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Essays 331 - 360
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...
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...
repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...
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...
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...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
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...
in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...
Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...
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...
well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...
were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...
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...
of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....
out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...
would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...
to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say ...
chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...
offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...
a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...
was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...
also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...
sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...
is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...