USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

KEY CIVIL WAR BATTLES IN 1862

[SOURCES]
The Union win at this battle caused the capital of Tennessee to be temporarily moved to Memphis.

(A) Shiloh

(B) Vicksburg

(C) Fort Henry & Donleson

(D) ** Nashville

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Battle of Fort Henry, American Civil War battle along the Tennessee River that helped the Union regain western and middle Tennessee as well as most of Kentucky.

Concept note-2: -The Battle of Nashville in the Civil War was a battle that started as an act of revenge. Lieutenant General John B. Hood of the Confederate Army had lost the Battle of Atlanta to the Union Army’s Major General William Tecumseh Sherman.

Concept note-3: -The Union victory at Nashville shattered Hood’s Army of Tennessee and effectively ended the war in Tennessee. Following Nashville, the fall of the Southern Confederacy was now only a matter of time. The Union victory at Nashville shattered Hood’s Army of Tennessee and effectively ended the war in Tennessee.

Concept note-4: -After much debate, with the Whig Party generally favoring Nashville and the Democratic Party generally in support of Murfreesboro’s claims, the general assembly chose Nashville as the permanent capital of Tennessee in 1843.