Army of Northern Virginia

many individuals today that argue that this war was among the most horrific tragedies throughout American history because it resulted in being a brother killing brother tactic. The whole United States was separated because of slavery, having the northern states call themselves…

Robert Gould Shaw. McGill writes that most of the infantry was composed of African-American from Boston and small towns from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Canada. The 54th regiment was one of the main reason more people wanted to enlist in the Union Army. The 54th Massachusetts Infantry fought bravely at Fort Wagner against the confederate but unfortunately, according to McGill’s article, two hundred and thirty-five out of the six hundred men in the regiment died that day, including Colonel…

American literature is a large of part of our English systems in American schools. Edgar Allan Poe and American author and editor who is very well known for his despairing life and dark stories. Mark Twain an American author who is known for writing during the slavery period of America. Though both are American they had very different styles, lives, and inspiration for their stories. Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe are two American authors that lived at two different times in American history and…

McClellan’s plan to win the war, called the Peninsula Campaign, was to land on the coast of Virginia and head up the peninsula between the James and York rivers. However at the Seven Days’ Battle, the Confederates were able to stop him before he reached Richmond. John Pope was head of the Army of Virginia who was defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run. Lincoln soon replaced General McClellan because of the many defeats the Union had experienced…

In may 1863 the Union Army seiged to the city to sarve the confederates. It was successful and on July 4, 1863 30,000 confederates left Vicksburg and surreneded. The battle of Gettysburg where another group of rebels had lost and the confederact seemed as though it had no chance left. At Chattanooga the victory opened a path to georgia and was monumental in the war. Then the fighting in northern Virginia at Spotsylvania court house took place where the confederates…

The Northern economy revolved around industry, while the Southern economy revolved around agriculture. In order to compete in the global marketplace, Southern plantation owners relied on slaves to pick cotton and work their land. Northerners, for the most part…

The Mexican War ended and the Missouri Compromise On February 2nd of 1848, the war between Mexico and America came to an end at the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The war lasted for 2 years. Mexico and America was fighting for the land of California and New Mexico and who would receive it. In 1844, Democrat James Polk won the election and became president. During his presidency he pushed to add Texas to the union. It was added in 1845 and during this time southerners pushed to also add…

designed by “Prussian artist Nicola Marschall in Marion, Alabama”. The Stars and Bars flag was adopted into the union in Montgomery, Alabama. When the war started the flag looked too much like the union flag which caused a lot of confusion in “commanding armies in maneuvers”. Which lead to the new national flag, the Stainless Banner flag. (Coski, John M.)(Confederate Flag History) The Stainless Banner’s flag was from May 1, 1863 to March 4, 1865. The white on the flag represents the “purity of…

On August 9th, 2014, Michael Brown, an African American teen was shot by a cop for suspicious behavior. The fatal shooting of Michael Brown was an accident caused by stereotypes. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird in the small town of Maycomb Alabama stereotypes are common occurrence. Harper Lee uses the literary devices of allusion, symbolism, and irony to communicate with the reader. Harper Lee uses the novel to express that stereotypes influence people's thoughts. To start off…

colonies would be formed. Though these colonies were similar in some ways they were largely different. Economically, Jamestowne was the most profitable of the two colonies even though Jamestowne did not always return a profit to England. Because the Virginia Company thought the new world would contain an abundance of gold and silver, the majority of the crew on the Jamestowne colonist ships were gold miners, jewelry smiths, and noble in nature. The Jamestowne colonists were disappointed to find…