Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks
... Otherwise, I divided the shipwrecks in this book into geographic location by state, country, or body of water, as seemed most logical to me. Because rivers meander over the years and are often dividing lines for states, I often list shipwrecks in river sections, since it is sometimes unclear in wh ...
... Otherwise, I divided the shipwrecks in this book into geographic location by state, country, or body of water, as seemed most logical to me. Because rivers meander over the years and are often dividing lines for states, I often list shipwrecks in river sections, since it is sometimes unclear in wh ...
civil war web - Web Sources for Military History
... The Internet is moving Civil War research—indeed, all historical research—into an entirely new dimension. That has not always been the case. In its early years the World Wide Web offered very little that working Civil War historians could reliably use to penetrate the past. That situation is dramati ...
... The Internet is moving Civil War research—indeed, all historical research—into an entirely new dimension. That has not always been the case. In its early years the World Wide Web offered very little that working Civil War historians could reliably use to penetrate the past. That situation is dramati ...
Dividing and Unifying: The Response to the Emancipation Proclamation, by Aaron Raschke
... was a conservative document that was intended to ease the North into the idea of all the slaves being free without actually freeing many slaves. Lincoln believed emancipation of the slaves was important to winning the war and in the Emancipation Proclamation he relayed that message to the general pu ...
... was a conservative document that was intended to ease the North into the idea of all the slaves being free without actually freeing many slaves. Lincoln believed emancipation of the slaves was important to winning the war and in the Emancipation Proclamation he relayed that message to the general pu ...
"Or this whole affair is a failure": a special treasury agent`s
... York. They sailed towards their new home and workstation of Beaufort, South Carolina. Located amongst the Sea Islands of the South Carolina Lowcountry just north of the Georgia border, these islands were occupied by a joint Federal Navy-Army force on November 7, 1861. On this April day, Severance fo ...
... York. They sailed towards their new home and workstation of Beaufort, South Carolina. Located amongst the Sea Islands of the South Carolina Lowcountry just north of the Georgia border, these islands were occupied by a joint Federal Navy-Army force on November 7, 1861. On this April day, Severance fo ...
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... would last only until the first major battle of the war at Bull Run, in which Union troops were driven from the field in ignominious defeat. 20 Roddy and other Democrats blamed this humiliation on the Lincoln Administration's having underestimated the strength and leadership of the rebel army. Local ...
... would last only until the first major battle of the war at Bull Run, in which Union troops were driven from the field in ignominious defeat. 20 Roddy and other Democrats blamed this humiliation on the Lincoln Administration's having underestimated the strength and leadership of the rebel army. Local ...
The Emancipation Proclamation - Home
... either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.” 5 (Abraham Lincoln, August, 1862). ...
... either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.” 5 (Abraham Lincoln, August, 1862). ...
History 202 Meeting of Minds Character Questions - Linn
... the war came, and how Hancock chose the North. How did Armistead feel about leaving his friend Hancock to fight on the other side? Tell us about the pledge they made not to fight against each other in the war if possible. Then, I'll move to Armistead's career during the war--what were the major bat ...
... the war came, and how Hancock chose the North. How did Armistead feel about leaving his friend Hancock to fight on the other side? Tell us about the pledge they made not to fight against each other in the war if possible. Then, I'll move to Armistead's career during the war--what were the major bat ...
the First Battle of Bull Run and its Impact on Connecticut
... W.A. Croffut and John M. Morris and Connecticut for the Union: the Role of the State in the Civil War (1965) by John Niven. Both works look at Connecticut’s participation militarily, on the home front, and politically throughout the war’s entirety. Because both sources cover such a wide period of t ...
... W.A. Croffut and John M. Morris and Connecticut for the Union: the Role of the State in the Civil War (1965) by John Niven. Both works look at Connecticut’s participation militarily, on the home front, and politically throughout the war’s entirety. Because both sources cover such a wide period of t ...
The Commander-in-Chief and the Constitution: Ian Lawrence
... a lack of conviction. When Buchanan was Secretary of State under James K. Polk in the late 1840s, his presidential predecessor described him as being an -able man...but in small matters without judgment [who] sometimes acts like an old maid."" Other observers of Buchanan, however, remarked that the ...
... a lack of conviction. When Buchanan was Secretary of State under James K. Polk in the late 1840s, his presidential predecessor described him as being an -able man...but in small matters without judgment [who] sometimes acts like an old maid."" Other observers of Buchanan, however, remarked that the ...
Honors Thesis - Emory University
... discussing how the seceded states would successfully break away from the North and cement their independence. Southerners knew that European recognition, particularly by Britain and France, would be essential to the security of the Confederate nation. Most Southerners, including Confederate Presiden ...
... discussing how the seceded states would successfully break away from the North and cement their independence. Southerners knew that European recognition, particularly by Britain and France, would be essential to the security of the Confederate nation. Most Southerners, including Confederate Presiden ...
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 ...
South Carolina in the American Civil War
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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.