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and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...

G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with 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...

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...

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...

in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost completely unaware that this position was anythin...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...