Confederacy

victory by the Union, the Confederacy would never achieve its goal of independence. Freedom –liberty- would be slowly gained for the slaves at that time. Lincoln would declare that unless the current Confederate states return to the Union by January 1863, all slaves “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free” (Page 139). This would spark outrage within the Confederacy with eventual submission after the Civil War. The Union victory at Antietam lost the Confederacy is foreign supporters and…

13-15, Battle of Morrisville, this battle took place 4 days after the confederacy surrendered at the Appomattox Court House. Sure news traveled slow back then, Battle of Columbus, April 16 the Confederacy is still fighting. They obviously either didn’t get the news or they are not giving up. Now the biggest shock is not the fact that the union won both those battles, but on May 12-13 at the Battle of Palmito Ranch the confederacy won. They had to have gotten the news of the surrender by then…

between them and the Union’s capital of Washington D.C. If the Confederacy were to invade the nation’s capital, the Union’s government would be unable to continue through the destruction and the seceded states would have won decisively. The Battle of Gettysburg promised a substantial reward for both…

the government so that each part of it can “block” an action the others can take. All the way across the Atlantic Ocean, five Native American tribes were already making a “checked” government, the Iroquois Confederacy, unknowingly putting Montesquieu’s ideas into practice. The Iroquois Confederacy believed that separating the government is beneficial to their rule and way of life. They (five different tribes) then banded together in a huge group for protection to carry out that idea. The…

King cotton theory, also known as king cotton delusion is the philosophy that the Confederacy could gain influence in foreign countries by threatening to cut off the flow of cotton from the south to the rest of the world. The Confederacy used this tactic to coerce Europe into joining them in arms against the Union and to destroy the northern industry. Although they were never able to bring down the common market and get them to fight with the ‘Johnny Rebs’, from 1861 to 1862 they created tie…

Civil War fought for the end of slavery between Union and South (North and South). It was one the most important war ever fought in history. Remarks of Civil war are still to be remembered. During Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was the president and he disliked the whole system of slavery. The Northerners and Southerners had their own strengths and weakness. In which, Northern states had the larger population, industries and better transportation as their advantages. They also had finest ruling…

government of the Confederate States, four more states joined a month late. Once the civil war between the north and the south came to start, an estimated 15,000 Floridians joined and fought in the war. Most of those 15,000 Floridians fought for the Confederacy and about 2,000 of those Floridians joined and fought for the union army. However, some Floridians wanted to avoid being drafted into the civil war and didn’t want to fight for either side so they decided to hide out in the woods and…

Ulysses S. Grant and his army sieged the river city of Vicksburg. Union is victorious and Confederacy has lost it’s last Mississippi river stronghold. This gruesome battle has been one of the major turning points bringing the favor of the war more to the North. Grant wanted to block all ports stopping troops, food, and other supplies from reaching the river city of Vicksburg. The horrific Battle of Vicksburg caused many casualties for both sides of the war, the Union had 4,910 total casualties,…

freedom of slaves, so the majority of the time Union female spies were working to free the slaves. The Union even had a female soldier that was only participating in the war due to her opinion about it which was, “slavery was an awful thing.” The Confederacy was against the abolition of slaves, they believed slavery was necessary to keep their society functioning well. Female spies were a huge help when it came to the civil war, because they gathered information about enemy plans to be used…

A Misconception of the Civil War The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is a film based in the west during the time of the Civil War between the Union and the Confederacy. Blondie (The Good) and Tuco (The Bad) are shown as a duo that kills, lies, and cheats to get to their goal, which is to find a hidden treasure of gold. Throughout the movie a man named Angel Eye’s (The Ugly) represents the Union and puts Tuco and Blondie on a few set backs that makes their journey for the treasure take longer. Many…