Why do you think so many battles in the civial war took place in virginia?
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virgin always be good. traditionally most of men want marry virginial girls. so virginia girl is the main reason maybe.
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You are going to have to restate your question.  And which civil war are you talking about?  There have been many (not everyone on this service will assume that you are talking about the War of the Roses, like I am).
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As for North and South Dakota/Carolina, the answer has been given. The story with VA and WV is related to the issue of slavery and the period leading up to the American Civil War.\n\n(In short: What used to be "eastern Virginia" was mostly inhabited by slave-owning plantation holders. The part that is now West Virginia was inhabited by small farmers etc. The situation threatened to split the state apart, so the people voted to split it up in two states: WV for the Union, VA for the Confederacy.)
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Because the Victors (in the this case the Northern States) write the history books.  To that add another 146 years of revisioinist history ~ and the orgins etc get lost, to all but the true history buffs.\n\nBy definition it was NOT a civil war, for it to be a civil war, you would have to have one group trying to gain control of the government/nation from the other.  That is not what the South was attempting to do.  They did NOT want to seize control of the United States Government ~ they wanted to leave it ~ that is to say ~ succeed ~ and form a nation and a governmetn of their own.  \n\nAnoter mis-conception about the War Between The States is that it was fought over slawvery.  It wasn't.  It was fought over different opinoins about the Constitution and the interpetation of the same.  Its was fought over the same arguments that preceeded the actual war by decades, almost back to the foundation of the United States ~ which can be studied in the "Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers"  \n\nIf it had been at the time publically stated on either side, North or South, that the war was being fought over slavery, the average solider in the field on both sides would not have fought, this is evidenced in what historians refer to as "orginal documents" mainly lettters and such that were written by soliders on both sides of the conflict.  \n\nWhat the Northern solider was fighting for was to perserve the Union as it had exsisted prior to the succession of the Southern States, ~ they could care less about the slaves.  What the Southern solider was fighting for was to protect his "country" (The Confederate States of America) his home and family against a "foreign" invasion from another country.  They to, didn't care about the slaves ~ as you're average, typical Southerner didn't own slaves.  A very small percentage of the Southern population even owned a slave, with only about 1/10th of the Southern population owning 50 or more.\n\nWhat is left out of today's modern history books about the so-called "civil war" is that there were more than just a few "freed" Southern blacks, that owned other black slaves. And, they were not relatives ~ they were slaves, and were treated as slaves, and worked as slaves.  This is documented historial fact.
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Technically, I'm not sure there is a correct answer.\n\nKentucky and West Virginia come closest, but both were parts of Virginia when it was under British Rule.\n\nI will say West Virginia, since it was created long after the French and British had left the US.
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They were both created at the same time. It was the first conflict involving two people. One iniated the situation and the other tried getting out of it. Makes sense to me.
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Actually, the Battle of Gettysburg was never supposed to happen.  It was a battle that accidentally occurred when branches of each army ran into each other.\n\nMore here:\n\nThe greatest battle of the Civil War almost wasn't.  It was not a planned attack; rather the Confederate General Lee had his troops on the move trying to threaten other northern cities.  However, Confederate and Union troops came together at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for three days of the most intense fighting to occur during our country's Civil War.\n\n     The geology of the area around Gettysburg was an important factor of the three days of battle.  A number of ridges that play key roles in the fighting run mostly north and south.  These ridges are diabase sills.   The area is made up of the Piedmont proper, the Triassic basins, the Blue Ridge of Virginia, and the Great Valley.\n\nhttp://www.scsc.k12.ar.us/2000backeast/Trip/Members/CopleyJ/
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The answer is obvious.\n\nGood soldiers fight in many wars because they are 'good' soldiers, ie. good at their job.\n\nBad soldiers fight in only one.
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Philidelphia new york.During the ciil war it was washington and richmond was capital of south
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The battle of Chicamauga in the Civil War.\n\nhttp://ngeorgia.com/history/chickam.html\n\nBy the way, if you didn't have time to look it up yourself, then how did you have time to ask this question, and then wait for an answer for it.  Sounds like someone needs to get their priorities straightened out.
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There once was a war that was pivital\nAnd somehow this war was called "civil"\nThey all fought alot\nAnd someone got shot\nIt's too bad when different sides quibble!
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General Hooker, of the Union, wished to envelope, or surround, Robert E Lee's Confederate forces.  Hooker had assembled approximately 70,000 well rested Union forces, while Lee had trouble mustering his 40,000 forces.  Hooker felt, based partly on the Union's failure at Fredericksburg, that it was better to be on the defensive then the offensive.  So he took up defensive positions around the town and in the wilderness.  The idea was that Lee would either have to attack or withdraw.\n\nLee decided to accept the challenge and to attack.  He decided to gamble.  He gave his best general, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, about 28,000 troops.  The idea was that Jackson would flank the Union while Lee distracted them with the remaining troops.  The plan required Jackson to move his troops without being noticed and this is what happened.  Hooker stayed contendely in his defensive position thinking Lee was withdrwaing, when Jacksons troops were finally spotted.  \n\nThe real fighting began once the Confederates had the position they wanted and so the Battle of Chancellorsville had begun.\n\nBelow is a link to a National Park Service website which will elaborate on what I just wrote.
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the northern states wanted to defeat the southern states so as to keep the states together. they won (obviously) and therefore kept the US as a whole. And there's this website to help you:\n\nwww.vermontcivilwar.org
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The aversion to the slave trade was growing by the mid-nineteenth century, and in 1848, Henry “Box” Brown made history by having himself nailed into a small box and shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, escaping slavery to the land of freedom.\n\nAt the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, the strategic location of the Tredegar Iron Works was one of the primary 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 Confederates' heavy ordnance machinery. In 1861, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America. One month later Davis placed Richmond under martial law. Two months after Davis’ inauguration, the Confederate army fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Civil War had begun. The Seven Days Battle followed in June of 1862. Four years later in April 1865 Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army captured Richmond, one week later, Robert E. Lee's retreating Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House symbolically ending the war. In 1865, on Evacuation Sunday, large parts of the city were destroyed in a fire set by retreating Confederate soldiers.\n\nMonument Avenue was laid out in 1887, with a series of monuments at various intersections honoring the city's Confederate heroes. Included (east to west) were J.E.B. Stuart, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and Matthew F. Maury. Richmond is the final resting place of both Stuart and Davis (see Hollywood Cemetery).\n\n \nAn historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888. The intersection shown is at 8th & Broad Streets.Richmond had the first successful electrically-powered trolley system in the United States. Designed by electric power pioneer, Frank J. Sprague, the trolley system opened its first line in January, 1888. Richmond's hills, long a transportation obstacle, were considered an ideal proving ground. The new technology soon replaced horse-powered streetcars.
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use the battle of honey springs...\n\nits unique because more indians and blacks were involved in this battle than whites. that was rare..\n\ncheck this page out:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Honey_Springs
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Actually, at one time there was an idea floated to make the Virginia Military Institute into a Marine Corps Academy. This is in part because "Chesty" Puller was an alumnus of VMI (though he was not a graduate, he dropped out to enlist in the Marines for the Spanish American War and rose through the ranks to become a highly decorated general). There was never any follow-up to this, I believe in part because VMI was and remains a very integral part of Virginia history and pride.
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The North had military organizational issues. The Union Army could never really understand what it meant to fight as one unit. That is why the North went through several different Generals (supreme command of the army of the potomic). Another major problem was their assumption that the war was going to last a couple of months. After the Battle of Bull Run, the Union army finally realized they were in for a long war.