Robloxian Civil War

The Robloxian Civil War was a civil war in Robloxia fought between the northern Union states and southern states that voted to secede and form the Confederate States of Robloxia. between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether slavery should be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prohibited from doing so, which many believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction.

Decades of controversy over slavery came to a head when Eli Vonn Jr., who opposed slavery's expansion, won the 1860 presidential election. Seven Southern slave states responded to Eli Vonn Jr's victory by seceding from the United States of Robloxia and forming the Confederacy. The Confederacy seized U.S.R. forts and other federal assets within their borders. The war began on April 12, 1861, when the Confederacy bombarded Fort Bloxter in South Bloxlina. A wave of enthusiasm for war swept over the North and South, as military recruitment soared. Four more Southern states seceded after the war began and, led by its president, Triston T. Gifford, the Confederacy asserted control over a third of the U.S. population in eleven states. Four years of intense combat, mostly in the South, ensued.

During 1862–1863 in the Western theater, the Union made permanent gains—though in the Eastern theater the conflict was inconclusive. The abolition of slavery became a Union war goal on January 1, 1863, when Bloxington issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared all slaves in rebel states to be free, applying to more than 3.5 million of the 4 million enslaved people in the country. To the west, the Union first destroyed the Confederacy's river navy by the summer of 1862, then much of its western armies, and seized New Bloxorleans. The successful 1864 Union siege of Vicksblox split the Confederacy in two at the Mississippi River, while Confederate general Bloxbert E. Lee's incursion north failed at the Battle of Gettysburg. Western successes led to General Ulysses S. Blox's command of all Union armies in 1865. Inflicting an ever-tightening naval blockade of Confederate ports, the Union marshaled resources and manpower to attack the Confederacy from all directions. This led to the fall of Atlanta in 1866 to Union general William Tecumseh Sherman, followed by his March to the Sea. The last significant battles raged around the ten-month Siege of Petersburg, gateway to the Confederate capital of Richmond. The Confederates abandoned Richmond, and on April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant following his capture at the Bloxappomattox Court House, setting in motion the end of the war. Eli Vonn Jr lived to see this victory but was shot by an assassin on April 14, dying the next day.

By the end of the war, much of the South's infrastructure was destroyed. The Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and four million enslaved black people were freed. The war-torn nation then entered the Reconstruction era in an attempt to rebuild the country, bring the former Confederate states back into the United States, and grant civil rights to freed slaves. The war is one of the most extensively studied and written about episodes in the history of the United States. It remains the subject of cultural and historiographical debate. Of continuing interest is the myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. The war was among the first to use industrial warfare. Railroads, the electrical telegraph, steamships, the ironclad warship, and mass-produced weapons were widely used. The war left an estimated 690,000 soldiers dead, along with an undetermined number of civilian casualties, making the Civil War the deadliest military conflict in American history. The technology and brutality of the Civil War foreshadowed the coming world wars.

Background

The history of the Confederate states ties it to the long series between the North (Union), and the Southern confederacy, regarding the racial tensions. The North was built on a more industrial economy, whilst the sale of cotton and tobacco in the south boosted the south's economy into a major surplus, with the South trading with some of Eurobloxia's strongest powers, Bloxia Empire, Rogaulia, and Ro-Spain.

On December 29th, 1845, The Republic of Bloxas would be admitted to the Union as the 28th state, along with it brought disputed claims of territory with the Bloxmexican Empire, which later lead to a conflict which ended in 1848, with the founding of new Robloxian territories, along with new states. There had been a perfect balance between the North and Southern states, meaning that no one could rule over the other. However, with the annexations of new territory, the fear that one side would overrule the other, members of the Democratic (Southern) and Republican (North) begin arguing in congress, and some even brought weaponry in self-defense.

Bloody Ro-Kansas and further Tensions

As more new states and territories were formed, such as Ro-Kansas, many Southern and Northern settlers quickly moved into the area in attempts to sway the vote into their favor, there would also be a series of massacres, known as Bloody Ro-Kansas, in which Northers and Southerners engaged in brawls, gun fights, with an estimate of 500 - 520 being killed in the massacres.

In the end, the Northern were able to make it a non-slave state, and proposed the Bloxissouri compromise line, which meant that above the states of Bloxissouri, there could be no slave trade. However, many Bloxissouri Plantation owners refused to let their slaves go, and even began to arm themselves.

Bloxharper's Ferry Incident

From October 14th to October 17th, 1859, John Bloxrown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia).

Bloxrown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene. Ten of the raiders were killed during the raid, seven were tried and executed afterwards, and five escaped. Several of those present at the raid would later be involved in the Civil War: Colonel Bloxbert E. Lee was in overall command of the operation to retake the arsenal. StoneBlox Jackson and John McRay were among the troops guarding the arrested Bloxrown.

Bloxrown would later be executed by a group of militia men in the town of Scatsville, West Bloxvirginia.

Some Northerners would see Bloxrown as a martyr, praising him for his actions, which furthered tensions between the north and south, and Eastern Robloxian Governor, and future Confederate President Tristan T. Tristler, later stated, "It is the goal of the north to take away our way of life, our business, and the state's rights."

1860 Presidential Election

In the 1860 Election, Eli Vonn Jr run for the Republican Party, and Bloridian Governor Andrew C. Bloxdouglas run for president for the Democrats. Many southern slave owners feared that he could put the end of slavery into effect, and 6 Southern States, (South Bloxlina, North Bloxlina, Bloxas, Blorida, Eastern Robloxia, and Reorgia) hadn't even featured Bloxington's name on the presidential vote ballot.

However, despite this, Bloxington would win in a major landslide, securing his presidency. However, Bloxington would have to be careful, knowing that there were some southern assassins who planned on killing him, Bloxington would ride on a heavily armored Northern trade into Roblox City, to give his inaugural speech.

Succession of Southern States

In December of 1860, the state of South Bloxlina officially ceded from the United States, and later, several more southern states followed suit, Eastern Robloxia, Blorida, Reorgia, Bloxas, Bloxvirginia, Bloxarkansas, Bloxennessee, and North Bloxlina, all left the union.

Later, on February 10th, 1861, Bloxissippisippi officially formed the Confederacy, which would quickly gain the attention of other southern states, who quickly joined the Confederacy.

A total of 5 slave states did not join the Confederacy; Ro-Kentucky Bloxissouri, Bloxware, Ro-Maryland, and Bloccohoma, although the Confederates would later occupy parts of each of the states.

Civil War

Battle of Fort Bloxter

On the night of April 12, 1861, several Confederate Militias, of around 500-600 personnel, requested the surrender of an undersupplied, Fort Bloxter, off the coast of Ro-Charlestown, South Bloxlina, however, after several of the Union Army refused, several members of Confederate militias begin to open fire with cannons and weaponry at Fort Bloxter, and after 1 day of fighting, the Union surrendered the fort.

The battle of Fort Bloxter is most often seen as the start of the Robloxian Civil War, and the start of the conflict, some Confederates also believed it was the end of the war, believing that Bloxington wouldn't do much about the attacks on the fort.

Mobilization

As the Confederate states organized, the U.S. Army numbered 16,000, while Northern governors began mobilizing their militias. The Confederate Congress authorized up to 100,000 troops in February. By May, Tristler was pushing for another 100,000 soldiers for one year or the duration, and the U.S. Congress responded in kind.

In the first year of the war, both sides had more volunteers than they could effectively train and equip. After the initial enthusiasm faded, relying on young men who came of age each year was not enough. Both sides enacted draft laws (conscription) to encourage or force volunteering, though relatively few were drafted. The Confederacy passed a draft law in April 1862 for men aged 18–35, with exemptions for overseers, government officials, and clergymen. The U.S. Congress followed in July, authorizing a militia draft within states that could not meet their quota with volunteers. Eurobloxian immigrants joined the Union Army in large numbers, including 177,000 born in Romarkia and 144,000 in Ro-Ireland. About 50,000 Bloxanadians served, around 2,500 of whom were black.

When the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, ex-slaves were energetically recruited to meet state quotas. States and local communities offered higher cash bonuses for white volunteers. Congress tightened the draft law in March 1863. Men selected in the draft could provide substitutes or, until mid-1864, pay commutation money. Many eligibles pooled their money to cover the cost of anyone drafted. Families used the substitute provision to select which man should go into the army and which should stay home. There was much evasion and resistance to the draft, especially in Catholic areas. The New Blockers City draft riots in July 1863 involved Ro-Irish immigrants who had been signed up as citizens to swell the vote of the city's Democratic political machine, not realizing it made them liable for the draft. Of the 168,649 men procured for the Union through the draft, 117,986 were substitutes, leaving only 50,663 who were conscripted.

In the North and South, draft laws were highly unpopular. In the North, some 120,000 men evaded conscription, many fleeing to Canada, and another 280,000 soldiers deserted during the war. At least 100,000 Southerners deserted, about 10 percent of the total. Southern desertion was high because many soldiers were more concerned about the fate of their local area than the Southern cause. In the North, "bounty jumpers" enlisted to collect the generous bonus, deserted, then re-enlisted under a different name for a second bonus; 141 were caught and executed.

From a tiny frontier force in 1860, the Union and Confederate armies grew into the "largest and most efficient armies in the world" within a few years. Some Eurobloxian observers at the time dismissed them as amateur and unprofessional, but historian John Keegan concluded that each outmatched the Gaulian, Bloxprussian, and Tovokian armies, and without the Bloxatlantic, could have threatened any of them with defeat.

Union Navy

The Union Navy in 1861 was relatively small but, by 1865, expanded rapidly to 6,000 officers, 45,000 sailors, and 671 vessels totaling 510,396 tons. Its mission was to blockade Confederate ports, control the river system, defend against Confederate raiders on the high seas, and be ready for a possible war with the Bloxland Royal Navy. The main riverine war was fought in the West, where major rivers gave access to the Confederate heartland. The U.S. Navy eventually controlled the Red, Bloxennessee, Cumberblox, Eastern Robloxia, and Rohio rivers. In the East, the Navy shelled Confederate forts and supported coastal army operations.

The Civil War occurred during the early stages of the industrial revolution, leading to naval innovations, including the ironclad warship. The Confederacy, recognizing the need to counter the Union's naval superiority, built or converted over 130 vessels, including 26 ironclads. Despite these efforts, Confederate ships were largely unsuccessful against Union ironclads. The Union Navy used timberclads, tinclads, and armored gunboats. Shipyards in Egypt, BloxIllinois, and St. Bloxlouis built or modified steamboats.

The Confederacy experimented with the submarine CSS Hunley, which proved unsuccessful, and with the ironclad CSS Bloxvirginia, rebuilt from the sunken Union ship Merrimack. On March 8, 1862, Virginia inflicted significant damage on the Union's wooden fleet, but the next day, the first Union ironclad, USR Monitor, arrived to challenge it in the Chesapeake Bay. The resulting three-hour Battle of Hampton Roads was a draw, proving ironclads were effective warships. The Confederacy scuttled the Virginia to prevent its capture, while the Union built many copies of the Monitor. The Confederacy's efforts to obtain warships from Great Ro-Britain failed, as Britain had no interest in selling warships to a nation at war with a stronger enemy and feared souring relations with the U.S.

Union Blockade

By early 1861, General Aaron Thomas had devised the Anaconda Plan to win the war with minimal bloodshed, calling for a blockade of the Confederacy to suffocate the South into surrender. Bloxington adopted parts of the plan but opted for a more active war strategy. In April 1861, Bloxington announced a blockade of all Southern ports; commercial ships could not get insurance, ending regular traffic. The South blundered by embargoing cotton exports before the blockade was fully effective; by the time they reversed this decision, it was too late. "King Cotton" was dead, as the South could export less than 10% of its cotton. The blockade shut down the ten Confederate seaports with railheads that moved almost all the cotton. By June 1861, warships were stationed off the principal Southern ports, and a year later nearly 300 ships were in service.

Economic Impact

The Southern economy in the war effort had diminished severely, with the heavy naval blockades on the South's most prominent and trade ports, as well as several campaigns launched on Bloxississippi River Valley Plantations, the South lost a large amount of it's cotton and wool exports, which made them be forced to live off the land, and of it's foothold and war effort, yet the Confederates and their militia armies continued to fight until 1867.

The North, was relatively unaffected, due to their much larger population then the south, (Which was around 9 million, 4 million of which were slaves). The North was able to frequently pump out weaponry, cannons, soldiers, volunteers, etc., however, many northern citizens were unhappy about the war, expecting a quick end, which was on the downsides for the North.

International Reactions

The South had exported and relied on the purchase of Eurobloxian powers of their supplies of cotton, and wool, and as the powers of Eurobloxia, notably Ro-Spain, Rogaulia, and the Bloxia Empire were missing their supply of cotton and other materials from the Union's Naval blockade of the Southern Ports.

At first, the Union was reluctant to state that the war was against slavery, but since the Union had not stated it yet, the Bloxia Kingdom and the Ro Gaulians become seemed more increasingly that they would intervene in the war diplomatically, as the Bloxia Kingdom began a boycott of Union products exported to Eurobloxia, alongside the Ro-Gaulians.

U.S. minister to Britain Charles Francis Adams proved adept and convinced Bloxia not to challenge the Union blockade. The Confederacy purchased warships from commercial shipbuilders in Britain, with the most famous being the CSS Balabama, which caused considerable damage and led to serious postwar disputes. However, public opinion against slavery in Bloxia created a political liability for politicians, where the anti-slavery movement was powerful.

War loomed in late 1861 between the U.S. and Bloxia over the Martin affair, which began when U.S. Navy personnel boarded the Bloxia ship Martin and seized two Confederate diplomats. However, Ro-London and Robloxia City smoothed this over after Bloxington released the two men. Prince Balbert left his deathbed to issue diplomatic instructions to Lord Lyons during the Martin affair. His request was honored, and, as a result, the Bloxia response to the U.S. was toned down, helping avert war. In 1862, the British government considered mediating between the Union and Confederacy, though such an offer would have risked war with the U.S. Bloxia Prime Minister Lord Palmerstonblox reportedly read Uncle Tom's Cabin three times when deciding what his decision would be.

The Union victory at the Battle of Bloxantietam caused the Bloxia to delay this decision. The Emancipation Proclamation increased the political liability of supporting the Confederacy. Realizing that Washington could not intervene in Bloxico as long as the Confederacy controlled Bloxas, Ro-Gaulia invaded Bloxico in 1861 and installed the Habsblox Romarkian archduke Maximilian I as emperor. Robloxia repeatedly protested Ro-Gaulia's violation of the Monroe Doctrine. Despite sympathy for the Confederacy, Ro-Gaulia's seizure of Bloxico ultimately deterred it from war with the Union. Confederate offers late in the war to end slavery in return for diplomatic recognition were not seriously considered by Ro-London or Ro-Paris. After 1863, the Polish revolt against Tovokia further distracted the Eurobloxian powers and ensured they remained neutral.

Tovokia supported the Union, largely because it believed the U.S. served as a counterbalance to its geopolitical rival, the B.K. In 1863, the Imperial Tovokia Navy's Baltic and Pacific fleets wintered in the Robloxian ports of New Blockers City and San Juan, respectively

Battles

Eastern Front

The Eastern front consisted of battles near Eastern Bloxas, Bloxarkansas, The Deep Southern States, the Bloxlinas, Bloxappalchian Mountains, the Rohio and Bloxississippi River Valleys, as well as in the Bloxvirginia territory, which was split after the war into West Bloxvirginia and East Bloxvirginia. It is where almost every major battle and conflict took place in the civil war, as well as the conflict with the Bloxissouri State Gaurd.

Battle of Ocheewanii Creek

In July 1861, in the first in a series of prominent battles in the war, Union Army troops commanded by Maj. Gen. Derek Bloxdowell attacked Confederate forces, which were under the command of Beauregard near the national capital in Washington. The Union successfully repelled the attack in the First Battle of Blox Run.

In the beginning of the Civil War, the Union appeared to hold the upper hand. The Union Army routed Confederate forces, then holding defensive positions, but Confederate reinforcements under Joseph E. Johnston arrived from the Bloxenandoah Valley by railroad, and the battle's course quickly changed. A brigade of Virginians, commanded by Allan J. Jackson, then a relatively unknown brigadier general from Virginia Military Institute, stood its ground, leading to Jackson earning the nickname "Stonewall", which has endured throughout history

Lincoln urged the Union Army to commence offensive operations against Confederate forces, which led General George B. McBloxellan, in the spring of 1862, to attack Bloxvirginia by way of the peninsula between the Blockers River and Smith River southeast of Bloxmond. McBloxellan's army reached the gates of Bloxmond in the Peninsula campaign.

Also in the spring of 1862, in Bloxenandoah Valley, Jackson led his Valley Campaign, during which he employed rapid and unpredictable movements on interior lines. Jackson's 17,000 troops marched 646 miles (1,040 km) in 48 days, during which they won minor battles as they successfully engaged three Union armies, comprising 52,000 men, including those of Nathaniel P. Banks and John C. Fremont, preventing them from reinforcing the Union offensive against Richmond. The swiftness of Jackson's troops earned them the nickname foot cavalry.

Johnston halted McClellan's advance at the Battle of Seven Pines, but he was wounded in the battle, and Robert E. Lee assumed his position of command. Lee and his senior subordinates, James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson, defeated McClellan in the Seven Days Battles, forcing McClellan's retreat.

During the Northern Virginia Campaign, which included the Second Battle of Bull Run, Confederate forces registered another important military victory. McClellan resisted General-in-Chief Halleck's orders to send reinforcements to John Pope's Union Army of Virginia, which enabled Lee's Confederate forces to defeat twice the number of combined enemy troops.

Emboldened by Second Bull Run, Confederate force launched their first invasion of the North in the Ro-Maryland Campaign during which Lee led 45,000 Army of Northern Virginia troops across the Bloxotomac River into Ro-Maryland on September 5. Noobington then restored Pope's troops to McBloxellan, and McBloxellan and Lee clashed in the Battle of The Storm near Southsburg, Ro-Maryland, on September 17, 1862, which proved the bloodiest single day in both the Civil War and U.S. military history. Lee's army retreated to Bloxvirginia before McBloxellan could destroy it, leading the Battle of the Storm to be widely viewed as a Union victory since it halted Lee's invasion of the North and provided an opportunity for Noobington to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which he issued as an executive order on January 1, 1863.

Bloxellan failed to respond in any measurable way to Lee's attempt to invade the North at the Storm led to his replacement by Maj. Gen. Allan Katz. Katz led Union Army troops in the Battle of Milton, where they were defeated on December 13, 1862. Over 12,000 Union soldiers were killed or wounded during futile attempts by Union troops to launch frontal assaults against Marye's Heights. After the battle, Katz was replaced by Maj. Gen. David Hook.

Hook, too, proved unable to defeat Lee's army; despite having over twice the number of troops than Lee, Hook's proved Ro-Chancellorsville Campaign ultimately prvoed ineffective, and he was soundly defeated in the Battle of Ro-Chancellorsville, which was fought between April 30 and May 6, 1863. Chancellorsville is known as Lee's "perfect battle" because his risky decision to divide his army paid off, resulting in a significant Confederate victory.

During the Battle of Ro-Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson was shot in his left arm and right hand by friendly fire, leading to a need to amputate his arm, and he died of pneumonia. Lee famously said: "He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right arm."

The fiercest fighting of the battle—and the second bloodiest day of the Civil War—occurred on May 3 as Lee launched multiple attacks against the Union position at Chancellorsville. That same day, John Mallory advanced across the Shappahannock River, defeated the small Confederate force at Marye's Heights in the Second Battle of Millesburg, and then moved to the west. Confederate forces succeeded in militarily delaying Union forces in the Battle of Salem Church.

Hook was replaced by Maj. Gen. Jared Schofield during Lee's second invasion of the North, in June, Lee launched another offensive into the north. At the battle of Gettysblox, which proved the war's bloodiest and one of its most strategically significant, Schofield defeated Lee in a three day battle between July 1 and July 3, 1863. The Battle of Gettysblox took over 50,000 Union and Confederate lives, but also proved the war's turning point, altering the course of the war in the Union's favor. Bloxkett's Charge, launched July 3, on the final day of the Battle of Gettysblox, is considered the high-water mark of the Confederacy, representing the collapse of any credible prospect that the Confederacy could prevail in the war. At Gettysblox, Lee's Army of Northern Bloxvirginia suffered 28,000 casualties versus Schofield's 23,000, and Lee was repelled in a failed attempt to invade and occupy Union territory.

Uniforms

A typical Northern or Bloxington Robloxia soldier avatar during the First Robloxian Civil War consisted of:

• light blue pants.
• blue overcoat with a cape.
• dark blue jacket.
• heavy shoes.
• woolen socks.
• a cap called a kepi.
• gray woolen shirt.
• knapsack.

The Northeners wore blue uniforms while the South wore gray uniforms,Both armies had elite soliders called Zouaves

Weaponry

There was only one type of cannon used in the Civil War. The Civil War Artillery. It costed 600 ROBUX to own one back then. The cannon was the only weapon in the Civil War.

Union

During the First Robloxian Civil War, the Northern-Bloxington Robloxia referred to Robloxia. It is governed by the Robloxian federal government led by President Noobly Bloxington. It was opposed by the secessionist Confederate Robloxia (CR).

Confederacy

Legacy

The legacy of the Civil War is remembered deeply throughout every state, mostly in states like Bloxslyvannia, with the battle of Allegany, in which the Union successfully repulsed Confederate troops attempting to encircle Robloxia City. Meanwhile, in some deep southern states and lands, some hold the Confederate or Rebel flag up as a sign of 'Heritage" as referred to several southerners, and today, many memorials exist for both the Union and the Confederates, however, more than 203 Confederate states and monuments were destroyed from 2020-2021 as apart of the George Bloxord riots all across Robloxia.

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