Military Leaders from Shiloh to Chancellorsville
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| Union commander who was slow to move to defend Kentucky when the Confederates invaded | Don Carlos Buell
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| Confederate cavalry leader who caused so many problems for the Union forces in the West | Nathan Bedford Forrest
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| Confederate commander in the West who seemed to retreat every time after he engaged the enemy even if he hadn't been defeated. | Braxton Bragg
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| Union commander at Second Manassas who thought mistakenly that Jackson was withdrawing to the Valley instead of attacking the Union army | John Pope
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| Union commander who held back his reserves at Antietam rather than risking them in battle | George B. McClellan
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| Union commander who decided that the best way to attack Lee's forces was to attack frontally uphill. | Ambrose Burnside
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| Union commander who bragged, "May God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none," and then lost his nerve in battle and gave away whatever advantage he might have had. | Joseph Hooker
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| He led the Confederate division that arrived just in time at the battle of Antietam. | A.P. Hill
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| This Union general was later court-martialed for not coming to help the main army at the battle of Second Bull Run | Fitz-John Porter
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| The only breakthrough that the Union soldiers made at Fredericksburg was against this man's position on Prospect Hill | Stonewall Jackson
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| He led the Confederate corps that was behind the stone wall at Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg | James Longstreet
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| He issued a declaration freeing slaves in South Carolina. Lincoln later revoked the declaration | David Hunter
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| He arrogantly told the Union army, "I come to you out of the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." | John Pope
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| He led the German-American corps in the Union army and they were completely surprised | Oliver O. Howard
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| Union general whose men were attacked first at Shiloh because he had refused to believe reports that the Confederates were approaching his army. | William Sherman
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| Union commander who held back his reserves at Antietam rather than risking them in battle | George B. McClellan
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| Although his men were surprised at Shiloh, he kept his cool and, with the help of the men under Buell, he was able to push the Confederates back on the second day. | Ulysses Grant
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| Union general who was placed in command after Lincoln removed Don Carlos Buell for having been so slow to follow up and attack the Confederates after they had invaded Kentucky. | William Rosecrans
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