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 * P -** Pickett’s Charge was a disastrous infantry assault ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen George G. Meade’s Union Positions on Cemetery Ridge, on July 3, 1863, the last day of the battle of Gettysburg. Its futility was predicted by the charge’s commander, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, and it was arguably an avoidable mistake from which the southern war effort never fully recovered psychologically. The farthest point reached by the attack has been nicknamed the High-water mak of the Confederacy.


 * Q -** William Clark Quantrill was the oldest of 8 children. He lived from July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865. He was a pro-Confederate Guerrilla fighter during the American Civil War whose actions, particularly a bloody raid on Lawrence, Kansas, remain controversial to this day. The most significant event of Quantrill's guerrilla career occurred on April 21, 1863.

The Civil war was the First war to be fought by railroad. Even though the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, before Lincoln arrived in Washington in the dead of night passing through Baltimore so no one would know.
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The North began the war with an enormous advantage over the South it possessed over twice the rail mileage twenty thousand miles to the South’s nine thousand. The North’s railroads were also better equipped. The Eire and the Pennsy alone had more locomotives then the whole South.

At the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, the Strategic location of the Tredegar Iron Works was one of the primarily factors in the decision to make Richmond the Capital of the Confederacy. From this Arsenal came the 723 tons of armor plating that covered the CSS Virginia, the world’s first ironclad used in war, as well as much of the Confederate’s heavy ordnance machinery. In February 1861, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President of the Confederate Sates of America in Montgomery, Alabama, the first Confederate Capital. In the early morning of April 12, 1861, the Confederate army fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Civil War had begun. On April 17, 1861, Virginia Broke off from the United States and joined the Confederate States, and soon there after the Confederate government moved its capital to Richmond.