Flags of the Confederate States of America

The American Civil War is arguably the most important war in United States history. Hundreds of museums, landmarks, and memorials across the country are devoted to remembering the battles and other historical sites of the war, as well as the strong leaders of either side. The important figures of the war are arguably some of the most revered figures in American history, even today. Confederate Generals such as Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson for example are honored not only for…

In America slavery became very prominent in the South. It effected America in many different ways. It effected the economy. Slavery was highly profitable, but it negatively impacted the Southern economy (South’s Economy). It hindered the growth of industry and cities (South’s Economy). Slavery had a hand in high debts, soil exhaustion, and lack of technological innovation (South’s Economy). It caused the South to have no urban centers for commerce, finance, and industry compared to that of the…

American Civil War, also called, war between the states, war for four years (1861-1865) between the United States and 11 Southern states that secession from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. The Civil War was a war to preserve the Union, which was the United States. Since the beginning of the Constitution, there were two different views on the role of the federal government. Federalists believed that the federal government and the executive needed to maintain their power…

Lincoln, in November of 1860. The slave states detested Lincoln because he, as a Republican Party leader, opposed the spread of slavery to the territories of the United States that were undecided. Within a short period of time, the slave states began to secede from the Union; 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…

uncompromising differences between the free and slave states. The government didn’t have the power, because it wasn’t written in the Constitution, to prohibit slavery in the territories that were yet to become states. Washington planted the seed of unity in the heart of the nation’s people. The Louisiana Purchase basically doubled the size of the US. The way the territory was laid out wasn’t suitable for the alternation between free and slave states. The South was threatened, Douglas came up…

The American civil war remains to be the most brutal and bloody war that America has ever experienced in its history. The war started in April 1861 when the confederates, which consisted of seven southern states that seceded from the United States, attacked federal soldiers at Fort Sumter claiming that the fort was theirs (Reid & Keegan, 1999). They forced the federal soldiers to lower the United States flag as a sign of surrendering. Abraham Lincoln rose to power in 1860 and promised to…

high point in a sectional discord that’s affects have continued to be evident in several issues in today’s society. As most wars, there’s at least two decidedly divided and biased sides to the story. With two perspectives coming from one country America had to decide how they wanted to remember this war. Being such a complex dispute with two very distinct viewpoints, each side had their personal view on the reasons for the war, the events throughout the war, and the effectiveness of…

of 1864, one year before the Confederate Army’s surrender at Appomattox. Brothers Earl and Paul, fighting on opposite sides of the war, have both died in a recent battle. Union General Creon has requisitioned the plantation as his command post and has declared martial law. A bugle sounds in the distance as two Union soldiers enter from the right side of the scene. The soldiers remove a Confederate banner that hangs from the building and replace it with the Union Flag. The soldiers exit to…

has “the Confederate army, under the command of General Robert E. Lee…pinned inside the city [Petersburg, Virginia] for more than 250 days by Union forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant” (O’Reilly, Dugard 4). Grant believes that if Lee’s army is allowed to escape south to the Carolinas “a reunified United States of America” (4) will never be realized; “America will continue to be divided into a North and a South, a United States of America and a Confederate States of America” (4).…

When I picture the Civil War, I picture people fighting in a field and Abraham Lincoln delivering triumphant speeches of freedom and emancipation. Not often do I think about the desperate human struggle for survival in POW camps, the brutal journey many took to escape slavery, or the hundreds of dead bodies that lay mutilated after brutal battles. In the graphic history Battle Lines, by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman, such realities and human experiences are visually portrayed. In order to…