Confederate States Army

apart of the Engineer Corps as a second lieutenant. Over time Lee would climb the ranks and become a captain. When the United States went to war with Mexico in 1846, Lee was on staff with Major General Winfield Scott as an engineer. Using his engineer skills, he helped find ways around Mexican strong points so they could pass by or take over them. With Lee’s help, The United States captured Mexico City.…

the population, were clearly no help in the fighting. The industrial gap was another major reason for the war ending like it did, the North had the ability to produce anything it needed to win the war. The Europeans who immigrated into the United States they went immediately to the Union because they could find jobs at the surplus of factory’s, there was no reason for them to go to the south because the labor was done for free. This added to the population in the union but the immigrants didn’t…

The Civil War, also known by those who fought in it as the “great war” (Ford, Ford, & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999, p.7, para.1), was a tumultuous time in American history: pitting the Union Army in the North against the Confederate Army of the South; waging brother against brother; even causing neighbors to take up arms against one another. With the first-hand accounts writings of soldiers (on both sides of the war), such as A.P. Ford (1999), a soldier fighting for the side…

drug supply and provision in the Confederate Army, while Smith’s book details the history of the U.S. government laboratories in Philadelphia and Astoria, New York. Next came historian Bruce A. Evans, who studied drug therapies during the war in his book, A Primer of Civil War Medicine. Evans’ presents in his argument in a unique and interesting way by presenting “the essentials of medical therapeutics as they would have been summarized by a reasonably well trained mainstream physician during…

bloodiest wars in American history were three days. The Confederate army led by Robert E. Lee was dominating Union forces and were headed to invade the North. Panic arose in the Northern states and people began to flee towns. Lincoln had to make a decision and be hasty. He appointed General George Meade to lead the Union army to the Battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The chaos which soon ensued on July 1863 would be a key factor to the Confederate States’ downfall. It is not very likely that…

Rocky being one of the most famous movies in the world. However, the museum and the Philadelphia Art Commission lobbied for and succeeded in its relocation, leading to legal battles between Stallone and the museum. Now, Rocky Balboa is hardly a confederate general whose presence is potentially going to offend an entire group of people, however it brings up the question of what a statue represents to a city. According to Rice, not only is the statue a major tourist attraction for the city, it is…

Both A Martinet and a Failure: The Effect of the Battle of Stones River on Braxton Bragg General Braxton Bragg was a leader of the Confederate side in the Civil War. He fought in many battles, including the Battle of Stones River. However, his career came to an end because he caused his associates to become frustrated with his quarrelsome attitude and cowardly decisions. This begs the question: To what extent did the battle of Stones River affect Braxton Bragg 's military career? While Bragg 's…

practically wasn’t there at all, and that goes the same for doctors. The medicine time in the 1860s was the new start of the equipment that we use today. But in the 1860s doctors or nurses were known as specialists. When the Civil War began, The American Army doctors or health staff contained only the specialist general, thirty physicians, and eighty-three assistant specialists. Of all the specialists, only about twenty something people decided to go to the…

for up to 300 yards. Later new rifles were developed and one of the few developed was the repeating rifle by the union army. The union army developed this rifle which allowed a few shots in quick succession and could be used throughout on the battlefield and later discovered a new weapon called the Gatling gun. The Gatling gun was a machine gun that was first used by the union army in 1864, but was hard to operate and always had a lot of problems so it wasn’t the army’s weapon of choice. Another…

During the time of the American Civil War, the new Confederate States of America formed out of the previous Southern states. This new Confederacy formed its mission partially on a religious basis, with the Christian ministers leading the way. The South was a very Christian society, formed by a variety of Southern Protestant churches who often tied themselves with matters of the state, and this stayed at the heart of who the Southerners wanted their new nation to be. When the Civil War started,…