First Battle of Bull Run

There was a four-year bloody battle during the civil war. Both the northerners and southerner took fighting each other very seriously, and they both thought it would be a short war and minimal casualties, but that did not become the case. When the southerners talked about the northerners, they called them cowards and they did not think that they had the courage and strength to sustain in a long drawn out battle. The northerners really expected the southerner will to fight to weaken quickly and…

star quarterback Michael Vick was arrested and charged for dog fighting on his property. On April 25 2007, authorities raided a house in Surry County, Va., owned by Vick and reportedly found -- among other things -- 66 dogs (most of which were pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, bloodstained carpets and equipment used in the fights (Carney). The American public was shocked at the behavior of a national role model and Michael Vick, for the most part, fell from the grace of the National Football…

South Carolina was first and six others followed. These states then formed their own government in February of 1861, and became the Confederate states. On April 12th, 1861, the Confederate states ultimately began the Civil War when they fired upon Fort Sumter, South Carolina. This battle began when United States Major Robert Anderson and his eighty-five men made the move from Fort…

Individual: 1868- 1877 Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth president from 1865 to 1869. Johnson was the first president who had been impeached by the U.S House of Representatives. He was impeached because he didn’t respect the Tenure of Office Act. Susan B. Anthony was an abolitionist and women’s rights advocate. She was also the other founder of the National Women Suffrage Association in 1869. The ways she fought for Women’s Rights were by making petitions that people signed, saying speeches,…

dressed as a guy and enlisted in the 2nd Michigan Infantry, she thought it was her duty to serve her country and named herself Franklin Flint Thompson. When she finally got into the Infantry, she first served as a male field nurse, where she was in several campaigns including both Battles of Bull Run, Antietam, Vicksburg, and the Peninsula Campaign, many historians now a days say there was no way she was able to be at all of them at the same time. Emma’s career then took a sudden turn after a…

Henson who was the first person to reach the North Pole. The cemetery is made of 624 acres and consists of about 400,000 graves. Most graves are a white…

Justice is a term that people use to describe as an act or behavior that represents the good people present to others and themselves. It serves as a moral high ground that people strive to be, although sometimes these thoughts can be twisted into its opposite and cause pain, anger, and other negative emotions and acts arise within people. This pain erupts into what is known as injustice and is the epitome of what people should not strive for due it bringing so much negativity. It is a moral…

Lee, battle flag was square and varied its size for different branches of service: square for the infantry, for the artillery, and for the cavalry. It was first used in battle beginning in December 1861 and was used until the fall of the Confederacy. The blue color on the the battle flag was navy blue, as unlike the much lighter blue of the Naval Jack. The flag's stars represented the number…

text are, the literary piece The Drummer Boy Of Shiloh written by Ray Bradbury and the informational text How Shiloh changed the Civil War by Winston Groom. The Drummer Boy Of Shiloh talks about Joby, the drummer boy, who is scared of going into battle but the General gives him confidence and makes…

destroyed the Confederates will to fight. He was one of the most brutal Generals there were, but he was also one of the most successful. He went from colonel to major general in just a few years. While he was still just colonel, he first saw action at The First Battle of Bull Run, where he performed rather well, and even got the attention of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln got Sherman a position as brigadier general. He was then sent to Kentucky, where he served until his apparent mental breakdown.…