Greenstein - Ch 6 LINCOLN 09 13 11 - University of Illinois Springfield
... then Illinois. In 1831, he struck out on his own, settling in the Illinois hamlet of New Salem, where he lived for six years, working as a postmaster, surveyor, and clerk in a general store. Lincoln was much admired by his neighbors for his honesty, amiability, and willingness to lend a hand when pe ...
... then Illinois. In 1831, he struck out on his own, settling in the Illinois hamlet of New Salem, where he lived for six years, working as a postmaster, surveyor, and clerk in a general store. Lincoln was much admired by his neighbors for his honesty, amiability, and willingness to lend a hand when pe ...
John Bennett Walters, Total War, and the Raid on
... a trail of burned houses, needless destruction of the necessities of life, and the wholesale theft of private property.” According to Walters, upon arriving in South Carolina, Sherman “resumed his campaign of terror on a more extensive scale.” Wherever Sherman went, Walters wrote, “wanton waste, ars ...
... a trail of burned houses, needless destruction of the necessities of life, and the wholesale theft of private property.” According to Walters, upon arriving in South Carolina, Sherman “resumed his campaign of terror on a more extensive scale.” Wherever Sherman went, Walters wrote, “wanton waste, ars ...
A Vigorous blockade at every point: The Union Blockade
... Geography and communications determined Wilmington's growth and importance. Wilmington had rail connections to both Charleston and Richmond, which linked it to two of the Confederacy's most important cities. Wilmington lay on the banks of the Cape Fear River, twenty miles from the river’s mouth and ...
... Geography and communications determined Wilmington's growth and importance. Wilmington had rail connections to both Charleston and Richmond, which linked it to two of the Confederacy's most important cities. Wilmington lay on the banks of the Cape Fear River, twenty miles from the river’s mouth and ...
Chapter 20—Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861
... a. Lincoln had ordered the fort reinforced with federal troops. b. Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort. c. the fort's commander was planning to evacuate his troops secretly from the fort. d. Lincoln had called for seventy-five thousand militia troops to form a voluntary Union army. e. sout ...
... a. Lincoln had ordered the fort reinforced with federal troops. b. Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort. c. the fort's commander was planning to evacuate his troops secretly from the fort. d. Lincoln had called for seventy-five thousand militia troops to form a voluntary Union army. e. sout ...
Chapter 20—Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861
... a. Lincoln had ordered the fort reinforced with federal troops. b. Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort. c. the fort's commander was planning to evacuate his troops secretly from the fort. d. Lincoln had called for seventy-five thousand militia troops to form a voluntary Union army. e. sout ...
... a. Lincoln had ordered the fort reinforced with federal troops. b. Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort. c. the fort's commander was planning to evacuate his troops secretly from the fort. d. Lincoln had called for seventy-five thousand militia troops to form a voluntary Union army. e. sout ...
Abraham Lincoln
... As Lincoln’s first term as president ended, the country still lay divided and at war. In what would later become a tradition of the American people not to switch leaders during wartime, the Republican Party nominated Lincoln for president in the 1864 election. Before his reelection, he would cautiou ...
... As Lincoln’s first term as president ended, the country still lay divided and at war. In what would later become a tradition of the American people not to switch leaders during wartime, the Republican Party nominated Lincoln for president in the 1864 election. Before his reelection, he would cautiou ...
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Tennessee Textbooks, 1889
... There has been countless research on children, analyzing how they learn and the best methods to use when teaching various subjects such as social studies. John W. Santrock finds that the early school years are when children are the most receptive to information and eager to learn.1 Consequently, ch ...
... There has been countless research on children, analyzing how they learn and the best methods to use when teaching various subjects such as social studies. John W. Santrock finds that the early school years are when children are the most receptive to information and eager to learn.1 Consequently, ch ...
America at Mid-19th Century: Abolition, Civil War, Emancipation
... thousands saw them as a way to help resolve their own feelings about a nation divided into a cultural landscape in which there was no right or wrong. Did the Constitution prevail on such a contentious issue as slavery, or did the “better angels of our nature” prevail? In 2011 the United States recog ...
... thousands saw them as a way to help resolve their own feelings about a nation divided into a cultural landscape in which there was no right or wrong. Did the Constitution prevail on such a contentious issue as slavery, or did the “better angels of our nature” prevail? In 2011 the United States recog ...
Encyclopedia Americana: Abraham Lincoln
... mostly by people from the South. But conditions remained primitive, and farming was backbreaking work. Superstitions were prevalent; social functions consisted of such utilitarian amusements as corn shuckings, house raisings, and hog killings; and religion was dogmatic and emotional. Abe, growing ta ...
... mostly by people from the South. But conditions remained primitive, and farming was backbreaking work. Superstitions were prevalent; social functions consisted of such utilitarian amusements as corn shuckings, house raisings, and hog killings; and religion was dogmatic and emotional. Abe, growing ta ...
Encyclopedia Americana: Abraham Lincoln
... mostly by people from the South. But conditions remained primitive, and farming was backbreaking work. Superstitions were prevalent; social functions consisted of such utilitarian amusements as corn shuckings, house raisings, and hog killings; and religion was dogmatic and emotional. Abe, growing ta ...
... mostly by people from the South. But conditions remained primitive, and farming was backbreaking work. Superstitions were prevalent; social functions consisted of such utilitarian amusements as corn shuckings, house raisings, and hog killings; and religion was dogmatic and emotional. Abe, growing ta ...
Biographies - Civil War Trust
... traded cotton yarn and shoes made in the hospital for fresh vegetables, fruit, chickens, and eggs – giving soldiers the first decent food they’d had in a while. In April 1865, when Union troops were soon to occupy Richmond, ill and wounded patients left any way they could to escape capture by the Ya ...
... traded cotton yarn and shoes made in the hospital for fresh vegetables, fruit, chickens, and eggs – giving soldiers the first decent food they’d had in a while. In April 1865, when Union troops were soon to occupy Richmond, ill and wounded patients left any way they could to escape capture by the Ya ...
Fifth Grade Lesson - NC Historic Sites
... describe the battle, the Harper family, and slavery in Bentonville. The Battle of Bentonville By March 8, 1865, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s entire 60,000 man Union army had crossed into North Carolina after devastating South Carolina in February. Sherman’s army was in the second half of his ...
... describe the battle, the Harper family, and slavery in Bentonville. The Battle of Bentonville By March 8, 1865, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s entire 60,000 man Union army had crossed into North Carolina after devastating South Carolina in February. Sherman’s army was in the second half of his ...
McCLELLAN - National Paralegal College
... mainly agricultural country where most people had relatively low cash incomes Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman ...
... mainly agricultural country where most people had relatively low cash incomes Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman ...
South Carolina in the American Civil War
South Carolina was a site of a major political and military importance for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. The white population of the state strongly supported the institution of slavery long before the war. Political leaders such as John C. Calhoun and Preston Brooks had inflamed regional (and national) passions, and for years before the eventual start of the Civil War in 1861, voices cried for secession.The Civil War began in South Carolina. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to declare its secession from the Union. The first shots of the Civil War (January 9, 1861) were fired in Charleston by its Citadel cadets upon a civilian merchant ship, the Star of the West, bringing supplies to the beleaguered U.S. garrison at Fort Sumter. The April 1861 bombardment of Fort Sumter by South Carolina forces under the command of General Beauregard—the Confederacy did not yet have a functioning army—is commonly taken as the beginning of the war.South Carolina was a source of troops for the Confederate army, and as the war progressed, also for the Union, as thousands of ex-slaves flocked to join the Union forces. The state also provided uniforms, textiles, food, and war material, as well as trained soldiers and leaders from The Citadel and other military schools. In contrast to most other Confederate states, South Carolina had a well-developed rail network linking all of its major cities without a break of gauge. Relatively free from Union occupation until the very end of the war, South Carolina hosted a number of prisoner of war camps. South Carolina also was the only Southern state not to harbor pockets of anti-secessionist fervor strong enough to send large amounts of white men to fight for the Union, as every other state in the Confederacy did.Among the leading generals from the Palmetto State were Wade Hampton III, one of the Confederacy's leading cavalrymen, Maxcy Gregg, killed in action at Fredericksburg, Joseph B. Kershaw, whose South Carolina infantry brigade saw some of the hardest fighting of the Army of Northern Virginia and James Longstreet who served in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee and in the Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton Bragg.