Confederacy

The American Civil War, a result of Southern states seceding after Republican Abraham Lincoln became president, lasted from 1861 to 1865.The war ended with a surrender from the Confederacy, with more than 600,000 deaths from both sides. Although the American Civil War was fought on the other side of the world, Europe still had interest and played a role in it. To begin, Europe sent envoys to report on what was going on in America during the war. An envoy was not a spy. In fact, spies took…

rejoined the Confederate armed force, abusing the terms of their parole. This is one motivation behind why in 1864 the Union armed force halted all detainee trades with the Confederacy. The outcomes of Vicksburg were monstrous. Consolidated with Lee's annihilation at Gettysburg on July 3, it was a shocking hit to the Confederacy. Yet, Vicksburg's misfortune was from numerous points of view more critical to the war. Presently, Union powers had complete…

Up until the Emancipation Proclamation, there were many different reasons for why the Civil War was being fought, because no one would acknowledge the real underlying cause. The Union was anti-slavery and the Confederacy was pro-slavery, but neither acknowledged that this was a cause of the war. The Emancipation Proclamation “freed” slaves in rebellious, Confederate, territory. Many southerners disagreed with the Emancipation Proclamation and kept their slaves because…

The American Civil War was a period led by glorious leaders and followed by bloodshed. Robert E. Lee was perhaps the greatest of such leaders. Being from the South, Lee chose to participate in the war as part of the Confederacy. For the first three years of war, Robert E. Lee acted as the commander of the Northern Virginia Army. The Northern Virginian Army was a tandem of warriors feared in the Union as an efficient war machine. He spent the last year of war as the head of the Confederate Army.…

assassination was wrong, and if Lincoln was alive through his full term, and he still had great plans for the U.S. Booth’s motives to kill president Lincoln were all focused on getting revenge. Booth blamed Lincoln for “ruining” the South and the Confederacy. He wanted Lincoln dead. Booth planned to kidnap Lincoln for ransom a year prior to his assassination, but that plan…

Confederate victory at one point (Rapp). Lee desperately needed to win a battle in the East so General Ulysses S. Grant could not capture Vicksburg (Carlson). The final capture of Vicksburg on July 4th, (which took nearly six months) divided the Confederacy in two. It was significant that both Union victories had been announced on the same day: July 4th, the anniversary of signing the Declaration of…

to the war and succession of the southern states to the defeat of the Confederacy. His voice, which continuously advocated for states’ rights, called first for the succession of the southern states out of the Union and then, in turn, resisted against the Confederacy, opposing its impressments of goods and slave labor and the Confederate draft. State after state followed him, protesting against conscription and the Confederacy. Ultimately, Brown’s and his followers’…

Indian War and in 1774 his father was killed at the Battle of purpose Pleasant throughout Lord Dunmore’s War. This had a long-lasting result on Tecumseh and he vowed to become a soul like his father. As a young person he joined the yankee Indian Confederacy below the leadership of Mohawk Joseph goose. goose inspired tribes to share possession of their territory and pool their resources and personnel to defend that territory against invasive settlers. Tecumseh LED a gaggle of raiders in these…

Once the Civil War ended, the highest political and military leaders of the Confederacy were all potentially guilty of treason, according to the constitutional definition of the crime. While Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Nathan Bedford Forrest had different situations, they were all technically guilty of treason, but each one of them was punished differently. As one of the most well known war heroes of his time, Robert E. Lee was also one of the most distinguished and respected generals in…

the Mississippi river, which gave Union forces complete control of the Mississippi river, the Confederacy would have been able to use the Mississippi river to transport supplies, would not have split the South into two and stopped Southerners from getting much needed supplies coming in from the west. “A Yankee captain wrote home to his wife “The backbone of the Rebellion is this day broken. The Confederacy is divided…Vicksburg is ours. The Mississippi River is opened, and Gen. Grant is to be our…