Confederacy

Was Lincoln’s Assassination Justified? On April 14, 1865, Lincoln became the first sitting US president to be assassinated. The day started off as any other day, and Lincoln was set to go to Ford Theater with his wife to see the play “Our American Cousin” (Swanson 21). Then, the day took a tragic turn for the worse when shortly after 10 P.M, Lincoln was shot in the head by an actor, John Wilkes Booth, who managed to escape from the theater, and the search for the assassin became one of the…

Two Cultures, Major Conflicts Ever since the formation of the United States of America, the North and the South followed different paths. By the mid 1800s, the differences between the two regions were so pronounced that many observers felt like the country was home to two distinct cultures. The North was becoming more and more industrial and dedicated to free labor and immigration. Many Northerners committed themselves to chasing the American dream of the poor man working hard, making a home…

Robert E. Lee once said, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it." The bloodiest war in U.S. history also known as the Civil War is the time in American history between 1861 and 1865 when the North and the South were divided amongst the issue of slavery. (The North, also known as the Union, and the South otherwise known as the Confederates) Each side had something they were fighting for. The Confederates were fighting for their way of life, having slaves was…

Both the Confederacy and the Union had to decide how much individual freedom could be acceptable when the military success required a unique exercise of government authority. The constitutions made the president both commander in chief of the army and navy. Lincoln…

Ken Burns a renowned documentary film maker uses his years of research and scholarship to give viewers an unbiased version of history through the use of his various primary sources stated throughout him. He discusses the current problems that America is facing today on the issues of race in the following two videos: “Charleston Shooting a Chance to Reexamine History”, and “150 years after the Civil War, America is Not Post Racial”. Despite these videos appearing to be on entirely different…

I miss you and the others at home awfully, but the tedious past two years of battle have been in our favor, so at least my absence has been of some aid to the Confederacy. Life back at the plantation seems like a dream when you live as a soldier. Working on the vile-smelling fields with our slaves for hours upon hours will always appeal more to me than the copious hours of marching and drilling the generals put us through; the aching of my feet after every practice burns more than my throbbing…

In following, both sides called for more soldiers, more Southern states joined the Confederacy, and the nation headed into civil war. During the last month of 1862, the North experienced a humiliating defeat at Fredericksburg, and in May of 1863, the Union Army became extremely disheartened at Chancellorsville after suffering another defeat…

almost split the young country. By the public recognizing the statues and being reminded of this war constantly, it brings relevance to America’s own knowledge of the past and wariness of future civil unrest. As the discourse in defintion of the Confederacy festers in the minds of many Americans, so does the definition of acceptable versus unacceptable, in regards to modern judgement on historical…

war. The industrialized North may not have had as much land as the south, although, they did have the ability to mass produce weapons much more effectively than the south did, due to their factories. Within four devastating years, the Southern Confederacy surrendered, and America remained one whole nation, under a Federal…

Oh Freedom, Oh Freedom, Oh Freedom, Freedom is coming, oh yes I know! These lyrics belong to the South African song, “Freedom is Coming” which was sung to rejoice liberation in South Africa. The power of freedom is something people have always fought for and celebrated. The word holds different meanings and connotations in different contexts. “Free”, in terms of this paper, means a person who is not property of a slave owner. Rather than focusing on the legislative emancipation of slaves, it is…