Confederacy

Recently, certain statues have been the source of contentious debate surrounding their removal. For some, those statues do not need a public display as they are highly offensive and for others, the statues are cultural and needs to remain. However, the Confederate statues that largely haunt the South needs to be removed since there are no plausible defense for them. The horrendous events in Charlottesville, Virginia in which a suspected Nazi sympathizer killed a person, reminds us that we have…

where they “Didn’t sleep”, discovering more and more tactical information on the South’s plans to win the Civil War. In the USA a great war would soon begin a war that would separate the young nation, and would create the North and the South (Confederacy). The war would begin on April 12, 1861, and the main reason for this war was slavery. Spies such as Allan Pinkerton and the “Detective Agency” in the North, and women spies such as Mary Bowser led the North to victory in the Civil War.…

general of the Confederates from 1861 to 1865 and was previously involved in the U.S. Army (Pryor). Although Lee was highly esteemed for his service, his actions during battle invoked various consequences. Robert E. Lee 's decision to side with the Confederacy during the Civil War was strongly influenced by his military background with family and friends; his decision caused a great controversy to arise. Lee was born on January 19, 1807, to his parents Henry Lee III and Ann Hill Carter in…

Albert Einstein once said: “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.” The Civil War started because of differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. The war was fought from 1861-1865, and it was the bloodiest 4 years in U.S. history. It started when the Confederates bombarded the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter.…

Flag Officer David G. Farragut who commanded the Union fleet that broke through to New Orleans Major General Mansfield Lovell would not surrender the city. The Union's strategy was devised by Winfield Scott, who called for the division of the Confederacy by seizing control of the Mississippi River. One of the steps in such operations was the imposition of the Union blockade. After the blockade was made a Confederate naval counterattack tried to drive off the Union navy, resulting in the Battle…

Jackson sided with the Confederacy while Chamberlain and Hancock sided with the Union. Beginning with John Brown 's raid of Harper’s Ferry, America was hurling into a war. Lincoln 's presidential victory increased the south’s animosity. President Lincoln, a Republican, caused fear to arise in the south because Republicans stood on the grounds of no expansion of slavery in the Mexican cession territory. The threat of secession was becoming…

This document gave freedom to over 3.1 million slaves in the Confederacy (Emancipation Proclamation 3), but excluded the border slave states, which included Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland (Foner 241). Many in the Union were very pleased at the step the nation was taking towards abolishing slavery in the Confederacy. (Stowell 6). Nonetheless, it was not long before the abolitionists were not content with the Emancipation Proclamation…

org, n.d.). Some say the deaths in the Civil War were necessary, a noble sacrifice justified by the liberation of four million slaves (Horwitz, theatlantic.com, 2013). Others claim the Emancipation Proclamation was a final jab to undermine the Confederacy; that the war centered on states’ rights versus national legislation (Horwitz, theatlantic.com, 2013). Thousands of memorials and monuments stand throughout the eastern United States to commemorate the dead. The view on the primary purposed of…

the Union and the other fighting for the Confederacy, encounter each other during a battle in the Civil War. Tenniel 's cartoon, drawn from the perspective of someone who believed blacks shouldn’t be allowed to join the military, most likely had a variety of targeted audiences, including both Southerners and Northerners, as well as Americans, like Frederick Douglass, who thought that black conscription would both help the Union triumph over the Confederacy and help blacks achieve…

almost have been killed and found out who was giving the confederacy information.You didn’t think I could do something like this because I'm a girl…