First Battle of Bull Run

Are people born brave or made brave? These two books that I read are called Bull Run and Iron Age. Bull Run is a historical novel for children by Paul Fleischman, published in 1993. It consists of sixteen monologues by participants in the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861.The novel has won several awards. The other book I read is called Iron Age. The author of this book is Bonnie Pryor. This book is about a man named Lee Chin, arriving in America to work on the railroad. His cruel Father is…

The Confederates were fighting to keep slaves as plantation workers. The Union wanted slaves to be freed and given rights under the law. According to Union Soldiers William F. Fox and Livermore in 1889, an estimated 620,000 soldiers were killed in battle, were starved, were disease ridden, or fell victim to accident or injury (Civil War Facts).…

issue for the south because he had wanted slavery gone. This had seemed like a easy battle for the North because they had more manufacturing in guns and just plainly had more population of the…

Following the First Battle of Bull Run, operations in the east reached a stalemate. In February of 1862, Under Ulysses S. Grant, the Union captured Fort Henry. This victory secured the lower half of the Tennessee River. On April 6, the Confederate army, lead by P.G.T Beauregard launched an attack on the Union militia. This was known as the Battle of Shiloh. The rebels moved Grant and his army back. Union forces, however improved and they defeated the Confederates. The North enjoyed another…

yards from the line trees ahead he crouched more than run.The fight had been called the Battle for Manassas Junction from a newspaper. Charley thought…

Civil War The Civil War was the bloodiest war ever fought by Americans, and against fellow Americans. Several horrific battles highlighted America’s most gruesome history such as the Battles of Antietam and Gettysburg which drastically raised the body count due to the desperate battle plans and attacks carried out by hundreds to thousands of men sent to their deaths on suicide runs. The bloodshed and pain of the Civil War, furthered by errors in judgment and the weaponry of the 19th century…

Stonewall Jackson Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia. He was considered a great American because of his great courage and knowledge on the battlefield. At a young age, six years old, both of Thomas’ parents were dead. Thomas and his sister, Laura, were sent to live with other relatives. This made Thomas extremely independent throughout his life. Jackson’s parents were named Jonathan and Julie Jackson. He was one child of four in his…

Union volunteer army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington DC toward the Confederate army under Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard, drawn up behind Bull Run creek west of Centreville. Beauregard's men defended the strategic railroad junction at Manassas, just west of the creek. On July 17th, McDowell sent a small force across Bull Run at Blackburn's Ford to test the Confederate defenses. A brief skirmish ensured, with light casualties and little result. McDowell made plans to…

Fort Sumter was first implicit the wake of the War of 1812, which had highlighted the United States ' absence of solid waterfront resistances. Named for Revolutionary War general and South Carolina local Thomas Sumter, Fort Sumter was one of about 50 forts assembled as a feature of the supposed Third System, a waterfront barrier project actualized by Congress in 1817. The three-layered, five-sided fort 's beach front situation was intended to permit it to control access to the basic Charleston…

War. As the title of this paper suggests, this paper is about the causes, battles, and the aftermath of the Civil War. In the first section of this paper, I discuss the different reasons that Northerners and Southerners fought and describe the attack on Fort Sumter. The next three sections of this paper are concerned with three major battles of the Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Antietam, and the Battle of Gettysburg. Finally, the last section of this paper is dedicated…