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US Civil War and the Gatling Gun

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

Confederate Black Soldiers

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

The Commandant of the Andersonville Confederate Prison Camp Henry Wirz

Henry Wirz, an American Civil War criminal, is evaluated as to the truth of his criminality. Was he a scapegoat? Many details are ...

Reconstruction Policies Following the U.S. Civil War

In twelve pages this paper discusses the Reconstruction policies of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson for after the Ci...

Failed Reconstruction Following the US Civil War

two was difficult. Healing did not come quickly or easily. Hatred between the two entities continued to exist. The South did no...

Foreign Affairs During the Civil War

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

Colonization, Economic Development, Geographical Distinctions and the American Civil War

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

Major Issues and Debates Leading to the American Civil War

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

Canada's Independent Streak

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

Causes of War

causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...

Accomplishments of US Grant

The accomplishments of Ulysses S. Grant are celebrated in five pages with the Civil War and slavery among the issues discussed. F...

A Century of Chaos and Corruption During the Roman Civil Wars

http://webpages.marshall.edu/ ~lloydc/RomCivWars.html). The armies of the Senate ultimately overtook Tiberius, killing the leader...

Florida and Education Prior to and Following the U.S. Civil War

In five pages education in Florida during the nineteenth century is examined in terms of the implications of social, economic, and...

Spanish Civil War and Internalization

In five pages this paper examines the Spanish Civil War in a consideration of ideological internalizations and how various faction...

Race Relations, Slavery, and the U.S. Civil War

In twenty five pages this paper examines the slavery and race issues that culminated in the U.S. Civil War and examines the Jim Cr...

African American Military Regiments During the US Civil War

In eight pages this report discusses the nearly 200,000 African American soldiers that fought during the US Civil War after Presid...

Investigating the Civil War Causes

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

'Angel of the Battlefield' Clara Barton

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

Political Influences on Salvador Dali

that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...

Civil War and Reconstruction Social Welfare Programs

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

U.S. Civil War Outcome and the Role of Weapons

and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...

Civil War Changes in North and South Politics and Society

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...

Long and Short Term Causes of the English Civil War

The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...

Ethical Issues Associated with the Period from the 'New World' Settlement Until the U.S. Civil War

itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...

Post U.S. Civil War Immigration

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

Investment Banker Jay Cooke

In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...

American Attitude Foundations

appointed to non-elected stations. Winthrop was certain that God had made a covenant with the settlers and that the world would b...

U.S. Civil War and Abraham Lincoln

Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

New Yorkers Walt Whitman, Frederick Law Olmsted and the NYC Military's Contributions

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...