Talk:American Civil War/Archive 1

NON NEUTRAL POINT OF VIEW

This page describes the American Secession War with no regard to the opinion other than the Yankees' one. This is no Neutral Point Of View! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.244.187.73 (talk • contribs) 16:29, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Then please suggest changes. The text seems Neutral to me. I'm removing the Nuetral dispute for now, if you have specific critisms of the article you can put it back. 198.112.236.6 22:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC) You guys should get better infomation

15th Amendment clarification

I added the sentence from Tygartl1's edit, I personally think it helps clarify that at the time voting rights were not extended to all citizens. Women were citizens, but did not have the right to vote. Browne34 17:27, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

It seems easy to read

It also seems that it is aiming toward yankees winning, they should have more pictures and descripitions, i also feel that they should have a part for the women in the war, if it werent for them, many of the southerners and northerners wouldn't have made it very long. I feel we need to honor those women. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.88.86.3 (talk • contribs) 14:37, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Remember that you can be bold and make the necessary additions yourself! =) Nishkid64 (talk) 14:39, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Battle of Huntington

Not a significant topic. Not mentioned in The American Pageant or National Experience, two widely respected history books. Not even accurate--Huntington Beach has nothing to do with the battle, but instead California railroad man Henry Huntington. I think that it should be cut, in my opinion, but I leave it up to other editors. It's currently invisible, surrounded by the arrows. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 03:50, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Since no one has commented, I deleted it. You can find it in the history. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 16:42, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Red Links

There are many red links in "The War" section. Should these be removed? 70.171.224.249 (talk) 17:17, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Generals

I added a dozen for each side, ranked roughly by their importance of command. Most of them commanded armies; a few in the CSA just had corps to balance out #s b/c Union had more armies and less stability of command. They are:

USA:

• Grant (commander of all armies @ end of war)
• McClellan (commander of all armies and Army of Potomac for part of war)
• Sherman (commander of Army of TN and Mil. Div. of MS/Western armies)
• Scott and Halleck (commanders of all armies on paper but never fought)
• Meade, Burnside and Hooker (corps commanders who later commander Army of Potomac; latter two reverted back to corps)
• Butler (commanded Army of Gulf when New Orleans was seiged; later commanded Army of the James)
• Sheridan (commanded Army of Shenandoah and Union Cavalry; commanded all armies postbellum)
• Rosecrans & Thomas (commanders of Army of the Cumberland)

CSA:

• Lee (full general, commander of the Army of Northern VA, General-in-Chief of all armies late in the war)
• J. Johnston and Beauregard (full generals, commander of ANV early in the war and Dept. of Tennessee later)
• A. Johnston (full general, commander of Army of Tennessee before being KIA)
• Cooper (see Halleck and Scott)
• Bragg and Hood (full generals (though the 2nd only temp.), commanders of Army of Tennessee)
• Jackson (corps commander (Lee's right arm), commander of the Army of Shenandoah)
• Stuart (cavalry commander)
• Early (same as Jackson, only not Lee's right arm)
• Longstreet (corps commander)
• Smith (corps commander, later commander of Army of the Trans-Mississippi and full general very late in the war)

Purplebackpack89 18:29, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Treaty of Ghent

you need to add more about the end of the war and how it ended — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.63.6.173 (talk • contribs) 21:32, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Treaty of Ghent wasn't even the American Civil War Purplebackpack89 22:18, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Slavery

i am not sure on this but i heard that the abolishment of slavery was not a goal at the beginning but was added at the end. why else would border states with slavery fight for the Union