American Civil War

The city of New Orleans was the most valutable city in the Confederacy. The loss of the city took a huge blow to the Confederacy. The lower Mississippi had become a Union’s passage for the 400 miles to Vicksburg, Mississippi. In the middle of the night on April 24, Admiral David G. Fraught tried an…

Summary: This is a 3-page paper on social sciences comparing and contrasting the two famous American Civil War generals, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. The paper is in MLA format and has one source. Introduction: Ulysses Grant and Robert Lee were the two most prominent generals during the Civil War, serving as the…

Few observers at the start of the American Civil War imagined the ultimate de-evolution of the war from its psuedo-Napoleonic beginnings with armies in formation maneuvering along classical military lines to achieve a tactical advantage. Because so many of the generals on both sides of the war derived their knowledge of battlefield tactics from the…

 Truth be told, if a reader is looking for a historically accurate account of the Battle of Gettysburg, one of the bloodiest and certainly most pivotal battles of the American Civil War, Michael Shaara’s “The Killer Angels” is not the best choice of works.  However, if a reader is looking for a skillfully constructed tapestry…

Here are the simlilarities and differences of the lives of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony. Susan B. Anthony had a better life growing up than Harriet Tubman. Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820 in a small town in western Massechusets. Also was the daughter of a principled and plain Quaker father, and a…

Even o, there is one kind of symbolism that I have a tough time tolerating and that is the confederate flag. This symbol, usually stuck to the back of some guy’s old beat up truck, tells me he’s probably from the South, and that he’s probably a racist. In 1 861 , when the Confederacy…

Jackson was one of the most widely good known leaders in the American Civil War. He was 2nd best merely to the celebrated General Lee, who besides greatly admired him. His tactics are still studied today in Military Institutes around the universe. On January 21, 1824, Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born in Clarksburg, Virginia to…

In the period preceding the Civil War, there were a number of free Black people in the North as opposed to the South where the African American population was enslaved for the most part. However, the presence of a large number of free Blacks did not translate into major political breakthroughs such as the abolition…

The South which was know as the Confederate States of America seceded fromthe North, which was also know as the Union. The reason they wanted tosucceed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflictbetween the two. The North and South had between them deep economic,social, and political differences. The South wanted to become…

Many historic events took place in the southern states during the time of the Civil War. Virginia and North Carolina hold many significant sites that served importantly during the war, mostly to the benefit of the Confederate troops. Out of the many historic sites, comes the Sutherland mansion. Also known as the “Last Capitol of…