Army of the Potomac

To what extent did the aerial forces of the First World War impact the course of the war and its outcome? “The day has passed when armies on the ground or navies on the sea can be the arbiter of a nation's destiny in war. The main power of defense and the power of initiative against an enemy has passed to the air.” -Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. November, 1918. The Italo-Turkish war, which lasted from 1911-12 and was predominantly fought in Libya, was the first recorded event of a bomb…

Abraham Lincoln “Whatever you are, be a good one” by Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln is the 16th president of the U.S, he is famous leaving out the Civil War and ending slavery.Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States America. His life was interesting from the beginning to the end. He had a very hard childhood from the birth to the age of 20. Lincoln had to do a lot of work when he a kid. During his political career, Lincoln had a variety of jobs. President Lincoln had many…

members, it is also a place of mourning and a place for reflection on military service. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located in Arlington National Cemetery. It is located towards the back of Arlington National Cemetery on the west bank of the Potomac with a building that has an amphitheater behind it. Arlington National Cemetery has approximately 400,000 veterans buried on its 624 acres.…

GEORGE WASHINGTON Have you ever wondered about that old guy on your one dollar bill? Who he is and what has he done to deserve that place on the dollar? Well that old guy is George Washington, and most people know him as our first president. But if you dig a little deeper and did more research you would find out that George Washington was so much more. Let’s go back to George’s early life, before he was ever a general or our president. George was born on February 22,…

ALEXANDER HAMILTON Madison May History 2010- 06; American History 1 November 10, 2016 When most people think of the founding fathers the first person to come to mind isn’t normally Alexander Hamilton. Although he is one of the only people on U.S. money, being on the ten-dollar bill. Most people think of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but Alexander Hamilton is both very interesting and very important. Hamilton is someone you learn about in both history classes…

Approximately 405,399 American lives were lost in World War II. World War II is one of the most studied wars, which people mistake as the most tragic war for Americans, however, the Civil War had higher casualties than this popular war. The Civil War approximately cost 620,00 lives, the second highest out of all American Wars. The Civil War was one of the greatest impacts on war in history. The Civil War had several causes and impacted soldiers, citizens, history, and literature. The Civil War…

Alexander Hamilton Over two hundred years before Lin Manuel-Miranda’s “Hamilton” hit Broadway, our “Ten dollar founding father without a father” was making waves by being one of the most controversial figures in Colonial America. Alexander Hamilton became one of America’s most influential founding fathers by establishing the modern American economy and being one of the strongest advocates for the United States’ Constitution, as well as doing many other things to make America the great nation…

“The first stop on Keiley’s [a prisoner] journey north was Point Lookout Prison on a spit of land on the land on the Maryland Shore between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay” (Gourley 40). The way a person would get to Andersonville depended on how far away a person was captured. If a Union soldier was captured far from the prison, then the captured soldiers would march in a group surrounded…

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, and replaced him with Henry Halleck. However Halleck did not have the organizational skills that McClellan did, and so McClellan made a quick return (Brookhiser 213). In September of 1862, Robert E. Lee crossed the Potomac River and invaded Maryland. They fought at the Antietam…

at approximately seven o’clock in the morning, Brigadier General Willis Gorman of the Union army began mobilizing his units as part of Major General Sedgwick’s division to assault the Confederate defenses in the West Wood. Gorman’s brigade was the first brigade of the second division under Major General John Sedgwick who was under the command of Major General Edwin V. Sumner, commander of the Second Army Corps. This narrative will discuss the events that took place with Gorman’s brigade by…