YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Look at Civil War Black Soldiers and Sailors
Essays 361 - 390
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...
book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...
from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...
to believe that he was the cause of the war (Caesar, 2007). He went so far as to offer to disband his army, provided Pompey did ...
cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...
or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...
had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...
they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...
adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...
the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
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...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...
life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...
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...
of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...
deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...
to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...
USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...
had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...
the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...
thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...