Essays 331 - 360
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...
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...
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 ...
One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...
If a specific shot did not exist, he would create it; if the story was not that intriguing, he would fabricate it. In short, Gard...
In five pages the first important Civil War battle and its importance are analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
This 10 page paper discusses the way in which urban planning has transformed New York City since the end of the Civil War. The wri...
slavery and wanted to see it ended, he felt that he was quite literally on a mission from God-that he had been chosen to be the pe...
well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...
the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...
notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...
was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...
Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...
the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...
alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...
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...
a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...
he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...
the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...
mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...
we can talk about what is getting ready to explode right under our feet. I know that many of your cousins and friends are reading...
2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...
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...