Army of Northern Virginia

The Confederates shot from the Wilderness at the Union soldiers.The trees and underbrush made moving hard because of the difficulty the troops faced to move in an orderly fashion and was extremely rough on the cavalry and artillery. Right after 5 am the Union second corps, led by Winfield Scott Hancock, drove back the Confederates nearly a mile. James Longstreet arrived to aid the Confederates helping the fighting to be even more intense than the first day of the battle. Unfortunately for…

military movements from Lincoln’s strategies, rather than strong and aggressive generals which dominated the south. The confederate generals had the mentality to stand and fight, but at the risk of having exhausted soldiers and chances of desertion. The northern troops took advantage of their “extensive” naval powers and dominated the rivers which branched throughout the confederate states, thus inhibiting the southern troops to truly use their geographic resources to benefit the war effort. As…

war. He was losing his funding, a large number of soldiers were dying, and the soldiers morale on the battlefield was extremely low. Every day Lincoln would become overwhelmed at the large amount of letters addressed to him about the war and the northern cause. Parents wanted to know what their sons were dying…

wanted to hold the Union together. If Grant had not won, the battle of Vicksburg it would not have split the South shrinking the size of the Confederacy by knocking out states. The South would not have been opened to become ravished by Sherman and his army. If the North did not win the battle of Gettysburg it would have split the North and a victory might have been possible for the South. Furthermore, the South really did not have to win, they just had to not loose since lowered morale of the…

Howell asserts “two critical events occurred that fueled the flames of secession in Texas – John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and an insurrection-arson panic, which swept through East Texas.” These events caused fear within citizenry that helped fuel the secessionist propaganda that used “any accident or deviant behavior in the state on abolitionist plots designed to…

Turner and his men had murdered many. Many people called the revolt the “First War”, as it was the most violent slave revolt in the history of America. Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800 on Benjamin Turner’s plantation in Southampton County, Virginia. From his birth, Nat Turner’s mother had inculcated him that he was intended for a great purpose. Adding to the fact that he became literate in his early years, Nat Turner also embraced Christianity, becoming a well-known preacher in African…

end slavery and bring liberty and freedom to African Americans, but these hopes died when his passage was taken out of the final draft of the Declaration. Jefferson blamed the removal of the passage on delegates from South Carolina and Georgia and Northern delegates who represented merchants who were involved in slave trade. This passage started the most intense debate among the delegates, and was the most important section that was removed from the document. Jefferson’s passage on slavery was…

the necessity...of proving that popular government is not an absurdity.... If we fail it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves (Gienapp 75). ” Abraham Lincoln eventually raised an Army and Navy of nearly 3 million northern men to face a southern army of…

The Effects of the Telegraph in America Throughout the 19th century many great inventions came about to better the lives of Americans. From small inventions like the soda fountain and the match, to more important creations such as the traffic light or man-made plastic, there is one device that aided greatly in a time of national struggle. The telegraph was invented in 1838 and was highly used throughout the years of the American Civil War. Without the help of the telegraph, the country may have…

He sent General Winfield Scott and the U.S. army to put all the Cherokee in stockades. Stockades were basically removal forts, which were located in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. In all there were thirty one forts located throughout the states. During the rounding up process the U.S. army soldiers showed many signs of cruelty towards the Indians. They even stole items and destroyed the Cherokees’ property…