Essays 331 - 360
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...
of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...
had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...
those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...
The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...
establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...
General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...
was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...
defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...
would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...
In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...
the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...
prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...
because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...
have any solid answer. The following paper examines reasons why the South lost, and focuses on the fact that it likely lost due to...
is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...
The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...
construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...
maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...