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of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...

In seven pages the U.S. Civil War's bloodiest conflict and its implications are examined. Nine sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In seven pages this paper examines the fall of Ft. Donelson, Tennessee in this consideration of the Civil War and how this along w...

in time between release of the hammer and the subsequent explosion, which resulted in inaccuracy (Reid 167). After a number of exp...

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...

The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

spent the first part of this life trying to conform. At the age of 32, he was still not openly gay. He said, "For me, coming out, ...

This research paper explores the topic of "hard war," which was authorized by Lincoln and implemented by Sherman in his March of t...

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

argues that "Common sense, the necessities of the war, to say nothing of the dictation of justice and humanity have at last prevai...

limited (Vasile The Union Soldier, His Life and Times: A Modern Interpretation of a 19th Century Experience). However, technologi...

In seven pages this paper examines the changes that occurred in medicine as a result of the U.S. civil war and how these changes i...