Mosby`s Horse Artillery - Historic Fairfax City, Inc.
... By August 1864, the 60,000 or more men of the 11th, 12th, and 6th Corps that had been camped in and around Fairfax Court House were then gone with Grant’s army south of Richmond. Likewise, the troops of the Washington Defense Department headquartered at Fairfax Court House were much diminished in nu ...
... By August 1864, the 60,000 or more men of the 11th, 12th, and 6th Corps that had been camped in and around Fairfax Court House were then gone with Grant’s army south of Richmond. Likewise, the troops of the Washington Defense Department headquartered at Fairfax Court House were much diminished in nu ...
Rearguard of the Confederacy: The Second Florida Infantry Regiment
... their countrymen, filled with remorse for their fallen comrades, and baffled by the fact that they had lost. Defeat came as a surprise for them, even though they underwent great hardship during the last months of the war. A high esprit de corps held these men together, motivated them to continue to ...
... their countrymen, filled with remorse for their fallen comrades, and baffled by the fact that they had lost. Defeat came as a surprise for them, even though they underwent great hardship during the last months of the war. A high esprit de corps held these men together, motivated them to continue to ...
The Role Of Historic Novels in Understanding Desertion in the Civil
... “Truth” in historical novels does not always need to be true in the sense that the works correspond exactly to specific historical events. However, in order for these fictions to feel correct and to be respected as good sources of feeling and emotion of the time, they must carry some element of hist ...
... “Truth” in historical novels does not always need to be true in the sense that the works correspond exactly to specific historical events. However, in order for these fictions to feel correct and to be respected as good sources of feeling and emotion of the time, they must carry some element of hist ...
Lincoln Movie Study Guide-TEACHER COPY
... January 31, 1865: The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is passed, abolishing slavery. February 3, 1865: Confederate representatives Alexander Stephens, R.M.T. Hunter, John Archibald Campbell, meet Union representatives President Lincoln and Secretary of State Seward to negotiate ...
... January 31, 1865: The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is passed, abolishing slavery. February 3, 1865: Confederate representatives Alexander Stephens, R.M.T. Hunter, John Archibald Campbell, meet Union representatives President Lincoln and Secretary of State Seward to negotiate ...
Harriet Tubman: Civil War Spy
... former slave also served as a spy for the Union during the Civil War and was the first woman in American history to lead a military expedition? During a time when women were usually restricted to traditional roles like cooking and nursing, she did her share of those jobs. But she also worked side-by ...
... former slave also served as a spy for the Union during the Civil War and was the first woman in American history to lead a military expedition? During a time when women were usually restricted to traditional roles like cooking and nursing, she did her share of those jobs. But she also worked side-by ...
William C - Essential Civil War Curriculum
... others refused to offer an opinion, merely promising to support whatever decision Rosecrans made. Accounts vary as to Rosecrans’s determination to fight or retreat, but after a personal reconnaissance of his lines along with Major General David Sloane Stanley, Rosecrans determined to hold and give b ...
... others refused to offer an opinion, merely promising to support whatever decision Rosecrans made. Accounts vary as to Rosecrans’s determination to fight or retreat, but after a personal reconnaissance of his lines along with Major General David Sloane Stanley, Rosecrans determined to hold and give b ...
The Story of South Carolina`s Ordinance of Secession
... state did not then secede, the question remaining was less one of "if' than "when." The last popular vote in which secession was to any degree an open question was castat the general election of October 8,1860. The men eligible to vote in that canvass elected a strongly pro-secession General Assembl ...
... state did not then secede, the question remaining was less one of "if' than "when." The last popular vote in which secession was to any degree an open question was castat the general election of October 8,1860. The men eligible to vote in that canvass elected a strongly pro-secession General Assembl ...
“A Dowry of Suffering”: Consent, Contract, and
... romance and contract, consent and coercion, and the political and the literary. Illustrating the political service into which national reconciliation pressed literary narrative and genre, De Forest’s novel brought new legal and affective reality to the allegory of marital consent that had dominated c ...
... romance and contract, consent and coercion, and the political and the literary. Illustrating the political service into which national reconciliation pressed literary narrative and genre, De Forest’s novel brought new legal and affective reality to the allegory of marital consent that had dominated c ...
At Home and in the Field - Society for Women and the Civil War
... account of the preparation of dried meat and pemmican: "Having shot a buffalo, the hunters cut lumps of his flesh and slitting it up into flakes or layers, hang it up in the sun or before a slow fire to dry, and the fat can be dried as well as the lean. In this state it is often made into packs and ...
... account of the preparation of dried meat and pemmican: "Having shot a buffalo, the hunters cut lumps of his flesh and slitting it up into flakes or layers, hang it up in the sun or before a slow fire to dry, and the fat can be dried as well as the lean. In this state it is often made into packs and ...
How Lincoln Won the War with Metaphors
... is formal, precise, logical, but also stiff, cold, and abstract. Davis's wartime letters and speeches bristle with anger and bitterness toward Yankees and toward Davis's critics and adversaries within the Confederacy. But the few metaphors he used to illustrate his points are quite dead-references t ...
... is formal, precise, logical, but also stiff, cold, and abstract. Davis's wartime letters and speeches bristle with anger and bitterness toward Yankees and toward Davis's critics and adversaries within the Confederacy. But the few metaphors he used to illustrate his points are quite dead-references t ...
Encyclopedia Americana: Abraham Lincoln
... had an axe put into his hands at once; and from that till within his twenty-third year, he was almost constantly handling that most useful instrument--less, of course, in plowing and harvesting seasons." So, year by year the clearing grew, and the family's diet became more varied as farm products su ...
... had an axe put into his hands at once; and from that till within his twenty-third year, he was almost constantly handling that most useful instrument--less, of course, in plowing and harvesting seasons." So, year by year the clearing grew, and the family's diet became more varied as farm products su ...
Encyclopedia Americana: Abraham Lincoln
... had an axe put into his hands at once; and from that till within his twenty-third year, he was almost constantly handling that most useful instrument--less, of course, in plowing and harvesting seasons." So, year by year the clearing grew, and the family's diet became more varied as farm products su ...
... had an axe put into his hands at once; and from that till within his twenty-third year, he was almost constantly handling that most useful instrument--less, of course, in plowing and harvesting seasons." So, year by year the clearing grew, and the family's diet became more varied as farm products su ...
Florida`s Civil War soldiers - Scholar Commons
... The years leading up to 1860 saw the rise of the Republican Party and increasingly divisive conflicts with the Democratic Party. The Republicans held increasing sway in the North, while most of the South belonged to the Democrats. Floridians derided the Republicans as dangerous fanatics. Governor Ma ...
... The years leading up to 1860 saw the rise of the Republican Party and increasingly divisive conflicts with the Democratic Party. The Republicans held increasing sway in the North, while most of the South belonged to the Democrats. Floridians derided the Republicans as dangerous fanatics. Governor Ma ...
The Negative Impact of Jefferson Davis` Lack of Grand Strategy
... enough food later in the war. The laws that were being passed also played in bringing down the overall morale of the soldiers, as well as their loyalty to the Confederacy and their will to fight. The encompassment of these issues create, in part, a grand strategy, which Davis was lacking and therefo ...
... enough food later in the war. The laws that were being passed also played in bringing down the overall morale of the soldiers, as well as their loyalty to the Confederacy and their will to fight. The encompassment of these issues create, in part, a grand strategy, which Davis was lacking and therefo ...
Breakdown from within : Virginia railroads during the Civil
... Using extensive and primary secondary sources, the thesis argues that the Virginia General Assembly, the Confederate Government under Jefferson Davis, and the superintendents of Virginia's carriers inadequately utilized one of the state's, and subsequently, the Confederacy's, primary assets. This th ...
... Using extensive and primary secondary sources, the thesis argues that the Virginia General Assembly, the Confederate Government under Jefferson Davis, and the superintendents of Virginia's carriers inadequately utilized one of the state's, and subsequently, the Confederacy's, primary assets. This th ...
Competing Visions of America: The Fourth of July During the Civil
... advocacy of nationalism and patriotism within the Union. Through the emphasis placed on certain ideas during this holiday, the Northern perspective on the definition and essential attributes of America can be traced over the course of the war. Newspapers suggested that with the approach of the anniv ...
... advocacy of nationalism and patriotism within the Union. Through the emphasis placed on certain ideas during this holiday, the Northern perspective on the definition and essential attributes of America can be traced over the course of the war. Newspapers suggested that with the approach of the anniv ...
Unit 3 - Glencoe
... It would be impossible to exaggerate the impact of the Civil War on America. The 620,000 soldiers who lost their lives in that war constituted 2 percent of the American population. If the same percentage of Americans were to be killed in a war fought today, the number of American dead would be more ...
... It would be impossible to exaggerate the impact of the Civil War on America. The 620,000 soldiers who lost their lives in that war constituted 2 percent of the American population. If the same percentage of Americans were to be killed in a war fought today, the number of American dead would be more ...
What battle in the East is known as the “turning
... Lincoln told his cabinet, that Antietam wasn’t a decisive victory, but the Confederates had been driven out of Maryland. This was the closest that the Union armies in the East were to having a victory. This painting is titled “First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln.” Thi ...
... Lincoln told his cabinet, that Antietam wasn’t a decisive victory, but the Confederates had been driven out of Maryland. This was the closest that the Union armies in the East were to having a victory. This painting is titled “First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln.” Thi ...
THESIS CONFEDERATE MILITARY STRATEGY
... during the fall of 1862 and the winter of 1862-1863. While southerners refused to relinquish their firm grip on racial slavery, Union armies created multiple opportunities for enslaved blacks to access freedom. When blacks started to serve in the Union military, southern hatred of racial equality dr ...
... during the fall of 1862 and the winter of 1862-1863. While southerners refused to relinquish their firm grip on racial slavery, Union armies created multiple opportunities for enslaved blacks to access freedom. When blacks started to serve in the Union military, southern hatred of racial equality dr ...
Dethroning King Cotton: The Failed Diplomacy of the Confederacy
... of the cotton that they had in previous years28. Having caused internal chaos with the implementation of cotton diplomacy, the Confederacy was faced with a daunting reality: England and France would not save them from the devastating economic situation that the South had intended for the European po ...
... of the cotton that they had in previous years28. Having caused internal chaos with the implementation of cotton diplomacy, the Confederacy was faced with a daunting reality: England and France would not save them from the devastating economic situation that the South had intended for the European po ...
Lincoln and the Constitution - DigitalCommons@APUS
... outmanned Federals battled on for over thirty hours, surrendering only when they ran out of ammunition. Not a man on either side died. The Confederates allowed their opponents safe passage from the harbor and north to their homes. 5 The day after the surrender of Fort Sumter, Lincoln called for Cong ...
... outmanned Federals battled on for over thirty hours, surrendering only when they ran out of ammunition. Not a man on either side died. The Confederates allowed their opponents safe passage from the harbor and north to their homes. 5 The day after the surrender of Fort Sumter, Lincoln called for Cong ...
ECWC TOPIC Barton Clara Essay
... Washington train depot on the evening of April 19, 1861, following the deadly Baltimore riot, they were met by a group of local residents eager to help them. Among these was a 39-year-old patent clerk named Clara Barton, who recognized some of these men as former pupils from her earlier years as a M ...
... Washington train depot on the evening of April 19, 1861, following the deadly Baltimore riot, they were met by a group of local residents eager to help them. Among these was a 39-year-old patent clerk named Clara Barton, who recognized some of these men as former pupils from her earlier years as a M ...
Abraham Lincoln`s Understanding of the Nature
... to those areas where it is not already in place. In fact, Lincoln readily admits that he will do everything he constitutionally can to keep slavery out of those places. Everyone who voted in the election of 1860 was fully aware of this stance, and yet the Southern people still saw danger in Lincoln’ ...
... to those areas where it is not already in place. In fact, Lincoln readily admits that he will do everything he constitutionally can to keep slavery out of those places. Everyone who voted in the election of 1860 was fully aware of this stance, and yet the Southern people still saw danger in Lincoln’ ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON BLACK
... Douglass would never forget. On April 9, Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox. On April 14, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, and the next day, the president was dead. Starting on that day in Rochester, New York, and for decades to come (Douglass died in 1 ...
... Douglass would never forget. On April 9, Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox. On April 14, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, and the next day, the president was dead. Starting on that day in Rochester, New York, and for decades to come (Douglass died in 1 ...
McCLELLAN - National Paralegal College
... (including 97 percent of nation’s firearms) Far larger and more efficient railway system North had control of navy and merchant marine (allowing for blockade of South) Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman ...
... (including 97 percent of nation’s firearms) Far larger and more efficient railway system North had control of navy and merchant marine (allowing for blockade of South) Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman ...
Virginia in the American Civil War
The Commonwealth of Virginia was a prominent part of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. A slave state, a convention was called to act for the state during the secession crisis opened on February 13, 1861, after seven seceding states had formed the Confederacy on February 4. Unionist delegates dominated the convention and defeated a motion to secede on April 4. The convention deliberated for several months, but on April 15 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for troops from all states still in the Union in response to the Confederate capture of Fort Sumter. On April 17, the Virginia convention voted to declare secession from the Union, pending ratification of the decision by the voters.With the entry of Virginia into the Confederacy, a decision was made in May to move the Confederate capital from Montgomery, Alabama, to Richmond, in part because the defense of Virginia's capital was deemed strategically vital to the Confederacy's survival regardless of its political status. Virginians ratified the articles of secession on May 23. The following day, the Union army moved into northern Virginia and captured Alexandria without a fight.Most of the battles in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War took place in Virginia because the Confederacy had to defend its national capital at Richmond, and public opinion in the North demanded that the Union move ""On to Richmond!"" The remarkable success of Robert E. Lee in defending Richmond is a central theme of the military history of the war. The White House of the Confederacy, located a few blocks north of the State Capitol, was home to the family of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.