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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...

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...

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...

fight over possession of perceived value, but rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an init...

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

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

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...

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

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

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...

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...

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...

based on the regiments history, was a success and may indicate more greater in future. The student is facing a significant amount ...

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 ...

lived simply, many people were middle class as well. In the South the focus was on plantations, farming, and the people were essen...

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...