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well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

slavery and wanted to see it ended, he felt that he was quite literally on a mission from God-that he had been chosen to be the pe...

In five pages the first important Civil War battle and its importance are analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

This 10 page paper discusses the way in which urban planning has transformed New York City since the end of the Civil War. The wri...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...

in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost completely unaware that this position was anythin...

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

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...

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

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...

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...

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...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...