The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Major changes in tactical adaptation would ... finally conquering many of its command-and-control issues. At its largest the Union Army would grow to over 600,000 Soldiers in size which in 1863 ...

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Hooker traveled east to rejoin the Union army. Refused at first ... Denied promotion from major general to lieutenant general, he chose to end his participation ...

Lee, and the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade, fought what may have been the most crucial battle of the war. If the South had won a major victory, some historians believe that ...

From 1861 to 1865, the Army of Northern Virginia fought in dozens of major battles including the ... and defeated militarily only because the Union's overwhelming advantages in men and resources.