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TIME MACHINE: THE NEW YORK CITY DRAFT RIOTS

The infamous New York City Draft Riots occurred between July 13-16, 1863. This series of violent disturbances, which occurred during the third বছর of the U.S. Civil War, not only formed the largest civil insurrection, but also the largest race riot in United States history.

New York City's economy had been tied to the Southern states for decades. In fact, nearly half of its exports were cotton shipments দ্বারা the 1820s and the State of New York possessed many textiles mills that process cotton. New York City not only possessed many Southern sympathizers,...

TIME MACHINE: THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN

As every American knows, July 4 marks the birthdate of the United States. However, this particular Fourth of July of 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the Confederate Army's surrender of Vickburg, Mississippi to the Union's Army of the Tennessee, commanded দ্বারা Major General Ulysses S. Grant and the end of the Vicksburg Campaign.

The Vicksburg Campaign proved to be a series of maneuvers and battles in the U.S. Civil War's Western Theater, which was directed against Vicksburg, Mississippi and Port Hudson, Louisiana. Vicksburg was a fortress city that overlooked...

TIME MACHINE: THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War conflict, The Battle of Antietam. Also known as The Battle of Sharpsburg in the Southern states, the battle was the first major conflict of the war that took place on Union soil, near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

The road to the Battle of Antietam began in the aftermath of a Confederate victory at সেকেন্ড Battle of ষাঁড় Run two months earlier. Embolden দ্বারা success, General Robert E. Lee and the Jefferson Davis Administration in Richmond decided to take the war to Union soil দ্বারা invading Maryland. Lee's invasion of...

TIME MACHINE: BATTLE OF SHILOH


The Battle of Shiloh was fought between April 6-7, 1862; around Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. It was one of the first major battles in the Western Theater of the U.S. Civil War.

In southwestern Tennessee, the Union Army under Major-General Ulysses S. Grant had found his command camped at Pittsburg Landing, on the west bank of the Tennessee River. Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston wanted to launch surprise attack on Grant's forces and destroy it. Johnston's second-in-command, Pierre G. T. Beauregard advised against such an attack, fearing that the sounds...

TIME MACHINE: FIRST BATTLE OF ষাঁড় RUN

The First Battle of ষাঁড় Run, near Manassas, Virginia. It was fought on July 21, 1861 and is considered to be the first major land battle of the U.S. Civil War.

About a মাস অথবা two following the bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, the public throughout the Union began clamoring for a march against the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia; which they believed would bring an early end to the war. Yielding to this political pressure, President Abraham ইংল্যাণ্ডের লিংকনে তৈরি একধরনের ঝলমলে সবুজ রঙের কাপড় ordered Brigadier General Irvin McDowell to plan an advance across Bull...

TIME MACHINE: ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FIRST INAUGURATION

Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration as the 16th President of the United States occurred on March 4, 1861. The event marked the first time that a candidate from the Republican Party would enter the White House as this country's head of state.

The past two to three decades marked a great deal of turmoil for the United States, due to the growing sectional conflict that had developed between the Northern and Southern states over slavery and other issues. The Democratic Party (previously the Democratic-Republican Party) had dominated the country...