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  2. Category:American Civil War orders of battle - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Brandy Station order of battle: Union. Battle of Carthage order of battle: Union. Battle of Cedar Creek order of battle: Confederate. Battle of Cedar Mountain order of battle: Union. Battle of Chaffin's Farm order of battle: Confederate. Battle of Chantilly order of battle: Union.

  3. List of American Civil War battles - Wikipedia

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    Confederate forces under Gen. Robert S. Garnett split in half mid-battle by Union forces under Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan. One half surrenders; the other escapes. July 18, 1861. Battle of Blackburn's Ford. Virginia. C. Confederate. Irvin McDowell 's recon-in-force defeated at Manassas. July 21, 1861.

  4. General Order No. 11 (1863) - Wikipedia

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    General Order No. 11 is the title of a Union Army directive issued during the American Civil War on August 25, 1863, forcing the abandonment of rural areas in four counties in western Missouri. The order, issued by Union General Thomas Ewing, Jr., affected all rural residents regardless of their allegiance. Those who could prove their loyalty ...

  5. General Order No. 11 (1862) - Wikipedia

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    General Order No. 11 was a controversial Union Army order issued by Major-General Ulysses S. Grant on December 17, 1862 during the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. The order expelled all Jews from Grant's military district, comprising areas of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. Grant issued the order in an effort to reduce ...

  6. American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether slavery should be ...

  7. Forty acres and a mule - Wikipedia

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    General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule. Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16th, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha).

  8. George Meade - Wikipedia

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    Richmond-Petersburg campaign. Appomattox campaign. George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 – November 6, 1872) was a United States Army Major General who commanded the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War from 1863 to 1865. He fought in many of the key battles of the Eastern theater and defeated the Confederate Army of Northern ...

  9. General Order No. 28 - Wikipedia

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    General Order No. 28 was a military decree made by Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler during the American Civil War. [1] Following the Battle of New Orleans, Butler established himself as military commander of that city on May 1, 1862. Many of the city's inhabitants were strongly hostile to the Federal government, and many women in particular expressed ...