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Essays 331 - 360
of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...
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...
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...
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...
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...
faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...
those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...
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 ...
is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...
of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...
proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...
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...
of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...
to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...
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...
to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...
construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...
maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...