Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. In order to take the city, Union troops had ...

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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Generally speaking, Abraham Lincoln had a big problem during the Civil War ... many of his top generals didn’t get along. Between some of them it was so contemptuous ...