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The Battle of Richmond

            On the nights and days of August 29^th and 30^th, 1862 there was a battle that raged between Maj. Gen. Kirby Smith led his confederate offense north through Kentucky. While the Rebel Army moved north n a road near Big Hill they ran into some confederate troops and later on the 29^th the battle of Richmond was being fought well into the night. The Yankees soon had to retreat to a town close by called Rogersville where Smith rallied up some men but by then it was to late and the Rebels had already captured about 4,000 Yankees. The Yankees had lost the battle due to the Rebel Army surrounding and pushing back the Yankees. The Battle may have been lost for the Yankees but the war nowhere near being over. The Civil War wouldn’t end for another 3 years until April 9^th, 1865.

John Brown

            On a cold October night in 1659 John Brown would do something that would lead to what would be the biggest battle the war would ever see. At night John Smith would sneak onto a confederate ferry and set fire to it. This act would later be known as The Pottawatomie Massacre. This would later lead to the blacks beginning to rebel and kill five armory men with the help of John Brown.

Emancipation Proclamation! :D

The Emancipation Proclamation Act

The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War, to all segments of the Executive branch of the United States. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion,

Thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at the time.

The Proclamation was based on the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief of the armed forces;

It was not a law passed by Congress. The Proclamation also ordered that "suitable" persons among those freed could be enrolled into the paid service of United States' forces, and ordered the Union Army to "recognize and maintain the freedom of" the ex-slaves. The Proclamation did not compensate the owners, did not itself outlaw slavery, and did not make the ex-slaves citizens. It made the eradication of slavery an explicit war goal, in addition to the goal of reuniting the Union.

Around 20,000 to 50,000 slaves in regions where rebellion had already been subdued were immediately emancipated. It could not be enforced in areas still under rebellion, but as the Union army took control of Confederate regions, the Proclamation provided the legal framework for freeing more than 3 million more slaves in those regions. Prior to the Proclamation, in accordance with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, escaped slaves were either returned to their masters or held in camps as contraband for later return.

  

Gettysburg Article

      The Battle of Gettysburg started on July 1st, 1863 and resulted in a Union victory on the 3rd of July. The battle was fought near and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This battle had the most casualties out of all the battles of the American Civil War. The battle was fought between George G. Meade and John F. Reynolds and their 93,921 United States troops against Robert E. Lee and his 71,699 Confederate States troops. The United States lost a total of 23,055 men and the Confederate States lost a total of 23,231 men.
     The first day of the battle consisted of General Lee concentrating his forces in Gettysburg which helped to collapse the Union forces. The second day was when both the armies assembled. The Union forces resembled a fishhook with their defensive stand point. Even after many losses the Union army held their ground. The last day included a lot of calvary battles, but the main event was the 12,500 man charge by the Confederates on the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge and Pickett's Charge. This final charge resulted in many Confederate losses and a long, torturous retreat back to Virginia. On November 19th, President Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for the Gettysburg National Cemetery  to honor the fallen Union soldiers and gave his historic, Gettysburg Address.

Facts, Data, and Pictures found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg