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defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

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...

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

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...

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

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...

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...

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

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...

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...