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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...

own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

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 ...

chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...

of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....

be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...

thirty years prior to the outbreak of war, they were limited to a few heavily-populated urban areas. However, during the War, it ...

out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...

to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say ...

would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...

The battle at hand is what is the focus of attention of this five page report that makes use of five references. The Battle of Get...

as some type of punishment. According to Burkin (1999), the question of the black "freedmen" was also a thorny one. Some politic...

was the enemy. Most Americans, when they think of the reasons for the Civil war, will name slavery as a major issue dividing th...

In nine pages this pivotal battle of the Civil War is examined in an overview of the events leading to it and a listing of officer...

time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...