Gettysburg

In every war, there is a winner and there is a loser. The final result of the war is a mix of successes by one side and failures by the other side. The Civil War follows the same trend as the South failed to withstand the Northern attacks. The South never had to conquer Washington or win the war, in reality, they only had to not lose. If the South could last long enough for the North to get tired of fighting, they would win the war. The Civil War could be interpreted as a race against time,…

The battle in Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest battles. There were 50,000 casualties and it lasted 3 days. This battle was the turning point in the war. Lincoln dedicated the battlefield as a national cemetery. “The Gettysburg Address” is considered one of the most eloquent, moving and historic speeches in American history. “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to…

definitive, and led to total destruction of the army of Northern Virginia. Not only did battles decide who won which portion of land they also help President Lincoln launch emanicplication. Without Gettysburg we would not have seen the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The battle itself took place outside Gettysburg,…

Remember the titans’ focuses on a football team of the separated T.C William School Alexandria Virginia in 1971, the white and black schools are integrated and so are the two school’s football teams. The very successful white football team head coach Bill Yoast is replaced as the head coach for the new integrated team, by an equally successful black coach Herman Boone. This action angers Yoast who contemplates advancing his careers elsewhere. However, he is prevailed upon by the white players…

Considering all the wars and confrontations that occurred in America, the Civil War is known to be the bloodiest and most devastating of them all to shape our perceptions of liberty. It was a war which turned neighbors against one another and deeply divided our nation. For its duration, 600,000 to 700,000 Americans lost their lives. Tensions rose between the North and the South ultimately leading to the South’s secession from the Union of the states. The most important issues causing America to…

Abraham Lincoln is one of the greatest president in the United States. Lincoln was born on February 12,1809, in Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky, according to historynet.com. As a child, he loved to read, he would walk for miles to borrow a book. He received little formal education, because his family was poor, so he self- educated himself. He moved several places, from Kentucky to Indiana, and finally settled in Illinois. His law practice began from there. During the Civil War,…

The beginning of the Civil War began when President Lincoln sent a fleet of Union ships with supplies to Fort Sumter in South Carolina and the Confederate army fired shots at both the ships and the fort. President Lincoln was hoping for a quick victory, but that was soon destroyed and Lincoln called in for 500,000 Union soldiers. President Lincoln quickly surprised many as a very capable wartime leader. President Lincoln was very choosy about his military commanders, his first commander was,…

Civil Rights Movement. This simple man from Kentucky is Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President of these United States. Lincoln was a firm believer in equality and that just as it says in the constitution “all men are created equal” as visible in his Gettysburg Address “Four Score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” He may have been born in the south but has a strong…

The total number of casualties came out to a total of about 51,112 soldiers (“Battle of Gettysburg”). This battle not only created a long-lasting memory of bloody deaths and mass killing but changed families’ relationships with relatives between the North and the South. Many people were fighting against family and killing people that they knew…

Novel: the American Object From the beginning, America has been all about creativity and the weaving of tales. From the manipulation of the Boston Massacre, to famous documents like the Constitution, and speeches such I Have a Dream and the Gettysburg Address. It is not present in just famous examples, however. This creativity can be seen in tall tales carried by mouth and hoaxes in newspapers, magazines and journals. One of the most popular forms of this creativity has been in the written…