Army of the Tennessee

Chapter 15 of voices of freedom highlights and prospects the significance of freedom to blacks and the response of white Americans to emancipation. This chapter goes on to talk about the Mississippi black codes, these codes were laws that granted the freed blacks very few rights like owning property and marriage. The Mississippi black codes were passes on to restrict the civil rights of blacks and were used to regulate the freedom of former slaves. “the black codes indicated how the white south…

federal law dating back to 1792 prevented Negroes from bearing arms for the United States army. President Lincoln’s administration contemplated the idea of authorizing the recruitment of black troops, but were worried such a move would push the border states to secede and join the Confederates. By the middle of 1862, the escalating number of former slaves, declining number of white volunteers and needs of the Union Army drove the government to reconsider the ban. On July 17th, 1862, Congress…

Angel Army Logistics University SLC 18-526 The Battle of Gettysburg The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle that took place in North America. The Battle of Gettysburg began in Pennsylvania on the 1st of July, and it lasted until the 3rd of July in 1863 (Staff, 2009). The Union’s Army of the Potomac under Major General George Gordon Meade consisted of about 85,000 troops. On the other hand, the Confederacy Army from…

invading Virginia and Tennessee the blacks came flooding in,” Du Bois Writes. Escaping slaves would flock to the union camps by following the twinkling of their distant fires. With a rapid mass exodus of blacks coming north what would the north do with all these people. The union front lines had to different ideas of what to do. One idea was proclaimed by Fremont of Missouri with the thought of protecting the blacks under Martial Law or the other was to force them to work for the army. As Ben…

By April 1861 the Confederates fired first on Fort Sumter where the Unions were in control ar Charleston Bay, South Carolina. Lincoln brought Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas into the Confederacy. In 1861 West Virginia separated from the state Virginia. Slavery was still present in Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware they never decided to leave the union. On May 1861, Lincoln announced Martial Law…

him to have hostility toward Great Brittan. In his younger years, he became a young wealthy lawyer in Tennessee and the first to be elected from Tennessee to the House of Representatives. Jackson also so served in the senate. He married Racheal Robards in 1791, later being accused of adultery because his wife was not legally divorced when they got married. Andrew Jackson also served in the army, in the War of 1812 he was a Major General and became a national hero in his defeat against the…

made man¨, because his father passed away before he was born. He was just a 13 year old boy joining the Continental Army to be a messenger. In 1781 he was fighting in the American Revolution and was captured and beaten for refusing to clean the dirty boots of a British officer, because he refused he was beaten with a sword. In 1802 he was elected major general of the Tennessee Militia. He led troops during the first seminole war in Florida. He was well known by the American people for…

Coca-Cola history began in 1886 when the enthusiasm of an Atlanta medicate authority, Dr. John S. Pemberton, drove him to make an unmistakable tasting pop that could be sold at pop wellsprings. He made a prepared syrup, took it to his neighborhood tranquilize store, where it was mixed with carbonated water and considered "heavenly" by the people who analyzed it. Dr. Pemberton's accessory and assistant, Prospective M. Robinson, is credited with naming the drink "Coca‑Cola" and furthermore…

The Mexican American War The topic is the Mexican American war. Some of the people who were involved were Zachary Taylor, James K. Polk, and Robert F. Stockton. Many battles took place in the Mexican American war. It was a war that Mexico lost. It lasted two years from 1846 to 1848. The Mexican American war was so important in American history because we won what is known today as New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, Texas, and western Colorado which Is part of the western expansion.…

fought in 1860. The war was 4 years long and many battle and deaths had taken place. The war had started because the Southern States: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee known as The Confederacy had seceded from The Union (The United States of America). The war was into its third year when The Battle of Gettysburg had been fought. During the battle there were around 48,000 casualties from both sides. This…