YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Why the South Lost the Civil War
Essays 241 - 270
about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...
mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...
choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...
terms of unions is being fudged, and there is the domination of much of the business environment in the country by opaque clans. L...
War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...
to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...
made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...
book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...
prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...
because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...
defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...
In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...
John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...
The result is that people living in the immediate area perhaps are more open than most to street festivals, free concerts, craft f...
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...
he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...
of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...
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...
Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...
in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...
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...
well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...
1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...
the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...