Guide to the Fort Monroe Telegrams, 1862
... telegrams offer a unique look into Union operations in southeastern Virginia in early 1862 before the famous Battle of Hampton Roads. The first telegram, 34 lines, was most likely from General John Wool, commanding officer at Fort Monroe at the time, to General George McClellan, commander-in-chief o ...
... telegrams offer a unique look into Union operations in southeastern Virginia in early 1862 before the famous Battle of Hampton Roads. The first telegram, 34 lines, was most likely from General John Wool, commanding officer at Fort Monroe at the time, to General George McClellan, commander-in-chief o ...
EXHIBIT GUIDE FOR TEACHERS - National Civil War Museum
... 11.) GETTYSBURG was the turning point of the war in the East. One video program presents a vivid picture of Civil War battles; two others show how the artillery and infantry loaded and fired their weapons. A huge mural depicts oncoming Confederates and a life-size diorama places you in the midst of ...
... 11.) GETTYSBURG was the turning point of the war in the East. One video program presents a vivid picture of Civil War battles; two others show how the artillery and infantry loaded and fired their weapons. A huge mural depicts oncoming Confederates and a life-size diorama places you in the midst of ...
the emancipation proclamation
... • When Lincoln sent a naval expedition to resupply Sumter with food, the South opened fire on the fort on April 12, before the ships arrived • Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort 34 hours later ...
... • When Lincoln sent a naval expedition to resupply Sumter with food, the South opened fire on the fort on April 12, before the ships arrived • Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort 34 hours later ...
Gettysburg and Mr
... we may come from many states, we are one nation and always will be one nation. Southern soldier: I fight against the Northerners who try to impose their will on the South, telling us that we have to put an end to slavery, telling us that we cannot live our lives the way that we wish. Narrator 1: The ...
... we may come from many states, we are one nation and always will be one nation. Southern soldier: I fight against the Northerners who try to impose their will on the South, telling us that we have to put an end to slavery, telling us that we cannot live our lives the way that we wish. Narrator 1: The ...
Union Generals - Ulster Scots Community Network
... that McDowell had to be replaced. Lincoln moved quickly and decisively. In the very early hours of 22 July (the morning after the battle) a telegram was sent to George Brinton McClellan in western Virginia with orders to come to Washington and to take command of what would become the Army of the Pot ...
... that McDowell had to be replaced. Lincoln moved quickly and decisively. In the very early hours of 22 July (the morning after the battle) a telegram was sent to George Brinton McClellan in western Virginia with orders to come to Washington and to take command of what would become the Army of the Pot ...
Chapter 21 A Divided Nation
... how the country would either be one or fall, it would not survive divided. -Stephen Douglas was his opponent in the Senate race. Douglass thought that the country could go on fine divided on the issue. So they debated the issue. -Lincoln/Douglass Debate. Douglass said that the Dred Scott case put th ...
... how the country would either be one or fall, it would not survive divided. -Stephen Douglas was his opponent in the Senate race. Douglass thought that the country could go on fine divided on the issue. So they debated the issue. -Lincoln/Douglass Debate. Douglass said that the Dred Scott case put th ...
Battle of Hanover - Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce
... Battle of Hanover One of the reasons why General Robert E. Lee failed to gain victory at Gettysburg might have been the unplanned encounter at Hanover. Lee was depending on Major General J.E.B. Stuart to supply him with information about the position of General George G. Meade’s Union army. Meanwhil ...
... Battle of Hanover One of the reasons why General Robert E. Lee failed to gain victory at Gettysburg might have been the unplanned encounter at Hanover. Lee was depending on Major General J.E.B. Stuart to supply him with information about the position of General George G. Meade’s Union army. Meanwhil ...
The Ox Hill Battlefield Park Audio Tour Script Male Voice:
... the Union Army called the Battle of Chantilly. It took place at a critical time in the Civil War, between two of the war’s most famous and memorialized battles – two days after Second Manassas and 16 days before Antietam. Although the battle was waged across about 500 acres, the heaviest combat took ...
... the Union Army called the Battle of Chantilly. It took place at a critical time in the Civil War, between two of the war’s most famous and memorialized battles – two days after Second Manassas and 16 days before Antietam. Although the battle was waged across about 500 acres, the heaviest combat took ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest - Teach Tennessee History
... the fortifications and movements of Union troops. There was also a sealed letter in his boot from E. Coleman to General Bragg. Because of the documents found on Davis, he was charged with being a courier of mails and as a spy. General Dodge felt as if the information contained within the papers coul ...
... the fortifications and movements of Union troops. There was also a sealed letter in his boot from E. Coleman to General Bragg. Because of the documents found on Davis, he was charged with being a courier of mails and as a spy. General Dodge felt as if the information contained within the papers coul ...
Imagine you are a soldier in the Army of Tennessee. It is December
... Brogans: Soldiers despised army-issue brogans...they tended to fit poorly and be of low quality. These shoes were massproduced in a time when a pair of shoes from home might be made by a local shoemaker. The soles were thin and were either hand sewn, machine sewn or pegged with wooden nails. The reg ...
... Brogans: Soldiers despised army-issue brogans...they tended to fit poorly and be of low quality. These shoes were massproduced in a time when a pair of shoes from home might be made by a local shoemaker. The soles were thin and were either hand sewn, machine sewn or pegged with wooden nails. The reg ...
SCV 25-6 - Major Robert M. White Camp #1250
... car to school because it had a bumper sticker with the words “Rebel Cheerleader” on top of a Confederate Battleflag. The girl, M’Kayla Meyer of Buda has driven to school in the car with the sticker for two years. The district bans any display of Confederate flags. ...
... car to school because it had a bumper sticker with the words “Rebel Cheerleader” on top of a Confederate Battleflag. The girl, M’Kayla Meyer of Buda has driven to school in the car with the sticker for two years. The district bans any display of Confederate flags. ...
Reconstruction1strevised choice
... have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” ...
... have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” ...
Part 2 – Reconstruction - Ms. Ferrari`s AP US HISTORY
... basis for court decisions upholding civil rights in the 20th century. 14. African Americans during and after the Reconstruction Era Southern plantation owners continued to own the majority of the region’s land even after Reconstruction. Former slaves sought land ownership but generally fell short of ...
... basis for court decisions upholding civil rights in the 20th century. 14. African Americans during and after the Reconstruction Era Southern plantation owners continued to own the majority of the region’s land even after Reconstruction. Former slaves sought land ownership but generally fell short of ...
Slavery - Family Guardian
... French, Spanish, and Germans. In the early colonies of America whites were regularly sold as permanent slaves. If it were justifiable, whites would be much more justified in having a chip on their shoulder or a pity party over slavery than blacks, because more of their white ancestors were slave ...
... French, Spanish, and Germans. In the early colonies of America whites were regularly sold as permanent slaves. If it were justifiable, whites would be much more justified in having a chip on their shoulder or a pity party over slavery than blacks, because more of their white ancestors were slave ...
Last Full Measure of Devotion - The Gilder Lehrman Institute of
... both slave and free. As historian Drew Gilpin Faust has demonstrated, mid-nineteenth century Americans, steeped in Christian worldviews, believed that a person should have a “good death,” one witnessed by family members, recorded in a narrative of peaceful departure and Christian acceptance, perhaps ...
... both slave and free. As historian Drew Gilpin Faust has demonstrated, mid-nineteenth century Americans, steeped in Christian worldviews, believed that a person should have a “good death,” one witnessed by family members, recorded in a narrative of peaceful departure and Christian acceptance, perhaps ...
Last Full Measure of Devotion
... both slave and free. As historian Drew Gilpin Faust has demonstrated, mid-nineteenth century Americans, steeped in Christian worldviews, believed that a person should have a “good death,” one witnessed by family members, recorded in a narrative of peaceful departure and Christian acceptance, perhaps ...
... both slave and free. As historian Drew Gilpin Faust has demonstrated, mid-nineteenth century Americans, steeped in Christian worldviews, believed that a person should have a “good death,” one witnessed by family members, recorded in a narrative of peaceful departure and Christian acceptance, perhaps ...
recto - UNT Digital Library
... votes for Douglas and Bell demonstrated that almost 78 percent of the county voted against sectional candidates. Rockingham still endorsed a Democratic candidate, but voters' interest in preserving the Union allowed John Bell to best the other Democrat on the ballot. Voting against sectionalism requ ...
... votes for Douglas and Bell demonstrated that almost 78 percent of the county voted against sectional candidates. Rockingham still endorsed a Democratic candidate, but voters' interest in preserving the Union allowed John Bell to best the other Democrat on the ballot. Voting against sectionalism requ ...
ROI, Leadership, and the Civil War - John Bryer
... Lee was virtually surrounded by Hooker’s much larger Union Army Lee could have savored victory and withdrawn to fight another day Against all military logic, Lee split his troops in the face of a numerically superior enemy – a bold, decisive maneuver ...
... Lee was virtually surrounded by Hooker’s much larger Union Army Lee could have savored victory and withdrawn to fight another day Against all military logic, Lee split his troops in the face of a numerically superior enemy – a bold, decisive maneuver ...
Study Guide
... (What were their political goals? What did they believe about slavery?) 2. How did the split platform of the Democratic party lead to Lincoln's victory in 1860? What does the difference between the popular vote and the Electoral College vote say about Lincoln's victory? 3. What is secession? Why did ...
... (What were their political goals? What did they believe about slavery?) 2. How did the split platform of the Democratic party lead to Lincoln's victory in 1860? What does the difference between the popular vote and the Electoral College vote say about Lincoln's victory? 3. What is secession? Why did ...
Study Guide for Civil War Test
... (What were their political goals? What did they believe about slavery?) 2. How did the split platform of the Democratic party lead to Lincoln's victory in 1860? What does the difference between the popular vote and the Electoral College vote say about Lincoln's victory? 3. What is secession? Why did ...
... (What were their political goals? What did they believe about slavery?) 2. How did the split platform of the Democratic party lead to Lincoln's victory in 1860? What does the difference between the popular vote and the Electoral College vote say about Lincoln's victory? 3. What is secession? Why did ...
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.