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Dances With Wolves Confederate Army
592 wordsLt. John Dunbar was lying on a hospital bed, leg totally mutilated. Barely conscious, the man over heard the surgeon say he could not amputate this mans leg as tired as he was. Dunbar didnt like what he heard, so when the surgeons left, he grabbed his boat, and he slowly slid the boat up his mutilated foot biting on a stick to relive the massive pain. He returned to the battlefield, with only one thing on his mind, suicide. So, he took a horse, and rode it directly in front of the Confederate ar...
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Prison Camp Men Died
1,140 wordsTorture, screams, no food: These are the conditions of prisons during the Civil War. The lack of attention to prisoners led to many gruesome things such as eating live animals. The two most infamous prisons were Andersonville in the South and Elmira in the North. Both had terrible conditions that were largely caused by the psychology of the War: If the other side doesnt have men they cant fight and likewise with weak men. Both prisons were alike in that men died, but each is infamous in their ow...
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Cemetery Ridge Pickett Charge
999 wordsGettysburg is the most significant battle in the history of the United States of America. The fate of the nation would be determined in the Civil War. The outcome of the Civil War rested on a battlefield in southern Pennsylvania. The battle of Gettysburg reached its climax on the third day, when the men of General George Pickett charged up Cemetery Ridge. Therefore the outcome of the battle, the war, and ultimately the direction the nation would take rested with the victor in this courageous ass...
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Pickett Charge Cemetery Ridge
1,021 words... d and because of smoke, and if there was any alternative to this attack it should be carefully considered (Stewart 112). Alexander was thus putting the burden of the fatal decision back on Longstreet. When Pickett confronted Longstreet to get final authorization for the assault Longstreet could not bring himself to talk, but instead just bowed his head (Stewart 164). After the attack had begun Longstreet announced, I do not want to make this charge (Stewart 162). After the war Longstreet too...
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Men And Women Tells The Story
949 wordsThe Civil War was a great event in everyone's life. Especially in the lives of the African Americans. We saw how they were forced into slavery and the hardships and torture that these men and women went through. However, we cannot go through what these brave men and women went through. In this film, "Glory, " these former slaves and fugitives combine their forces with those who did them wrong, the "white" men, to fight for their country. However, these men are deprived of supplies a soldier need...
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Atop Pea Ridge Side Of Big Mountain Van
548 wordsAt dawn on March 7, the head of the Confederate column had reached Telegraph Road, but the tail was still back at Little Sugar Creek. Van Dorn now made another snap decision: to save time, Price's division would proceed south on Telegraph Road on the east side of a rocky hill called Big Mountain; McCulloch's division would move south on Ford Road on the west side of Big Mountain. The two halves of the Army of the West would reunite around noon at Elkhorn Tavern atop the broad plateau of Pea Ridg...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Army Of The Potomac
875 wordsThe battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in the American Civil War. When looking at the causes of the Civil War, and eventually the Battle of Gettysburg, one must understand the differences between the differences between the North and the South. The South was fighting the war because they believed that the government treated them unfairly. They believed that the government overtaxing them, with tariffs and property taxes. On the other hand the North was fighting the war for two reasons. f...
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First One 000 Prisoners
878 wordsFive hundred men moved silently toward the gates that would shut out life and hope for most of them forever. Quarter of a mile from the railroad we came into a massive palisade with great squared logs standing upright in the ground. Fires blazed up and showed us a section of these and two massive wooden gates with heavy iron hinges and bolts. They swung open as we stood there and we passed through into the space beyond. We were at Andersonville. Private John McElroy. A camp where laws were left ...
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Emancipation Proclamation Henry Adams
1,690 wordsDuring his election campaign and throughout the early years of the Civil War, Lincoln vehemently denied the rumour that he would mount an attack on slavery. At the outbreak of fighting, he pledged to restore the Union, but accept slavery where it existed, with Congress supporting his position via the Crittenden-Johnson Resolutions. However, during 1862 Lincoln was persuaded for a number of reasons that Negro emancipation as a war measure was both essential and sound. Public opinion seemed to be ...
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Decides To Leave Point Of View
2,287 wordsMyths in "Gone With the Wind" Gone with the Wind is a movie loved by various audiences, this dramatic film shows what life was like in the South during the Civil War. While many of the events portrayed within the conceptual framework of the movie are historically accurate, overall several myths underlie the story line of Gone with the Wind. Among them, myths of the glorious old south and slavery are two most important ones. Within the scope of this research, we will elaborate on those two myths,...
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The South During Civil War
2,503 wordsThe South during the Civil War South during the Civil War is a topic that has attracted a tremendous amount of historians. A lot of research has been done on this subject, and within the conceptual framework of this report we will elaborate on South during the Civil War. Certainly, one of the major points to be discussed here would be the differences between the North and the South, since because of those differences the Civil War actually started. We will elaborate on how exactly South was diff...
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Battle Of Bull Run Oprah Winfrey
1,487 wordsOvercoming the Odds There are a lot of people that have had bad childhood experiences and had to overcome a lot of obstacles in order to become famous and popular. In this paper, we will discuss Thomas Stonewall Jackson and Oprah Winfrey, since they both had to struggle for fame and popularity. Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia. His education was at the U. S. Military Academy where he learned most of his knowledge he used in the Civil War. After his gr...
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Owned Slaves Cold Mountain
1,290 wordsI am coming home one way or another, and I do not know how things might stand between us. I first thought to tell in this letter what I have done and seen so that you might judge me before I return. But I decided it would need a page as broad as the blue sky to write that tale, and I have not the will or the energy. 1 This passage somes up the whole story in three sentences, yet only hints at the complexity of Inman's experiences and situation. Throughout the story we see the compromises Inman m...
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Ku Klux Klan Blacks And Whites
1,794 wordsA living organization changes with time. Some parts of it may remain identical to that which was first constructed. Most parts will adapt to changes in the world, in society, and in mankind itself. If it does not change, it withers and dies. Organizations which fail to adapt to changes, whether they like it or not, tend to become shrunken relics of their original selves. They become mummified images of a once living creation. Such an organization is the Ku Klux Klan, better known as the KKK. The...
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Andrew Johnson Southern Democrats
1,759 wordsThe Impeachment of Andrew Johnson With the assassination of Lincoln, the presidency fell upon an old-fashioned southerner named Andrew Johnson. Although an honest and honorable man, Andrew Johnson was one of the most unfortunate Presidents. Over time there has been a controversial debate as to whether Johnson deserved to be impeached, or if it was an unconstitutional attempt by Congress to infringe upon the presidents authority. The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was politically motivated. The sp...
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Ft Long James B
618 wordsIronclad ships were also a big part in the Civil War, two of the most famous ironclads were the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia a. k. a. Merrimack. The Monitor was built on Mar. 9, 1862 at Hamton Rds. VA. by John Ericsson they, for 4 hours the Monitor and the Merrimack battled. The Confederate ironclad was destroyed by its own crew to prevent it from being captured. The Confederates planned to build several ironclads that could challenge and defeat the wooden frigates and gunboats of the union....
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Robert E Lee Military Situation At Beginning South
542 wordsLeslie Jensen March 1997 Pre Collage Writing Outline: Southern Leadership When the American Civil War began in 1861 the North was sure of an early and quick victory. The North had a greater military potential with a population of 22 million people. The South only had a population of nine million with one third of the being slaves. The North also possessed car material advantages in mony, credit, factories, mentions, food production, mineral resources and two times more railroads than the south. ...
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Robert Edward Lee Edward Lee Military
396 wordsROBERT EDWARD LEE Son of Lighthorse Harry Lee, Robert Edward Lee was born January 19, 1807 at Stratford in Westmoreland County, VA. Following in his fathers footsteps, Lee entered West Point in 1825. He graduated second in his class in 1829, receiving a commission as second lieutenant in the engineers. By 1838, he had two brevet promotions, achieving the rank of Captain. Through his courage and brilliant strategies, he received his third brevet promotion in rank in 1852, becoming the superintend...
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Bull Run Thomas J
659 wordsThe First Battle of Manassas On a hot summer day in July of 1861 there stood about 30, 000 Union troops lead by General Irvin McDowell ready to march out and capture Richmond and end the war. For the troops were young volunteers and thought that the battle would only last one day. But they were wrong for the battle of Manassas or otherwise known as Bull Run lasted more then one day the battle lasted six days instead. The Confederates had 22, 000 men who were headed by Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregar...
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U S Military Commander In Chief
554 wordsLee, Robert E (dark) (1807 - 70), brilliant Confederate general, whose military genius was probably the greatest single factor in keeping the Confederacy alive through the four years of the American Civil War. Lee was born on January 19, 1807, in Stratford, Virginia, the son of Lighthorse Harry Lee, and was educated at the U. S. Military Academy. He graduated second in his class in 1829, receiving a commission as second lieutenant in the engineers. He became first lieutenant in 1836, and captain...
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