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This battle started the Civil War when the south fired opon it while supplies were bieng brought in.
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This was the first major land battle of the Civil War, a little over a year later the second battle of Manasses wuld be fought here.
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Johnston withdrew his 60,000 man army from the Virginia Penninsula as McClellan's army chased him and approached the Confederate capital of Richmond.
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The Seven Days Battles was a series of six major battles over the seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862.
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Lee didn't just want to get some weapons, he wanted to take back the line of supply to Virginia.
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Genral Ambrose Burnsides plan was to get to and take over Richmnd
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This was another union attempt to get to Richmond, but like the others, it failed
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This battle marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign.
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Grant's campaign objective was not the Confederate capital of Richmond, but the destruction of Lee's army.
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Early in 1865, both sides in south Texas honored a gentlemen's agreement that there was no point to further hostilities, it is thought to be a post Civil War fight
