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Mexican War Civil War
1,456 wordsGeneral Lee said, to be a good soldier you must love the army, to be a good general you must be prepared to order the death of the thing you love, and therein lies the great trap of soldiering. When you attack you must hold nothing back. " Thomas J. Jackson was both a good soldier and a good general. In the Mexican War he fought with all his heart for his country. When the Civil War came, he was a general. He never hesitated to send his men forward. He held nothing back. George McClellan also fo...
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Union Soldiers Army Corps
1,171 words... , which was taking too long, he left with out them. He knew if he would wait for the supplies, Vicksburg would have time to be reinforced. Grant decided not to wait for the supplies any longer and just move to Jackson and attack Vicksburg from the rear. The Union leaders hardly agreed with this carry-what-you-can plan and sent a message to Grant to wait for the supplies in Been Rouge. This message never made it to Grant, it was too late and he was already in the execution phase. Sherman join...
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African Americans Civil War
500 wordsIn this movie, it describes how the Free African Americans volunteer or sacrifice their lives to participate in the Civil War between the Union and the Confederates. In the opening of the movie, it shows a part in the Civil War where the Union attacked the Confederates straight on. Into the opening, it showed a Union soldier getting blown in the head like a watermelon would fall on a concrete ground. That part in the movie was amazing because it showed the details of the head being blown up by a...
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Colored Troops Commissioned Officers
1,020 words... ort, which was occupied by a 292 black soldiers and 285 white soldiers. The Confederate troops captured the Fort and gave the Union soldiers a chance to surrender. They then drove the Union soldiers down the river's bluff into a deadly crossfire and many died that day, there were only 62 of the 292 black soldiers that survived. Many in the North accused the Confederates of purposely massacring the blacks soldiers. Afterward in other battles "Negro soldiers fought only more stubbornly and fer...
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30 P M Cemetery Ridge
1,396 wordsThis most famous and most important Civil War Battle occurred over three hot summer days, July 1 to July 3, 1863, around the small market town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It began as a skirmish but by the time it ended, it involved 160, 00 Americans. Before the battle, major cities in the North such as Philadelphia, Baltimore and even Washington itself, were under threat of attack from General Robert E. Lee s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia which had crossed the Potomac River and marched ...
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Robert E Lee Battle Of Gettysburg
1,469 wordsBy: Mike Sidoti There Gettysburg Gettysburg By: Mike Sidoti There is a lot of controversy as to why the U. S. Civil War started. Historians believe it was merely a difference in the two cultures. The U. S. Civil War was mainly started because of a difference in these two cultures. The South had an agricultural economy, and the North had a manufacturing economy. Because of such different ideals, both areas were fighting for different reasons. The North was fighting to abolish slavery, while the S...
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Helped To Shape Union Soldiers
882 wordsThe Killer Angels In the Killer Angels, the author Michael Shaara tells the story of the battle at Gettysburg during the civil war by re-creating events up to and during the battle. Shaara divides the book into four major sections: Jun 29, July 1, July 2, and July 3 of 1863. Throughout the book Shaara recreates the thoughts and individual feelings of both union and rebel soldiers. An interesting element of this battle was the soldiers themselves. This battle took place during the third summer of...
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