The Battle of Antietam
... The biggest cause for confusion during the Battle of Antietam would not have to do with any troop movements or unit fighting, but by McClellan’s own positioning during the battle. McClellan would position his headquarters at the farm house of Phillip Pry. This observation station was almost two mile ...
... The biggest cause for confusion during the Battle of Antietam would not have to do with any troop movements or unit fighting, but by McClellan’s own positioning during the battle. McClellan would position his headquarters at the farm house of Phillip Pry. This observation station was almost two mile ...
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... issue for the first time. • Many northern Democrats and Whigs opposed the spread of slavery. • They did not speak up because they did not want to lose southern votes. Also, they feared the slavery issue would split the nation. • In 1848, antislavery members of both parties formed the Free-Soil party ...
... issue for the first time. • Many northern Democrats and Whigs opposed the spread of slavery. • They did not speak up because they did not want to lose southern votes. Also, they feared the slavery issue would split the nation. • In 1848, antislavery members of both parties formed the Free-Soil party ...
Economic Activity Following the Civil War Indexed by Postal Money
... were higher in the former Union than Confederacy (Appendix D and F). The only exception is the period 1883-1889, where the dollar value of orders issued in the former Confederacy was about equal to or greater than in the former Union ( Appendix F). (3) On a non per capita basis, the numbers of order ...
... were higher in the former Union than Confederacy (Appendix D and F). The only exception is the period 1883-1889, where the dollar value of orders issued in the former Confederacy was about equal to or greater than in the former Union ( Appendix F). (3) On a non per capita basis, the numbers of order ...
The Emancipation Proclamation
... A. It freed over 8 million slaves immediately. B. It informed European nations that the war was now a holy war for freedom. C. It forced the Confederacy into the position of fighting a war specifically to preserve slavery. D. It announced that African Americans would be allowed to enlist in the Unio ...
... A. It freed over 8 million slaves immediately. B. It informed European nations that the war was now a holy war for freedom. C. It forced the Confederacy into the position of fighting a war specifically to preserve slavery. D. It announced that African Americans would be allowed to enlist in the Unio ...
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... full of biblical metaphors and allusions, he avoided the temptation to demonize the South and to make the war a religious crusade. Throughout the 7 years from the House Divided speech to his assassination in 1865, Lincoln’s is one of the masterpieces of political framing that combined shrewdness and ...
... full of biblical metaphors and allusions, he avoided the temptation to demonize the South and to make the war a religious crusade. Throughout the 7 years from the House Divided speech to his assassination in 1865, Lincoln’s is one of the masterpieces of political framing that combined shrewdness and ...
When Albany Challenged The President
... protest the case, which they believed was a “crime against the Constitution.” People arrived in droves, and by 8 p.m. on May 18 the broad walk leading to the Capitol steps and the adjacent grounds was packed with citizens. Although unable to attend the public meeting, New York’s Democratic Governor ...
... protest the case, which they believed was a “crime against the Constitution.” People arrived in droves, and by 8 p.m. on May 18 the broad walk leading to the Capitol steps and the adjacent grounds was packed with citizens. Although unable to attend the public meeting, New York’s Democratic Governor ...
confederate historical association of belgium
... Lee immediately earned Grant’s respect. The Battle of the Wilderness on May 6-7 provided a rude awakening for “unconditional surrender” Grant, who was not accustomed to stalemate on the battlefield. The battle’s indecisive result and substantial casualties looked and smelled enough like defeat for G ...
... Lee immediately earned Grant’s respect. The Battle of the Wilderness on May 6-7 provided a rude awakening for “unconditional surrender” Grant, who was not accustomed to stalemate on the battlefield. The battle’s indecisive result and substantial casualties looked and smelled enough like defeat for G ...
Twenty Good Reasons to Study the Civil War
... who are the most vivid in our memories now—Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and many others North and South—and who are also now part of our collective American memory. They were not all men. For e ...
... who are the most vivid in our memories now—Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and many others North and South—and who are also now part of our collective American memory. They were not all men. For e ...
2011.10 Choctaw Nation and the American Civil War
... the Choctaws. These units would engage in skirmishes and battles around eastern Indian Territory as well as Missouri and Arkansas. They were included within Albert Pike’s Indian Brigade in 1861, which was later commanded by Cooper in 1862. 1862 saw the Choctaws just miss the Pea Ridge Campaign in no ...
... the Choctaws. These units would engage in skirmishes and battles around eastern Indian Territory as well as Missouri and Arkansas. They were included within Albert Pike’s Indian Brigade in 1861, which was later commanded by Cooper in 1862. 1862 saw the Choctaws just miss the Pea Ridge Campaign in no ...
Nationalism and Internationalism in the Era of the Civil War
... Jörg Nagler: One of the great opportunities made available by studying the American Civil War from a transnational and/or global perspective is the chance to de-provincialize one of the central events in American history, put it into new contexts and see connections we have neglected. Antebellum Ame ...
... Jörg Nagler: One of the great opportunities made available by studying the American Civil War from a transnational and/or global perspective is the chance to de-provincialize one of the central events in American history, put it into new contexts and see connections we have neglected. Antebellum Ame ...
File - The Election of 1860
... This document states the secession of Mississippi. This document is similar to a list of reasons explaining why they are seceding. They state some things the North has done to anger them. They have denied the right of property of slaves, not allowed new slave states into the union, ignored the Fugit ...
... This document states the secession of Mississippi. This document is similar to a list of reasons explaining why they are seceding. They state some things the North has done to anger them. They have denied the right of property of slaves, not allowed new slave states into the union, ignored the Fugit ...
For or Against Slavery? What were the different points of view?
... Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many came because it was the right thing to do. This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you'll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. ...
... Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many came because it was the right thing to do. This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you'll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. ...
How the Enemies of Reconstruction Created Reconstruction Edward
... main characters seem to come and go. After a dramatic cameo as the villain, even Andrew Johnson seems to fade away and Thaddeus Stevens dies halfway through. The Radical Republicans, the carpetbaggers, the scalawags, despite their evocative nicknames, remain largely faceless and nameless. The story ...
... main characters seem to come and go. After a dramatic cameo as the villain, even Andrew Johnson seems to fade away and Thaddeus Stevens dies halfway through. The Radical Republicans, the carpetbaggers, the scalawags, despite their evocative nicknames, remain largely faceless and nameless. The story ...
Economics - Deptford Township Schools
... guarantees under the Bill of Rights are suspended. • Suspended the writ of habeas corpus, which protects people from unlawful imprisonment, to ensure loyalty to the Union • Created a national currency, called greenbacks. This paper money was not backed by gold, but it was declared to be acceptable a ...
... guarantees under the Bill of Rights are suspended. • Suspended the writ of habeas corpus, which protects people from unlawful imprisonment, to ensure loyalty to the Union • Created a national currency, called greenbacks. This paper money was not backed by gold, but it was declared to be acceptable a ...
the ideologies and allegiances of Civil War soldiers in
... Studies of smaller groups of soldiers within the South are not limited to pockets of Unionist sentiment in southern Appalachia, Atlanta, or Texas. Joseph Glatthaar’s 2008 Civil War History article, “Everyman’s War: A Rich and Poor Man’s Fight in Lee’s Army,” again narrows the scope, in this case fro ...
... Studies of smaller groups of soldiers within the South are not limited to pockets of Unionist sentiment in southern Appalachia, Atlanta, or Texas. Joseph Glatthaar’s 2008 Civil War History article, “Everyman’s War: A Rich and Poor Man’s Fight in Lee’s Army,” again narrows the scope, in this case fro ...
Border states (American Civil War)
In the context of the American Civil War, the border states were slave states that had not declared a secession from the Union (the ones that did so later joined the Confederacy). Four slave states had never declared a secession: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Four others did not declare secession until after the Battle of Fort Sumter: Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia—after which, they were less frequently called ""border states"". Also included as a border state during the war is West Virginia, which broke away from Virginia and became a new state in the Union in 1863.In the border states there was widespread concern with military coercion of the Confederacy. Many if not a majority were definitely oppoised to it. When Abraham Lincoln called for troops to march south to recapture Fort Sumter and other national possessions, southern Unionists were dismayed. Secessionists in Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia were successful in getting those states to secede from the U.S. and to join the Confederate States of America.In Kentucky and Missouri, there were both pro-Confederate and pro-Union governments. West Virginia was formed in 1862-63 by unionists the northwestern counties of Virginia then occupied by the Union Army and set up a loyalist (""restored"") state government of Virginia. Lincoln recognized this government and allowed them to divide the state. Though every slave state except South Carolina contributed white battalions to both the Union and Confederate armies (South Carolina Unionists fought in units from other Union states),the split was most severe in these border states. Sometimes men from the same family fought on opposite sides. About 170,000 Border state men (including African Americans) fought in the Union Army and 86,000 in the Confederate ArmyBesides formal combat between regular armies, the border region saw large-scale guerrilla warfare and numerous violent raids, feuds, and assassinations. Violence was especially severe in eastern Kentucky and western Missouri. The single bloodiest episode was the 1863 Lawrence Massacre in Kansas, in which at least 150 civilian men and boys were killed. It was launched in retaliation for an earlier, smaller raid into Missouri by Union men from Kansas.With geographic, social, political, and economic connections to both the North and the South, the border states were critical to the outcome of the war. They are considered still to delineate the cultural border that separates the North from the South. Reconstruction, as directed by Congress, did not apply to the border states because they never seceded from the Union. They did undergo their own process of readjustment and political realignment after passage of amendments abolishing slavery and granting citizenship and the right to vote to freedmen. After 1880 most of these jurisdictions were dominated by white Democrats, who passed laws to impose the Jim Crow system of legal segregation and second-class citizenship for blacks, although the freedmen and other blacks were allowed to continue to vote.Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to the border states. Of the states that were exempted from the Proclamation, Maryland (1864),Missouri (1865),Tennessee (1865), and West Virginia (1865) abolished slavery before the war ended. However, Delaware and Kentucky did not abolish slavery until December 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified.