-They peeled off along both ridges of the crater. Which best describes why Lee would not simply come out and attack Grant to break the stalemate? -He was waiting for the rest of his army to arrive. -His men were tired and worn out from waiting.

What forced Lee to evacuate Richmond and Petersburg? Railroad lines were cut, which meant no more supplies. Sheridan was threatening his army’s rear after Shenandoah. The Union army set fire to Richmond as revenge for the war.

After his victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia moved north for a massive raid designed to obtain desperately needed supplies, to undermine civilian morale in the North, and to encourage anti-war elements.

In June 1863, Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia invaded the North in hopes of relieving pressure on war-torn Virginia, defeating the Union Army of the Potomac on Northern soil, and striking a decisive blow to Northern morale.

The answer is : The confederate because the arrows show the general was attacking from the west.

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Thousands of slaves served in support roles for the Army of Northern Virginia, and as Lee’s army marched north into Pennsylvania, they seized as many as 500 African-Americans—some former slaves, some free their entire lives—and brought them back to Virginia to be sold into slavery.

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Also known as “The cotton states,” the states we refer to as the “deep south” include South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

During and after the war Acting on the ordinance passed by the Jackson government, the Confederate Congress admitted Missouri as the 12th confederate state on November 28, 1861. The secessionist government continued in exile, eventually setting up a legislature in Marshall, Texas until the end of the war.