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Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...

"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

necessary institution but also as a just one. They took the stance that white slave owners were entitled to own slaves as a part o...

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...

square miles and Franklin County Pennsylvania encompasses approximately 772 square miles. Despite their similarity in size, howev...

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...

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 ...

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...

admittance was a critical one. At the time the scale was essentially balanced between those states that supported slavery and tho...

2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

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...

the War Between the States broke out, he rejoined the army, with the highlight being that he was given the command of Union Troops...

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...

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 ...

noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...