Army of the Tennessee

Union Strategy 1861 – 1862: Lincoln and the Union high commands initial strategic proposal came from Major General Winfield Scott. The general-in-chief of the proposed “Anaconda Plan.” Scott’s master vision was an 80,000 man army pushing down the Mississippi River, severing the Confederacy in half while the Union navy instituted a blockade to suffocate and cut of the South’s trade. One factor that Scott and many of his staff thought was unique in the war was that a bulk of Southerners were…

laboratories spawned across the country, ranging from Chicago to California, to New Mexico to Tennessee. Billions of dollars were involved in this massive undertaking involving over 100,000 people. Germany — under Hitler’s leadership — was running a similar nuclear weapons project lead coined the “uranium project.” In 1938, the groundbreaking discovery of fission was made by three German physicists. Kurt Diebner, an army physicist was employed to investigate the applications of fission along…

and it needed to be done. But on the contrary, some think it was a waste of money, time, and it was not used for the good of the war and it was dropped on thousands of innocent people. The Manhattan Project was a great step in gaining political and army power in World War 2, there were many devastating effects on the dropping of the bomb and most people want to know if it was really necessary. The Manhattan Project was the project which started the building of the first U.S. nuclear weapons. It…

Summary Andrew Jackson, the man who set out plans that would usually send men floundering in panic, became a war hero during the War of 1812, shattered the Second Bank of the United States, removed national debt, and dominated over the Supreme Court. Historian and author, Matthew Warshauer of Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law, Nationalism, Civil Liberties and Partisanship claims that then Major General Andrew Jackson believed it was crucial to declare “martial law and suspend the…

In 1938, Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazis, annexed Austria. However, the Second World War began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Believing that Hitler’s intention was to control not only the region but all of the world’s nations, France and England declared war on Germany two days after the invasion of Poland. In late 1939, Germany controlled Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, and France. However, the United States, under the Roosevelt…

From when it all started many friends and family members knew he would one day become an idol. In Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8, 1935, shortly before dawn, Gladys delivers two sons. Jesse Garon Presley was born 35 minutes before Elvis Aaron Presley only being that he was stillborn. Elvis grew up with his parents being an only child and having little money trying to support themselves. Moving from house to house, he attends Assembly of God Church with gospel music playing an important role in…

Gean 6 Jessica Gean Ms. Warren English Composition 112 March 2, 2017 The Treacherous Journey of the Trail of Tears Before the British came over to the Americas, the Cherokee Indians, among many other tribes, inhabited these rolling hills, mountains, and plains. Unfortunately, they were removed from their homeland very viciously. The removal of Cherokee Indians is referred to as the Trail of Tears. The journey of the Cherokee Indians from before their removal, their fight to not be removed,…

Imagine a country that believes its expansion across the continent is divinely justified. A belief that disregards the people who live on the other side of the continent. A notion that led to the genocide, broken treaties, and rights of many indigenous people and Mexicans. The Mexican-American War, fought between 1846 and 1848, was a conflict over land between the United States and Mexico. The war started because the United States took over Texas, which used to be part of Mexico. The United…

Anyone familiar with the classic story of Mulan (the tale of a woman in ancient China who joins the army in her aging father’s place) will already understand the fundamentals of how women were able to fight. A historian by the name of Deanne Blanton (Author of “They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War”) points out, “Images of…

The war for independence in America, known as the American Revolution marked the end of the British rule over the colonies in America. After the British victory in the seven years’ war in America which ended in 1763, British government gained massive power over America, having massive land space and high population of migrants from Britain and American colonists. Not for long, the American colonists began to get frustrated of being ruled by the British government who had been imposing taxes upon…