YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :David Donald Why the North Won the Civil War
Essays 481 - 510
and shift the direction of battles at almost every turn. Belle Boyd Boyd was perhaps one of the best known spies of her time....
In seven pages this paper examines the role military intelligence played in the Civil War with the Gettysburg campaign the primary...
not assumed principal position during this, the bloodiest fight of the entire American Civil War. "Lee hoped an invasion would fu...
Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...
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...
in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...
well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...
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...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
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...
to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...
USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...
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...
boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...
was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...
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 ...
of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...
hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...
is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...
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...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...