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fight an offensive war while other Confederate leaders preferred to fight defensively, forcing the Northern armies to come after t...

their way at a fast clip. The first men to arrive at the designated site took two days in their approach to Stafford Heights. Ge...

when he suspended individual liberties, and closed down anti-war and anti-administration newspapers (24). Not only did he do that,...

In nine pages the stories of Captain Sally and Dr. Mary Walker's spy activities are chronicled in this overview of the US Civil Wa...

the defense. Still, from these objectives flowed the strategy on each side (1990). It was an exciting, risky war and no one truly ...

In five pages this paper discusses America's pre and post Civil War sectionalism issues. Four sources are cited in the bibliograp...

In five pages this paper examines slave art and music during the years of the Civil War along with a consideration of family durin...

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

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...

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...

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

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...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

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...

to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...

In five pages this paper considers the Northern participation in the Civil War in a consideration of the 2.5 civilian volunteers i...

of Negroes were literate." Slavery had given few opportunities to develop initiative or to think independently. A writer for Harp...