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the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

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...

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

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...

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

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

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...

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...

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

these resources is what has kept a good deal of the people in poverty and misery(Suskind 2002). Most of the civil wars have come f...

been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the...

one would have to mix the chemicals and take charge of developing the photographs on the spot. The focusing and positioning of the...

how Presidential reconstruction was focused on rapid healing, and then discusses how Radical reconstruction was aimed at designing...

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

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

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...

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...