Robert E. Howard

Zebulon Pike was born on January 5,1779 to Isabella Brown and Zebulon Pike Senior in the little town of Lamberton which is now a part of Trenton, New Jersey. He never had a formal education but he loved to read. He joined the army at the age of 15 following in his father’s footsteps and was promoted to cadet at the age of 20. He had his first mission at the age of 26. His first mission was a reconnaissance mission to scout out the source of the upper Mississippi River. He left August 9, 1805…

of 75,000 and the Union’s casualties totalled to 23,000/88,000. 160,000 people were involved. In Rappahannock, 866 Federals were killed and 523 Confederates killed with thousands of rebel casualties. The first day of the battle was July 1. General Robert E. Lee of the Confederates fought between General George G. Meade’s Union Army of the Potomac. The next day, July 2, the Confederates attacked the Federals. General Lee wanted his army to attack both flanks of…

Inherit the Wind, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is classified as historical non-fiction. This dramatic play features two well-known lawyers, Matthew Harrison Brady and Henry Drummond who are both summoned into the little town of Hillsboro for a young man named Bertram Cates. Bertram Cates, a school teacher was caught teaching evolution to his students which violated the Butler Act. Matthew Harrison Brady was against evolution, but Henry Drummond had opposite views. Throughout the…

Confederate The Battle of Chattanooga Started on November 23, 1863. On Top of Lookout mountain following the battle Of Chickamauga. General Braxton Bragg Led the Confederate army of 46,200 men against The Union General and Maj. Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of 56,400 Men. The Battle Took Place on Lookout Mountain Which is overlooking The Confederate City Chattanooga. Chattanooga Served As A Train Station For The Confederate Supplies. The Confederate Knows That they cannot lose Chattanooga, because if…

leaders of the Confederacy were all potentially guilty of treason, according to the constitutional definition of the crime. While Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Nathan Bedford Forrest had different situations, they were all technically guilty of treason, but each one of them was punished differently. As one of the most well known war heroes of his time, Robert E. Lee was also one of the most distinguished and respected generals in the United States. Though he was against secession and…

from July 1st to July 3, 1863. It is the most well known battle of the Civil war, due to the amount of casualties, its large size and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. General George G. Meade led 90,000 Union soldiers to a defeat over General Robert E. Lee’s 75,000 Confederate soldiers. In May of 1863 Lee took his forces and defeated Union General Joseph Hooker at the battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. This defeat gave Lee the courage to try and invade and take over Pennsylvania. He…

out and Thomas's home state of Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, Thomas joined the Confederate army and made his reputation for bravery and got his nickname at the Shenandoah Valley Campaign later the same year. Jackson served under General Robert E. Lee for a lot of the civil war, General Lee liked jackson because he was a important factor in many major civil war battles. The major battles Thomas Jackson was in is the battle of Bull Run, the second battle of Bull Run, the battle of…

Civil War’s first battle that involved urban combat. It had nearly 200,000 soldiers present between both sides, meaning this is the highest concentrated battle in the civil war. Leader of the Federal (Union) side was Ambrose E. Burnside, and the leader of the confederates was Robert E. Lee. The Union's plan was to use 60,000 men to take the southern flank of Prospect Hill, more specifically Marye's Heights,while holding the south in urban areas and then flushing them out. The south positioned…

At this point, the Confederate hold on Fort Fisher was untenable. The seaward batteries had been silenced, almost all of the north wall had been captured, and Ames had fortified a bastion within the interior. Terry, however, had concluded to finish the battle that night. Ames, ordered to maintain the offensive, organized a flanking maneuver, sending some of his men to advance outside the land wall, and come up behind the Confederate defenders of the last traverse. Within a few minutes the…

From a little small town to a blood bath, Gettysburg had become a battle with the most casualties during the Civil War. In the summer of 1863, the Civil War had been going on for three years. Times were difficult, and both the Confederate and Union armies needed an end to this horrible war. In various ways, the Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War. The main reasons include the instance number of casualties from both sides, the disadvantages of the Confederate Army, and the…