Essays 391 - 420
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...
the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...
the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...
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...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
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...
Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...
slaves to keep crops coming in. The North was very reliant on the Souths products and it was also more the hub of government, Brit...
John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...
Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...
in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...
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...
The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...
he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...
had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...
deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...
repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...
to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...
USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...
The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...
itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...
that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...
Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...