Confederacy

Ford (1999), a soldier fighting for the side of the Confederacy, letters sent by family members left behind on the home front such as those from Ford’s wife, Marion (1999), and even from diaries and personal writings of civilians such as Mrs. Collis (1997), wife of Union Army General Collis, who traveled alongside her husband’s unit for a period of the war,…

Why the Confederacy Lost the Civil War The Confederacy lost the Civil War for many reasons that could’ve impacted the results of the Civil War. One reason is that the south didn’t have as many resources as the North. In fact, as of 1860, 97% of the Guns in the USA were made in the North. Additionally, 94% of the pig iron was made in the North. The North blocked its rivers, so supplies couldn’t be sent to the south. So, the North had more resources than the south. All the south really had was big…

contemporary debate, many historians claim the reason the Confederacy lost the war is based on southern resources, military strategy, civilian leadership or the institution of slavery. However, while all explanations can be classified as valid reasons as to why the Union won and the Confederacy lost, the case can be made that all four reasons were significant causes to the final result of the American Civil War. To start, the resources used by the Confederacy can be, more or less, attributed…

Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy had a significant impact on their area of origin, upstate New York, and parts of the surrounding Northeast U.S.. The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora peoples comprised the Six Nations of the Confederacy after 1722. Their importance on the original American frontier varied throughout the decades of their prominence. However, during the onset of the American Revolution, the Iroquois faced a deeply troubling and confederacy shattering…

The Confederacy was more than a cluster of succeeded states who wanted to still be able to keep slavery. Anne Sarah Rubin’s work “A shattered Nation: The Rise & Fall of the Confederacy” dives into the sentiment value of the Confederacy to the citizens. In this work she uses journals, diaries, and speeches to construct a consensus of the Confederate people from eighteen sixty-one until eighteen sixty-eight Important to note that Confederacy did not exist with the provocation of war and it never…

John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Award winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces takes place in New Orleans during the early 1960s. The novel follows Ignatius J. Reilly, a rather bulbous man, as he searches for a job to help support his mother. His quest for a job is marked by constant episodes of hilarity as his rotten personality thwarts even his best attempts to find employment. Throughout the novel he often displays his gluttonous and conceited personality. One of the things in the novel that is…

Should the founding fathers have kept us as a confederacy or was it a good idea to change to a constitution republic? In 1776 the country that we now call the Untied States of America was formerly known as the confederacy until 1789 then the United States was born as a constitution republic. The reasoning for the change was to make a stronger federal government for the national government. The confederacy was to weak to defend itself from inserection from the people or from other…

patterns also illustrate how New Orleans is different. Regardless, the heart and soul of the city, the attribute that makes it distinct, is the people. They truly embody what New Orleans is and represent their city to the tee. John Kennedy Toole in Confederacy of Dunces, uses his characters and their speech patterns to try to demonstrate this uniqueness. Ignatius J. Reilly is quite the character. He is extremely educated, as he went to college and ended up…

Both sides believed they were fighting for a just cause and that they would win the war easily. One difference between them was, the Confederacy had first-rate generals and the Union had more manpower. The Confederacy started more defensively, but as the war progressed they became more offensive. The Union was always on the offensive, hoping to reclaim the Confederacy with the Anaconda plan being the overarching strategy. The North wanted to reclaim the South but the South wanted to stay at…

Union saw this advantage and took it and used it against the Confederacy. Union victory was inevitable because of how the Confederacy just jumped to battle without thinking and how the union won with the Confederacy big disadvantage against them. The Union had a lot of advantages against the Confederacy and this was way the Union won because the Union thought long and hard about their attacks while the South took it as bait. Confederacy won the first battles repeatedly; they couldn't have…