Essays 391 - 420
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...
repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...
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...
USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...
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...
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...
know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...
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...
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...
was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...
establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
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...
boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...
offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...
white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...
was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...
hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...