Fredericksburg

The battles range from Bull-run to fredericksburg and finally to gettysburg where they solidified their role in American history. If they were a new Regiment I highly don’t they would have survived the charge at Gettysburg. The 20th Maine was also a very battle hardened regiment but they were…

Lee. After many successful shows of leadership in the war, he was promoted to the rank of major. He was the colonel of the Virginia militia, and commanded at Harper's Ferry Virginia. In december of 1862, Jackson continued a victory at Fredericksburg, and then the famous flank march in Chanslerville May 2, 1863. The same night he was wounded in crossfire. General (Stonewall) Jackson got his name from the battle of bull run.”There is jackson standing like a stone wall.” said General Bard E…

In the time she lived, many believed she was not capable of being successful. They probably thought, she’s just a girl, what could she do? Little did these people know that she would become one of the best in her career. Mary Walker proved these people wrong by being a very important part of history. A civil rights activist that changed the course of the civil war. Mary Walker was born November 26, 1832 in Oswego, New York. She was one of six children; five girls and one boy. The Walker family…

Union National Objective(s) With tensions rising on the issue of Slavery in the 1860s, and the secession of a number of Southern states, the American nation saw the beginnings of a Civil war start to unfold. With the secession of the South, there existed a feeling that the Union should maintained rather than separate. After tensions reached their breaking point, war broke out between the North and South with the main national objective for the Union was to reestablish and preserve the Union…

In the Battle of Gettysburg, according to “The Killer Angels”, the southern generals made far too many mistakes that cost them the victory. In this battle, both sides made frequent mistakes, yet the South’s faults were far more fatal. These faults were the cause of the south’s loss of the battle, and the consequences that followed. The first disastrous mistake made by the South, was their faith in Jeb Stuart. Longstreet and the other generals in the Confederate army relied heavily on Stuart to…

He was born into a large family with him being the oldest of six siblings. Washington and his family spent most of their time at the Ferry Farm, a plantation on the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Washington married at the age of 27 to Martha Custis on January 6, 1759. When they had married, Martha already had 2 children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. Washington cared for them as if they were his own, he spoiled…

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” (Shakespeare). Shakespeare’s interesting interpretation of the world as a stage still remains true today. Many people come and go from life and some have major roles while others have minor roles. Although Shakespeare’s phrase is simply a metaphor, in the Sight and Sound Theatres in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, their world is a stage. Sight and Sound Theaters aim to produce theatrical representations of Biblical scriptures with the…

From 1852 to 1855, Lee served as superintendent of West Point, and was therefore responsible for educating many of the men who would later serve under him - and those who would oppose him - on the battlefields of the Civil War. In 1855 he left the academy to take a position in the cavalry and in 1859 was called upon to put down abolitionist John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry. Because of his reputation as one of the finest officers in the United States Army, Abraham Lincoln offered Lee the…

Civil War Did the costs of the Civil War end slavery and make America a better and safer nation for all Americans? Or, are we as Americans still fighting for equality? The Civil War acted as a catalyst for Americans and their human rights. It paved the way for equality for all under the law (Lincoln movie). The Civil War was between the Confederates, the south, and the Union, the north. The Confederates were fighting to keep slaves as plantation workers. The Union wanted slaves to be…

Rebuttal: If Grant had not captured Vicksburg, situated on the banks of the Mississippi river, which gave Union forces complete control of the Mississippi river, the Confederacy would have been able to use the Mississippi river to transport supplies, would not have split the South into two and stopped Southerners from getting much needed supplies coming in from the west. “A Yankee captain wrote home to his wife “The backbone of the Rebellion is this day broken. The Confederacy is…