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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...

point out that the subject of death and dying has taken on new meaning in recent times. There is now recognition of similar events...

that the colony would serve at least two purposes: the first to spread the Christian gospel in Africa, and the second to serve as...

In three pages US history from 1776 until the end of the Civil War in 1865 is examined in a consideration of events including the ...

The battle at hand is what is the focus of attention of this five page report that makes use of five references. The Battle of Get...

A 5 page overview of the book Howard Fast. The focus is on the reconstruction era. Although the slaves had been freed, black whi...

In five pages such issues that are relevant to slavery such as 1950's Fugitive Slave Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, abolitionism, ...

In 5 pages, this paper considers how the South won the Reconstruction despite the Northern victory in the Civil War, discussing st...

In five pages this paper examines the Civil War from the Confederate perspective with the use of Confederates in the Attic by Tony...

In six pages this paper examines the reasons why the U.S. Civil War was fought. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

thirty years prior to the outbreak of war, they were limited to a few heavily-populated urban areas. However, during the War, it ...

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

In nine pages this pivotal battle of the Civil War is examined in an overview of the events leading to it and a listing of officer...

as some type of punishment. According to Burkin (1999), the question of the black "freedmen" was also a thorny one. Some politic...

In five pages this paper compares Barbara Brackman's text and D.W. Griffith's film in terms of how each portrayed the Civil War. ...

was the enemy. Most Americans, when they think of the reasons for the Civil war, will name slavery as a major issue dividing th...

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

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 ...

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...

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....

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...