American Civil War spies

the United States (March 4th , 1861-April 14th , 1865). He was president during the Civil War. Lincoln was watching the play Our American Cousin in Ford’s Theater when he got assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth was an Actor. He was also part of the Know Nothing Party who wanted to limit immigration to the United States. During the Civil war he joined the Virginia militia, and was a Confederate spy. According to biography.com Booth was involved with a conspiracy to kidnap…

gender equality until the Civil War. The Civil War was a catalyst for women in American society as they developed a new sense of freedom from the new opportunities given to them. Prior to the Civil War, women were somewhat active in their communities. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and the Seneca Falls Convention brought the idea of women’s rights into full effect. Although the idea was not as…

slaves,” this was one of Harriet’s most well known quotes (Biography.com). Harriet Tubman had to overcome many obstacles in her early, middle, and late life. She was a hardworking and brave African American. Nothing would stop Harriet from her success. If it wasn’t for Harriet Tubman, African Americans would never have reached full freedom. Harriet’s early life was full of trials, hardships, and responsibilities. As a child, Harriet, was born into slavery. She was owned by Anthony Thomas. She…

at all. At least their work was not done in vain; their accomplishments were one of many issues that became a springboard for the federal government to pursue the Civil War (Shultz, 2104). Prior to the start of the Civil War the slaves were fighting for their freedom through unorthodox means. All of the events that led up to the war were instrumental for the slaves. While a few slaves had courage and fearlessness the majority remained suppressed;…

of fighting this war. When Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Keckley reclaimed their past and described their reunions with their enslavers, they showed their intent on renewing the slave narrative as an element still relevant to the postbellum era. Some people may wonder if this is a deviation from reality, but the truth is this kind of revisionism is in itself a historical truth, something emerging in something the writer is living at the moment. If we can read African-American literature and…

questioned. That and other disputes led to the start of the Civil War. Many people came together to end this conflict and bring peace back to America. One of these people, Harriet Tubman, called the “Moses” of the Civil War, influenced her people and the rest of America by leading hundreds of slaves from bondage in the South to freedom in the North. She also played an influential role in the abolition movement and had an active part in the Civil War. In the early 1820s, Harriet Ross gave birth…

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in The Civil War South we are able to gain an insight on how the ideologies that the confederacy were based on contributed to its downfall. These slaveholders might have created a powerful empire but they did not realize that they had excluded most of their population of white-women and slaves. The confederacy tried to succeed and they failed and what we see from Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in The Civil War South is that in this political…

Harriet Tubman is best known for her work on the Underground Railroad, though it is debatable if this was her greatest achievement. Harriet Tubman was also a Union spy, a Civil War nurse, and a caretaker in her lifetime. Harriet Tubman (known then as Araminta “Minty” Ross) was born a slave in 1822. In 1808 Congress made it illegal to import slaves, so the Eastern Shore in Maryland, where Harriet lived, was put under great pressure to provide the laborers for the farther South. Families were…

The beginning of the Civil War began when President Lincoln sent a fleet of Union ships with supplies to Fort Sumter in South Carolina and the Confederate army fired shots at both the ships and the fort. President Lincoln was hoping for a quick victory, but that was soon destroyed and Lincoln called in for 500,000 Union soldiers. President Lincoln quickly surprised many as a very capable wartime leader. President Lincoln was very choosy about his military commanders, his first commander was,…

The Civil War took place from 1861-1865 and it was fought between the Union and the Southern Confederate States. The Confederate Army fought for their right to own slaves while the Union fought to abolish all slavery. In the book Confederate Reckoning by Stephanie McCurry, she explains things that take place during the war but are not apart of the battle. McCurry thoroughly explains African slaves and white women during the civil war and their political state of mind and political consequences…