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... and best commander we have," General McClellan. 22 Ulysses S. Grant's victories at Fort Donelson and at Shiloh early in 1862 had sent the western Confederate armies reeling and raised the hope among many northerners that one bold stroke from McClellan would capture Richmond and end the Rebellion. Un ...
... and best commander we have," General McClellan. 22 Ulysses S. Grant's victories at Fort Donelson and at Shiloh early in 1862 had sent the western Confederate armies reeling and raised the hope among many northerners that one bold stroke from McClellan would capture Richmond and end the Rebellion. Un ...
Competing Visions of America: The Fourth of July During the Civil
... national symbols behind political culture and provided motivation and identification for the country.1 In this approach, Proctor borrowed from anthropological theories. The author of one such theory, Clifford Geertz, explained that culture consists of webs of significance; it is both a product and a ...
... national symbols behind political culture and provided motivation and identification for the country.1 In this approach, Proctor borrowed from anthropological theories. The author of one such theory, Clifford Geertz, explained that culture consists of webs of significance; it is both a product and a ...
Hawai`i at Home During the American Civil War
... The only member of the American consular staff who refused the oath of allegiance when requested by the Union late in 1861 was Hilo consul Thomas Miller. Miller wrote Secretary of State W. H. Seward saying although “attached to the Union” and wishing to see it preserved, he could not sign a statemen ...
... The only member of the American consular staff who refused the oath of allegiance when requested by the Union late in 1861 was Hilo consul Thomas Miller. Miller wrote Secretary of State W. H. Seward saying although “attached to the Union” and wishing to see it preserved, he could not sign a statemen ...
Civil War Lesson #7: Effects of the Civil War
... Now that students have an understanding of the varied effects of the Civil War, they will move to making interpretations about the war’s impact. Distribute the Effects of the Civil War Chart (CW7.3) and tell them that they will be making larger interpretations (or drawing larger conclusions) about t ...
... Now that students have an understanding of the varied effects of the Civil War, they will move to making interpretations about the war’s impact. Distribute the Effects of the Civil War Chart (CW7.3) and tell them that they will be making larger interpretations (or drawing larger conclusions) about t ...
Study Guide - Cengage Learning
... Selected Civil War Battles and Campaigns, 1863–1865 (cont’d from previous page) Year ...
... Selected Civil War Battles and Campaigns, 1863–1865 (cont’d from previous page) Year ...
Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1861–1865
... Confederacy, Davis became convinced that emancipation was a partial means to that end. Although he faced serious opposition on the issue, Davis pushed and prodded the Confederacy toward emancipation, but his actions came too late to aid the Confederate cause. The experience of war also changed the i ...
... Confederacy, Davis became convinced that emancipation was a partial means to that end. Although he faced serious opposition on the issue, Davis pushed and prodded the Confederacy toward emancipation, but his actions came too late to aid the Confederate cause. The experience of war also changed the i ...
Harpers Weekly Reports Events of 1865
... Image caption: “Explosion of the steamer ‘Sultana’ April 28, 1865.” This was the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history. The Sultana had been used on several occasions during the Civil War to transport Union troops on the Mississippi. It was approved to carry 376 persons including her crew. The boa ...
... Image caption: “Explosion of the steamer ‘Sultana’ April 28, 1865.” This was the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history. The Sultana had been used on several occasions during the Civil War to transport Union troops on the Mississippi. It was approved to carry 376 persons including her crew. The boa ...
The American Civil War`s Western Theater Part 01
... LEQ: Of what Union general did President Lincoln say, “I can’t spare this man– he fights?” ...
... LEQ: Of what Union general did President Lincoln say, “I can’t spare this man– he fights?” ...
LEQ: Of what Union general did President Lincoln
... Union line. His boot covered up the wound, and it appeared that in the excitement, he didn’t know that he was wounded. He finally began to faint from loss of blood. His officers could not find the wound and he bled to death. A simple tourniquet could have saved his life. This photograph is courtesy ...
... Union line. His boot covered up the wound, and it appeared that in the excitement, he didn’t know that he was wounded. He finally began to faint from loss of blood. His officers could not find the wound and he bled to death. A simple tourniquet could have saved his life. This photograph is courtesy ...
Gettysburg: an exhibit for the First
... The Foreign Observer on the Ground to be crossed by Pickett's Division Arthur Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States: April-June, 1863. New York: John Bradburn, 1864. --Fremantle, an experienced soldier, surveyed the ground with Lee's and Longstreet's staff, recording the distance to be cro ...
... The Foreign Observer on the Ground to be crossed by Pickett's Division Arthur Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States: April-June, 1863. New York: John Bradburn, 1864. --Fremantle, an experienced soldier, surveyed the ground with Lee's and Longstreet's staff, recording the distance to be cro ...
The American Civil War`s Eastern Theater (Part 1
... The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863. Slaves were not freed in the areas colored blue. They were border states, or territory already occupied by Union forces on January1, 1863. The proclamation covered the areas colored red. This image is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. ...
... The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863. Slaves were not freed in the areas colored blue. They were border states, or territory already occupied by Union forces on January1, 1863. The proclamation covered the areas colored red. This image is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. ...
The American Civil War`s Eastern Theater (Part 1
... The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863. Slaves were not freed in the areas colored blue. They were border states, or territory already occupied by Union forces on January1, 1863. The proclamation covered the areas colored red. This image is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. ...
... The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863. Slaves were not freed in the areas colored blue. They were border states, or territory already occupied by Union forces on January1, 1863. The proclamation covered the areas colored red. This image is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. ...
primary source set women in the civil war
... source; ask them to explain which one taught them more about Civil War women. ...
... source; ask them to explain which one taught them more about Civil War women. ...
February 21, 1919 Surgeon, Spy, Suffragette, Prisoner of War
... The man sitting on the chair on the right is nicknamed the “boy general.” Can you name him? Hint: Later he will be known for his “last stand.” ...
... The man sitting on the chair on the right is nicknamed the “boy general.” Can you name him? Hint: Later he will be known for his “last stand.” ...
Summer 2011 issue - Camp Olden Civil War Round Table
... graduated from the Military Academy at West Point in 1822. I saw action in the Seminole War (1838-42) and the Mexican War (1846-48). A strong opponent of slavery I corresponded with Abraham Lincoln on the subject and was invited to Washington in January, 1861. On the outbreak of the American Civil W ...
... graduated from the Military Academy at West Point in 1822. I saw action in the Seminole War (1838-42) and the Mexican War (1846-48). A strong opponent of slavery I corresponded with Abraham Lincoln on the subject and was invited to Washington in January, 1861. On the outbreak of the American Civil W ...
Henry P. Moore Civil War Photograph Album
... plantations abandoned by William Seabrook, James Hopkinson, and Confederate General Thomas Drayton. When fifty of Moore’s photographs were published by the New Hampshire Historical Society in 2000, filmmaker Ken Burns and leading scholars recognized their artistic and historical importance for being ...
... plantations abandoned by William Seabrook, James Hopkinson, and Confederate General Thomas Drayton. When fifty of Moore’s photographs were published by the New Hampshire Historical Society in 2000, filmmaker Ken Burns and leading scholars recognized their artistic and historical importance for being ...
Guide to the Fort Monroe Telegrams, 1862
... word “Andes” in message does not appear in known code lists of the two Federal cipher codes used by telegraph operators in 1862, it does appear in a private code used by William H. Heiss of the American Telegraph Company and it refers to General Wool. ...
... word “Andes” in message does not appear in known code lists of the two Federal cipher codes used by telegraph operators in 1862, it does appear in a private code used by William H. Heiss of the American Telegraph Company and it refers to General Wool. ...
Themes of the American Civil War
... publication—and a useful tool for both teachers and those interested in the Civil War more generally, or simply wanting to read more about a particular topic. Works on the Civil War are hardly in short supply. ABC-CLIO estimates some 50,000 books on the subject exist so far, or, to put it another wa ...
... publication—and a useful tool for both teachers and those interested in the Civil War more generally, or simply wanting to read more about a particular topic. Works on the Civil War are hardly in short supply. ABC-CLIO estimates some 50,000 books on the subject exist so far, or, to put it another wa ...
The End is Near: The Civil War in 1864
... We know now that the end of the war was coming at that time. We know now when things began to fall apart for Robert E. Lee and his army of rebels. We know now that 1864 was the final push, the last full year of war until the North won—hindsight is always 20/20. But I encourage you to not view the fi ...
... We know now that the end of the war was coming at that time. We know now when things began to fall apart for Robert E. Lee and his army of rebels. We know now that 1864 was the final push, the last full year of war until the North won—hindsight is always 20/20. But I encourage you to not view the fi ...
This Month in Civil War History: February 2016
... In February of 1861, the Confederacy formed a government at Montgomery, Alabama and appointed Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States of America. The capital would soon be moved to Richmond, Virginia, following Virginia’s secession that spring. President Davis would be formally inaugu ...
... In February of 1861, the Confederacy formed a government at Montgomery, Alabama and appointed Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States of America. The capital would soon be moved to Richmond, Virginia, following Virginia’s secession that spring. President Davis would be formally inaugu ...
chapter sixteen the civil war, 1861–1865
... This chapter covers that deadliest challenge to community and identity, a civil war. Both sides began the war underestimating its seriousness, scope, and duration. Northern generals such as Grant and Sherman recognized the advent of a more modern warfare and fought accordingly. The entire American c ...
... This chapter covers that deadliest challenge to community and identity, a civil war. Both sides began the war underestimating its seriousness, scope, and duration. Northern generals such as Grant and Sherman recognized the advent of a more modern warfare and fought accordingly. The entire American c ...
HISTORY Under - Cleveland Civil War Roundtable
... commands split between two wide rivers. Even today, with 21st-century technology and communications, such a plan would be difficult to coordinate successfully. In the early 1860s, only a commander of Jackson’s caliber and confidence could have pulled it off. In his biography of Jackson, author James ...
... commands split between two wide rivers. Even today, with 21st-century technology and communications, such a plan would be difficult to coordinate successfully. In the early 1860s, only a commander of Jackson’s caliber and confidence could have pulled it off. In his biography of Jackson, author James ...
Photographers of the American Civil War
The American Civil War was only the fifth war in history to be photographed, and was the best covered conflict of the 19th century. The first clear, sharp images of battlefield life made a powerful impression on the civilian public, as well as providing posterity with an extensive visual record of the war and its leading figures.