Progressive Jeopardy
... beginning the war was linked with slavery. As the war went on, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Though this did not immediately free any slaves, it paved the way for the end of slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation also changed the nature of the war, turning it into a war to stop slave ...
... beginning the war was linked with slavery. As the war went on, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Though this did not immediately free any slaves, it paved the way for the end of slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation also changed the nature of the war, turning it into a war to stop slave ...
General William T. Sherman: Total Warrior
... state that initiated the Civil War, Sherman and his troops seemed to take extra care to lay waste to the areas that they traveled through, with the most damage done to Columbia, as they burned it to the ground on February 17, 1865. The troops under Sherman did have to fight their way through Confede ...
... state that initiated the Civil War, Sherman and his troops seemed to take extra care to lay waste to the areas that they traveled through, with the most damage done to Columbia, as they burned it to the ground on February 17, 1865. The troops under Sherman did have to fight their way through Confede ...
Military History Anniversaries 0601 thru 061516
... Jun 10 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Miloševic agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. Jun 11 1775 – American Revolution: 1st Battle of Machias begins. The war's first naval battle. After 2 days the Unity (U.S.) manned by Patriot militia captures the schooner ...
... Jun 10 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Miloševic agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. Jun 11 1775 – American Revolution: 1st Battle of Machias begins. The war's first naval battle. After 2 days the Unity (U.S.) manned by Patriot militia captures the schooner ...
Military-History-Anniversaries-0601-thru
... Jun 10 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Miloševic agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. Jun 11 1775 – American Revolution: 1st Battle of Machias begins. The war's first naval battle. After 2 days the Unity (U.S.) manned by Patriot militia captures the schooner ...
... Jun 10 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Miloševic agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. Jun 11 1775 – American Revolution: 1st Battle of Machias begins. The war's first naval battle. After 2 days the Unity (U.S.) manned by Patriot militia captures the schooner ...
Uncivil War: Memory and Identity in the Reconstruction of the Civil
... into the simplest forms. As previously noted, though far from being different terms for the same concept, history and memory share a distinct relationship which goes back to the foundation upon which our contemporary understanding of the past originated. In Greek mythology Mnemosyne was the goddess ...
... into the simplest forms. As previously noted, though far from being different terms for the same concept, history and memory share a distinct relationship which goes back to the foundation upon which our contemporary understanding of the past originated. In Greek mythology Mnemosyne was the goddess ...
Untitled - TCU Digital Repository
... prevent vital supply and manpower transport from one bank to another, reducing the TransMississippi Theater to a detached region of the South powerless to influence the outcome of the war. As the Federal blockade tightened around southern ports, the European trade from Matamoras, Mexico into Texas b ...
... prevent vital supply and manpower transport from one bank to another, reducing the TransMississippi Theater to a detached region of the South powerless to influence the outcome of the war. As the Federal blockade tightened around southern ports, the European trade from Matamoras, Mexico into Texas b ...
A State Divided: A State Divided:
... sisters, and daughters were left to take care of the family and home. On page 18, Nancy Baird shares the stories of several Kentucky women who bravely kept the home fires burning during the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln was known for many things — his leadership throughout the most tumultuous ...
... sisters, and daughters were left to take care of the family and home. On page 18, Nancy Baird shares the stories of several Kentucky women who bravely kept the home fires burning during the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln was known for many things — his leadership throughout the most tumultuous ...
Lt. George E. Dixon
... The H.L. Hunley sank for the second time. This time, eight men were killed – including the Horace Hunley himself. He had forgotten to close the seacock – (a valve which is opened and closed to let water into a ballast tank. Ballast is the water that is allowed into the vessel, making the Hunley get ...
... The H.L. Hunley sank for the second time. This time, eight men were killed – including the Horace Hunley himself. He had forgotten to close the seacock – (a valve which is opened and closed to let water into a ballast tank. Ballast is the water that is allowed into the vessel, making the Hunley get ...
A MOST UNPLEASANT PART OF YOUR DUTIES: MILITARY
... were to be respected “as much as the exigencies of war will admit.”5 Martial law applied to all persons in an occupied area, whether or not they were subjects of the enemy and even if they were consuls. Recognizing the unique character of the conflict, Lieber included a section on rebellions and civ ...
... were to be respected “as much as the exigencies of war will admit.”5 Martial law applied to all persons in an occupied area, whether or not they were subjects of the enemy and even if they were consuls. Recognizing the unique character of the conflict, Lieber included a section on rebellions and civ ...
Sarah Emma Edmonds (Seelye):
... Washington Cemetery), where it could be cared for and decorated on Memorial days.” Civil War Preservation Trust Gifted Curriculum: Character and Leadership during the Civil War * www.civilwar.org * Edmonds 6 ...
... Washington Cemetery), where it could be cared for and decorated on Memorial days.” Civil War Preservation Trust Gifted Curriculum: Character and Leadership during the Civil War * www.civilwar.org * Edmonds 6 ...
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Tennessee Textbooks, 1889
... Lost Cause in textbooks. Only after identifying if the Lost Cause is present in textbooks, and in what areas of the Civil War material, can inaccurate information give way to the true history of the Civil War. In the absence of such information, the Lost Cause will continue to live on in American so ...
... Lost Cause in textbooks. Only after identifying if the Lost Cause is present in textbooks, and in what areas of the Civil War material, can inaccurate information give way to the true history of the Civil War. In the absence of such information, the Lost Cause will continue to live on in American so ...
The Best Field Trip Ever!
... opening our new Museum and Visitor Center in April of 2008, we are able to offer a wider array of student activities and itineraries, and we want this publication to help you make the best choices for your field trip and your students – based on the age, size and budget of your group, as well as the ...
... opening our new Museum and Visitor Center in April of 2008, we are able to offer a wider array of student activities and itineraries, and we want this publication to help you make the best choices for your field trip and your students – based on the age, size and budget of your group, as well as the ...
Soldiers of Long Odds: Confederate Operatives Combat the United
... internment camps such as Johnson’s Island, Camp Chase, Camp Morton and Camp Douglas allowed for selectivity in filling the ranks. What did limit Hines’s effectiveness in Canada, as well as in U.S. territory when operations commenced, was Richmond’s late May 1864 delegation of absolute authority over ...
... internment camps such as Johnson’s Island, Camp Chase, Camp Morton and Camp Douglas allowed for selectivity in filling the ranks. What did limit Hines’s effectiveness in Canada, as well as in U.S. territory when operations commenced, was Richmond’s late May 1864 delegation of absolute authority over ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Essay
... By Susan-Mary Grant, Newcastle University Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. may not have been one of the Civil War’s most memorable soldiers, but he became perhaps its most famous veteran. Twenty years after he left the Union army, he delivered an address on Memorial Day to the Union veterans’ organization ...
... By Susan-Mary Grant, Newcastle University Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. may not have been one of the Civil War’s most memorable soldiers, but he became perhaps its most famous veteran. Twenty years after he left the Union army, he delivered an address on Memorial Day to the Union veterans’ organization ...
... a half, yet much remains unfulfilled. When the African-American unemployment rate is twice that of White Americans, the promise of emancipation has yet to be fully realized. When AfricanAmericans make up almost half of our country’s prison population and are six times more likely than White American ...
Civil War Memories and “Pardnership Forgittin
... The IndianapolisAmerican Tribune, one of the nation’s most prominent GAR weekly newspapers, let its readers know whenever former rebels claimed too much for their lost cause. Rumors in 1892, for example, about a planned reunion of Union and Confederate veterans at the World’s Columbian Exposition in ...
... The IndianapolisAmerican Tribune, one of the nation’s most prominent GAR weekly newspapers, let its readers know whenever former rebels claimed too much for their lost cause. Rumors in 1892, for example, about a planned reunion of Union and Confederate veterans at the World’s Columbian Exposition in ...
You Can Have No Conflict Without Being Yourselves the Aggressors
... Seward evidently wished the motto of the administration to be, “The King reigns, but does not govern.”3 He told a European diplomat that there “exists no great difference between an elected president of the United States and a hereditary monarch. The latter is called to the throne through the accide ...
... Seward evidently wished the motto of the administration to be, “The King reigns, but does not govern.”3 He told a European diplomat that there “exists no great difference between an elected president of the United States and a hereditary monarch. The latter is called to the throne through the accide ...
George E. Pickett - Essential Civil War Curriculum
... would create,” Lee chided Pickett. Pickett, though, refused to file another formal report of Gettysburg. In the months that followed Gettysburg, Pickett descended into a downward spiral. He and his beloved Sallie married in September 1863 and that must have provided him with some solace. But his div ...
... would create,” Lee chided Pickett. Pickett, though, refused to file another formal report of Gettysburg. In the months that followed Gettysburg, Pickett descended into a downward spiral. He and his beloved Sallie married in September 1863 and that must have provided him with some solace. But his div ...
Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps
The Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps concerns both the actual stamps and covers used during the American Civil War, and the later postage celebrations. The latter include commemorative stamp issues devoted to the actual events and personalities of the war, as well as definitive issues depicting many noteworthy individuals who participated in the era's crucial developments.... the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience ... in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. While we are permitted to scorn nothing but indifference, and ... above all, we have learned that ... [in one's life work], the one and only success which it is [for each of us] to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart. -- Oliver Wendell HolmesThe American Civil War is one of the secular crises in American history that produced heroes. Societies venerate people and events of the past and present, and governments likewise use a variety of official mechanisms to honor them, including place names, architecture, currency, and postage stamps. Like other secular crises, the conflict grew from seeds planted a generation before, in this case during the Transcendental Awakening: a sudden change of societal values. Transcendental idealists became abolitionists. Romantic evangelicals became fire-eater secessionists. The lifetime achievements of outstanding individuals from the Civil War era, both elder leaders and younger participants, have been honored on stamps both in the United States and in foreign nations.