Emancipation Oak

of the Potomac were at the time outfitted with muzzleloaders. A muzzle loading rifle musket like the one with which Lindsey would have been armed could have been loaded and fired three times per minute by a trained soldier. The Battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines began on May 31, 1862 when the army of Confederate General Joseph Johnston launched attacking a portion of McClellan’s army seemingly isolated on the south bank of the Chickahominy River with the arrival of Union reinforcements the…

Ulysses S. Grant: Grant was both a general and a commander of the Union forces in the later years of the Civil War. He is known for being a great general who guided the Union troops to their triumph over the Confederate armies. He was victorious when he captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee and when he crushed a large Confederate army in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Grant’s contribution to ending the Civil War, however, was when he led his forces to lay siege to Lee’s Northern Virginia…

of Shiloh with Grant and Buell and the Seizure of New Orleans by 1 May 1862. In the East, however under McClellan, Burnside and later Pope, gained little or lost a bunch with each major engagement against the Confederates such as the Battle of Fair Oaks and later the Seven Days Battles. In the end of the campaign of these battles the Army of the Potomac again was pulled back north to Washington. By the time of the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Confederates had plans to cut off Buell's supply…

country suffered a major defeat. These are the tiny seeds that will ultimately sprout into a mighty oak as the Jews are the target of the Reich. The Jewish comprised about a one percent constant of the German population during this time period (Committee 3). Despite such a small representation of the populace, the Jews maintained a disproportionate number of high paying jobs. Prior to emancipation the Jews wanted to contribute to their country; however, due to restrictions that denied them…

Approximately 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in Southern states inhabited an unequal world of segregation and oppression. In the decade and a half that followed, civil rights activists used nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to bring about change. Many leaders from the African American community became dominant during the Civil rights era. They risked their lives for freedom and equality. This movement had roots of African slaves and their descendants to…

The "Abraham Lincoln Companion" covers a lot of events that happened while Lincoln was in office. Abraham Lincoln goes down in history as our six-tenth President of the United States of America. He also is known for the Emancipation Proclamation, which set the slaves free. He also is the president who had to dealt with and ended the Civil War, and he was successful of keeping the South apart of the Union. Lincoln was a strong and poised president that the United States of America needed during…

lifted from biblical themes, although he did execute portraits, landscapes, and scenes from history. Bannister's first significant recognition for his paintings came after he moved to Providence, Rhode Island. In 1876 Bannister’s painting “Under The Oaks” won first prize at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. After finding out that Bannister was African American, the judges discussed rescinding the award. However, many of the artists he had competed against stood behind the decision to…