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Two weeks after the Union attempted to try to take over the Southern capitol, Richmond, the Battle of Wilson’s Creek occurred. It was one of the most significant battles in the Civil War, as it was the first battle fought West of the Mississippi River. The subtle causes of this battle led to drastic effects following the battle at Wilson’s Creek. From this battle, we learn how an unexperienced military commander managed to win a battle that changed the course of the entire war, and therefore,…

future outside the constraints set by society for women. In a rebellious attempt to join the military disguised as a man to get away from Middleborough, she was caught and faced legal prosecution. Deborah, however, decided to run away and successfully enlisted in the military in another town. Using the name Robert Shurtliff, Deborah spent an extended time in the service fighting the British until the end of the Revolutionary War. James Snow- Deborah meet James during the march to…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a distant cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, was born on January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park New York. He was born into a wealthy family that also had been very prominent for the past 7 generations because of real estate and trade. He learned to hunt, ride horses, and sail; he also developed a lifelong commitment to conservation and a love of rural areas in the US. Roosevelt was educated at the Groton School for boys in Groton, Massachusetts. This was a bad experience for him…

even in situations where there guilt is obvious, members of the mafia will make things as difficult as possible. Furthermore, even if lower level members of the Mafia are caught the police had a hard time actually convicting anyone higher up in the ranks since they are removed from getting their hands dirty. This makes for the distinct problem that much of the evidence isn’t immediately clear. It is only after searching through both the primary and secondary sources extensively that the actual…

Chapter 27. Return flight And John Blyth? Ah, I wondered if you’d remember. At nineteen, already he was a veteran of 51 solitary missions to Germany. A number of them ranged as far as Berlin. His steed was the Spitfire Mark XI, developed from the Mark IX especially for recce purposes. Instead of guns it had additional fuel tanks in the leading edges of the main plane. It was equipped with two 36 inch cameras. No guns, no bullet proof windscreen, nothing – just cameras. These men flew unarmed and…

This paper will examine African-American soldiers’ journey during the American Civil War. I took interest in this particular topic because I wanted to learn more about black men in war and how they fought for their freedom. For centuries white people used to own black people from Africa as slaves to satisfy their interests, whites believed they had authority above dark skin people because of their race. Thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 black slaves in…

By 1865, bloodhounds were seen as a weapon by which the planter class oppressed not only slaves, but white unionists and northern prisoners of war. The savagery of the bloodhounds illustrated what Northerners considered to be the true brutality of the culture of the Southern planter class. In the war’s second year, newspapers in Iowa began to discuss the new use of bloodhounds in the Southern states as literal instruments of control over Southern Unionists. Dogs were indeed deployed by the…

The saints go marching on Smith Wigglesworth born on June 8, 1959 in a small village called Menston located in Yorkshire England to John and Martha Wigglesworth; little did they know that their son would become one of the Generals in the great army of the Lord. Wigglesworth was born in whales at a time when a man named Booth had distanced himself from organized religion and started the Salvation Army, and the people of Whales were praying for a mighty move of God. Little did the people of Whales…

These men, long deemed targets for bloodhounds, now fought in the same uniforms and under the same banner as the sons, husbands, and fathers who had enlisted from Iowa’s farms and towns, yet in their deployment of bloodhounds the Confederate army refused to acknowledge the change. Colonel Thomas Wentsworth Higginson, the white commander of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, United States army’s first…

Dear Emily or Dear Giselle or Dear Solis lol (: well dude it's been freaking awesome being able to hang with you this entire time that was left before boot camp. Now, by the time you are reading this I will probably be gone or ready to leave. There is a lot to say and I am not going to make it short because the adventures we had were bad ass. Well, let us start off when I first meet you. Well, it was when we went to a pool function at Camp Pendleton for a graduation. You might not recall what…