. […]
The battle, and eventual win, of the Union Army at Chattanooga brought about a lot of changes in terms of strategy and leadership. Ulysses Grant was made the General-in-Chief, however, Braxton Bragg was removed from his position. Besides, the victory also boosted the Union morale which had gone through some rough times before this battle. […]
The diplomatic struggle was finally won by the North and it received recognition from the major European powers, including Britain and France. There were some blips in between, like the crisis over the Laird rams in the summer of 1863, and the French intervention in Mexico under Napoleon III. […]
When London and Paris looked at what was going on in America, they saw a Confederate nation with a written constitution, with a formal government, with an army in the field, and with a foreign policy. They said that’s a belligerent. And the United States, after all, was blockading the Confederacy. […]
The South went into the war believing that its cotton was absolutely necessary to the British economy. And, the Confederates believed that if that supply were denied, then a big portion of the British economy would be disrupted. That’s when they came up with the ‘King Cotton’ strategy to win over Great Britain and establish diplomatic ties with it. […]
Ulysses Grant removed William Rosecrans as the commander of the Army of the Cumberland and reached Chattanooga to help out the Union Army. He successfully commanded the troops in the battles of Chattanooga that resulted in the retreat of Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Army. […]
Union General Williams S. Rosecrans took his troops into Chattanooga after Chickamauga and began to prepare for a Confederate attack. However, on the Confederate side, things were getting acrimonious and Braxton Bragg faced a lot of dissent from his commanders. […]
But the fight on the twentieth did not work out according to plan. When Bragg woke up, he didn’t hear the sound of any firing whereas he was expecting the assault to begin early. […]
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