The American Civil War (1 Viewer)

[DeathHand]

"The American Civil War (1861–1865), often referred to as The Civil War in the United States, was a civil war fought over the secession of the Confederacy. In response to the election of an anti-slavery Republican as President, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ("the Confederacy"); the other 25 states supported the federal government ("the Union"). After four years of warfare, mostly within the Southern states, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was outlawed everywhere in the nation. Issues that led to war were partially resolved in the Reconstruction Era that followed, though others remained unresolved.

In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against expanding slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. The Republicans strongly advocated nationalism, and in their 1860 platform they denounced threats of disunion as avowals of treason. After a Republican victory, but before the new administration took office on March 4, 1861, seven cotton states declared their secession and joined to form the Confederate States of America. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and the incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering it rebellion. The other eight slave states rejected calls for secession at this point. No country in the world recognized the Confederacy."

Set 1.

1. Union and Confederate.

2. Bloody Lane at Antietam. Advancing forces had to cross at a different point because soldiers were slipping in the blood.

3. Soldiers being buried at Fredericksburg, VA in 1864.

4. Collecting remains a year after the battle at Cold Harbor, VA.

 

[DeathHand]

"Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property, which led to declarations of secession by four more slave states. Both sides raised armies as the Union seized control of the border states early in the war and established a naval blockade.

Land warfare in the East was inconclusive in 1861–62, as the Confederacy beat back Union efforts to capture its capital, Richmond, Virginia, notably during the Peninsular Campaign. In September 1862, the Confederate campaign in Maryland ended in defeat at the Battle of Antietam, which dissuaded the British from intervening. Days after that battle, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal."

Set 2.

5. Body of a soldier dead in a trench. He was reportedly only 14 yrs old.

6. The Devils Den - a Confederate sharpshooter taken out.

7. Head shot to a Confederate soldier.

8. Dead Confederate soldier (before photographed at cannon prop).

 

[DeathHand]

"In 1863, Confederate general Robert E. Lee's northward advance ended in defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg. To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after the Battle of Shiloh and Siege of Vicksburg, splitting the Confederacy in two and destroying much of their western army. Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of the eastern army in 1864, and organized the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Sheridan and others to attack the Confederacy from all directions, increasing the North's advantage in manpower.

Grant restructured the union army, and put other generals in command of divisions of the army that were to support his push into Virginia. He fought several battles of attrition against Lee through the Overland Campaign to seize Richmond, though in the face of fierce resistance he altered his plans and led the Siege of Petersburg which nearly finished off the rest of Lee's army. Meanwhile, Sherman captured Atlanta and marched to the sea, destroying Confederate infrastructure along the way. When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865."

Set 3.

9. Same dead soldier as Set 2, #8, but from the other side and photographers prop added. The nearby dead soldier is a Union soldier.

10. Dead Confederate soldier at Spotsylvania, 1864.

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12. Death in the mud.

 

[DeathHand]

"The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars. Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively. The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, and of trench warfare around Petersburg foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 750,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties.

Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40. Victory for the North meant the end of the Confederacy and of slavery in the United States, and strengthened the role of the federal government. The social, political, economic and racial issues of the war decisively shaped the reconstruction era that lasted to 1877."

Set 4.

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16. Dead Confederates ready for burial.

 

[DeathHand]

"The war produced about 1,030,000 casualties (3% of the population), including about 620,000 soldier deaths—two-thirds by disease. Binghamton University historian J. David Hacker believes the number of soldier deaths was approximately 750,000, 20% higher than traditionally estimated, and possibly as high as 850,000.

The war accounted for roughly as many American deaths as all American deaths in other U.S. wars combined."

Set 5.

17.

18. See if you can find the second dead soldier in this trench.

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[DeathHand]

"One reason for the high number of battle deaths during the war was the use of Napoleonic tactics, such as charging. With the advent of more accurate rifled barrels, Minié balls and (near the end of the war for the Union army) repeating firearms such as the Spencer repeating rifle, soldiers were mowed down when standing in lines in the open. This led to the adoption of trench warfare, a style of fighting that defined the better part of World War I."

Set 6.

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[DeathHand]

Set 7.

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[DeathHand]

Set 8.

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[Msprissypants]

You never fail to impress, DeathHand.
Thank you

 

[DeathHand]

"At the beginning of 1864, Lincoln made Grant commander of all Union armies. Grant made his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac, and put Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in command of most of the western armies. Grant understood the concept of total war and believed, along with Lincoln and Sherman, that only the utter defeat of Confederate forces and their economic base would end the war. This was total war not in terms of killing civilians but rather in terms of destroying homes, farms, and railroads.

Grant devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the entire Confederacy from multiple directions. Generals George Meade and Benjamin Butler were ordered to move against Lee near Richmond, General Franz Sigel (and later Philip Sheridan) were to attack the Shenandoah Valley, General Sherman was to capture Atlanta and march to the sea (the Atlantic Ocean), Generals George Crook and William W. Averell were to operate against railroad supply lines in West Virginia, and Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks was to capture Mobile, Alabama."

Set 9.

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[DeathHand]

"Union forces in the East attempted to maneuver past Lee and fought several battles during that phase ("Grant's Overland Campaign") of the Eastern campaign. Grant's battles of attrition at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor resulted in heavy Union losses, but forced Lee's Confederates to fall back repeatedly.

An attempt to outflank Lee from the south failed under Butler, who was trapped inside the Bermuda Hundred river bend. Grant was tenacious and, despite astonishing losses (over 65,000 casualties in seven weeks), kept pressing Lee's Army of Northern Virginia back to Richmond. He pinned down the Confederate army in the Siege of Petersburg, where the two armies engaged in trench warfare for over nine months."

Set 10.

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[DeathHand]

"Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House. In an untraditional gesture and as a sign of Grant's respect and anticipation of peacefully restoring Confederate states to the Union, Lee was permitted to keep his sword and his horse, Traveller.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, a Southern sympathizer. Lincoln died early the next morning, and Andrew Johnson became president. Meanwhile, Confederate forces across the South surrendered as news of Lee's surrender reached them. On June 23, 1865, Cherokee leader Stand Watie was the last Confederate general to surrender his forces."

Set 11.

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45. This young soldier lays dead next to the grave of another soldier.

*This is just a small number of photos available for the American Civil War. The focus of this thread was the soldiers that died. Non-gore pictures were intentionally left out for another thread.

Many have seen these photos, some maybe not, and I am sure that a few of them are here on GG somewhere but none are in a dedicated US Civil War thread. DH.

 

[DeathHand]

You never fail to impress, DeathHand.
Thank you

Thanks B. Glad you like

 

[aRyan]

So sad. I wonder what the US, or the world for that matter, would look like now if the CSA defeated the Union and kept their states separate?

Also, I believe it is stated in the Constitution that states CAN succeed from the Union if they so desired. If this is true, then it was the Union, and the President of the USA that were the treasonous.

 

[(M.G.T.)]

"Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House. In an untraditional gesture and as a sign of Grant's respect and anticipation of peacefully restoring Confederate states to the Union, Lee was permitted to keep his sword and his horse, Traveller.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, a Southern sympathizer. Lincoln died early the next morning, and Andrew Johnson became president. Meanwhile, Confederate forces across the South surrendered as news of Lee's surrender reached them. On June 23, 1865, Cherokee leader Stand Watie was the last Confederate general to surrender his forces."

Set 11.

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*This is just a small number of photos available for the American Civil War. The focus of this thread was the soldiers that died. Non-gore pictures were intentionally left out for another thread.

Many have seen these photos, some maybe not, and I am sure that a few of them are here on GG somewhere but none are in a dedicated US Civil War thread. DH.

REALLY THANK U FOR THIS DEATH HAND , AND THANK GOD THAT MUSLIMS HAVE NOTHING IN STARTING THIS WAR,,,, YOU KNOW THAT ANY FUCKEN THING HAPPEND IN THIS WORLD , SOME ASS HALLS COME AND SAY MUSLIMS DID THAT AND THIS AND AND AND

 

[Honken1337]

DeathHand. My hero.

 

[DeathHand]

And just a quick comparison of the number of American deaths in recent wars shows just how deadly the Civil War was. These numbers do not include Wounded or MIA soldiers but does include all types of death (disease, illness, accident, combat, etc).

1. Civil War - 625,000
2. WW1 - 116,516
3. WW2 - 405,399
4. Korea - 36,516
5. Vietnam - 58,209
6. Iraq/Afghan - 6,280

Total deaths in the American Civil War are more than deaths during WW1, WW2, Korea and 3/4's of Vietnam combined.

 

[DirtyDiamonds]

Wow these are great. II don't care that we lost, we put up a hell of a fight

 

[DeathHand]

Wow these are great. II don't care that we lost, we put up a hell of a fight

Yes, that the States did (fight well). But the Civil War didn't include multiple other nations or broad theatres of war like they encountered in WW1, WW2, etc. It was strictly American against American. So a "hell of a fight" really boils down to the Americans of the South and those of the North.

 

[DirtyDiamonds]

Yes, that the States did (fight well). But the Civil War didn't include multiple other nations or broad theatres of war like they encountered in WW1, WW2, etc. It was strictly American against American. So a "hell of a fight" really boils down to the Americans of the South and those of the North.

Sorry ... I didn't mention I'm a proud southern girl lol my ancestors fought in the war.