First Battle of Bull Run

would go against the social conformity. She did become a school teacher, a position commonly filled by men, and eventually opened her own school six years later. Barton moved on to another job at the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. as their first female clerk. In 1861, federal troops attacked soldiers in the Massachusetts Regiment in Baltimore, and Barton rushed over to help the wounded and gather supplies. She reached out to her friends to do the same and created a network of volunteers…

The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day in American history. A battle so decisive, that it changed the course of the American Civil War. This battle brought the North a great victory and the South an utter defeat. Many lives were lost, up to 6,500 Union and Confederates on September 17, 1862, with many more wounded, with limbs and souls. The losses that day will be felt for many years to come. Many battles were fought between the North and South during the Civil War. There were…

reached their breaking point, war broke out between the North and South with the main national objective for the Union was to reestablish and preserve the Union as it was prior while the South sought for the preservation of their state rights. For the first years of the war, the Union's sole objective was to preserve the Union of states. However, with each attempt to push South that ended without success it…

Americans have choices on where, how, and who they worked for while the confederates were content with slavery. The confederates even tried to argue that slaves had better lives living in America than in their native land Africa. After three long days of battle the Union prevailed defeating the Confederates whose resources were few and limited. In the days leading up to the war the Confederates invaded the north and the marching trail of the Union just as they were about to attack the…

with his father and brothers. After a difficult childhood Thomas graduated from the New York U.S. Military Academy. Thomas worked hard and eventually met with academic success graduating in 1846. Thomas was sent to Mexico as a lieutenant with the first U.S.Artillery as the Mexican war was starting. He earned a reputation for toughness and bravery quickly. Around the war's end he…

Relationships are a fundamental part of lives, and war often changed the dynamics of these relationships. Because of accounts through letters, it is possible to witness the changing of these relationships through first hand accounts and careful reading. Edward Porter Alexander’s letters to his wife, Bessie, can serve this purpose. Through these letters, it it possible to trace his ups and downs throughout the war. The letter from August 5, 1861 is particularly interesting because it shows a…

The Union Falls 1.Explain the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the slavery issue. An abolitionist Harriet Beecher wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin the book. The novel illustrated slavery. Even though it was fiction, it is base on the true reality of slave’s lives. This allowed novel was an eye opener for the northern to see how slavery truly was and empathize with the enslaved. 2. Describe the chaos and impact of the events collectively called “Bleeding Kansas” (including the border ruffians, Sack of…

cavalry and artillery. Right after 5 am the Union second corps, led by Winfield Scott Hancock, drove back the Confederates nearly a mile. James Longstreet arrived to aid the Confederates helping the fighting to be even more intense than the first day of the battle. Unfortunately for James and many others, the smoke from the canons and guns along with the early morning fog, made it almost impossible to see. This forced soldiers to fire blindly-often hitting people on their own side, which was the…

thinking this war would be short and effortless. The First Battle of Bull Run proved to the North that the South was a force to be reckoned with. “After the battle both sides seemed infected with a gloom, a sense that this was now very real, the abstract political rhetoric replaced with the clear, sickening knowledge that many men were going to die” (Shaara 154). It was a turning point for the Southerners because they fought as the underdog and their first major victory against the stronger unit…

to slavery was seen as a threat to the economic interest of the southern states. The South responded by seceding from the Union and founding the confederate States of America in 1861 with Jefferson Davis as their president. South Carolina was the first to secede, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana secede in January 1861. The war effectively began the moment South Carolina passed the act of secessions. The south that the union remove its forces from government installations…