YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Our Fondness for the Civil War
Essays 271 - 300
of the problems both Union and Confederate armies faced on the home front. "Confederate soldiers left their wives -- and their mo...
"rank and stature in the Confederate command structure" (Hampton, 2002). Longstreet gave the Confederate Army exemplary service (...
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...
the War Between the States broke out, he rejoined the army, with the highlight being that he was given the command of Union Troops...
noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...
is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...
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...
of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
In five pages discord between citizens of the American north and south are considered and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville is used...
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...
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...
out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...
would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...
maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...
The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...
In this paper of six pages several important historical events such as the growth due to the Industrial Revolution, the twentieth ...
King Charles II, the quashing of remaining rebellions in Ireland and Scotland and the installation of parliamentarian Oliver Cromw...
In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...
and shift the direction of battles at almost every turn. Belle Boyd Boyd was perhaps one of the best known spies of her time....
not assumed principal position during this, the bloodiest fight of the entire American Civil War. "Lee hoped an invasion would fu...
In five pages the first important Civil War battle and its importance are analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
In seven pages this paper examines the role military intelligence played in the Civil War with the Gettysburg campaign the primary...