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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 ...

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

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...

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 ...

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...

the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...

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

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

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

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

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...

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

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

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

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

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...

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...

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

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...

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