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Battle of the Wilderness was fought for May 5 to May 7 of 1864. It was the first battle between Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee, they both suffered heavy casualties. The battle was tactically inconclusive, as Grant disengaged and continued his offensive.
 * V-** The Battle of Vicksburge started in May 18 and ended in July 4, 1863. The location was in Warren County, Mississippi. As the Union forces approached Vicksburg, Pemberton could put only 18,500 troops in his lines. Grant had over twice that, with more coming.
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William Quantrill has been described as being the Bloodiest man in the annals of America. He was the leader of the Missouri Parisian Rangers and guerilla gang during the Civil War. He became notorious for his leader ship skills, his excellent horsemanship and his warfare tactics. He is most remembered for his organized of the raid on Lawrence, Kansas in August of 1863 where over 150 citizens were massacred. Williams was described as being about 5’9” feet tall with a roman nose and sandy or yellowish brown hair. He usually wore a drab slouch hat, woolen shirts, and high heeled boots. He was looked upon as a monster by unionists and as a hero by southern and Confederates.

The Volcanic riffle used a form of caseless ammunition and had only limited success. Wesson had also designed an early form of rimfire cartridge which was subsequently perfected by Benjamin Tyler Henry. Henry also supervised the redesign of the rifle to use the new ammunition retaining only the general form of the breech mechanism and the tubular magazine. This numbers by certain Union army units in the civil war.

After the war Oliver Winchester continued to exercise control of the company renaming it Winchester Repeating Arms Company and had the basic design of the Henry rifle completely modified and improved to become the first Winchester rifle, the model 1866, which fired rimfire cartridges like the Henry but had an improved magazine and for the first time a wooden forearm. Another popular model was rolled out in 1873. The 1873 model introduced the first Winchester center fire cartridge. These rifle families are both commonly known as the Gun That Won the West.


 * Washington D.C.** Is the capital of the United States. It is also were the White House is were the President lives. It was named after George Washington the first president of the United States. The White House has many rooms in it.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America
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