Re: Only for bears?

"Donna Richoux" <trio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1j6gc5x.1xmwe4gaum98aN%trio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Default User <defaultuserbr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

James Silverton wrote:

Don't the names of the battles reflect a North/South, USA/CSA
language division? I think the North used "Bull Run" and the South
"Manassas".

Yes. There are some others where the Confederacy preferred to name the
battle after a nearby town, and the Union after a landmark. Notably
Sharpsburg/Antietam and Pittsburg Landing/Shiloh.

"Landmark" is sort of a, well, dry term because they were waterways.

Antietam Creek is near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

Bull Run is a tributary of the Potomac River.

The "Army of the Potomac," the "Army of the Shenandoah," "of the Ohio"
-- the North was big on referring to river names.

Not all battles, though. Gettysburg and Vicksburg, among others, were
not rivers.


And then there is Appomattox:
The Surrender Meeting

After four years of war and over 630,000 casualties Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant met in the parlor of the McLean Home in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia and agreed to terms which would make reunification of the Nation possible.
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