Robert E. Lee

How was The Battle of Gettysburg a Turning Point in The Civil War? The Civil War was a war that was fought in 1860. The war was 4 years long and many battle and deaths had taken place. The war had started because the Southern States: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee known as The Confederacy had seceded from The Union (The United States of America). The war was into its third year when The Battle of…

As the Revolutionary war faded in Bella’s memory, another image filled her mind. The smell was one they remembered from their adventures during the Revolutionary war. It was gunpowder! “Not another war”, was all Bella could think. As Bella looked down, she saw that she were dressed in a union uniform. Bella, was not shocked nor anxious, but thrilled to be back in a place like this once again, she wondered to herself “why am I back in a battlefield? Why am I wearing a men’s uniform?” Bella,…

Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers from both armies were casualties in the three-day battle. In July of 1863, General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia of 75,000 men and the 97,000 man Union Army of the Potomac, under George G. Meade, concentrated together at Gettysburg and fought the Battle of Gettysburg. Of the more than 2,000 land engagements of the Civil War…

History always has a way of repeating itself, but for some events there is hope it will not happen again. The President is theoretically one of the most well respected people in the United States. Sadly this has not always been the case and probably never will be. This can happen due to different views and opinions on how things should be done. In Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America forever, it explains the approach to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination…

The book Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara, illustrates the American Civil War at the Battle of Gettysburg. This was a three-day battle in 1863. This book draws you in and really makes grasp what it was like to be a witness as well as apart of the Civil War. The battle was in no way humane. Shaara conveys the brutality of both views from the Confederates and the Union side, emphasizes humanity of army generals, and showed each side could not comprehend their opponents’ way of thinking. Shaara…

The two previous surrenders occurred at Appomattox Court House, in Virginia between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant. The second and largest surrender was at Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. It was between General William Tecumseh Sherman and General Joseph E. Johnston. Sherman took no pity on Southerners. He was the one that burnt Atlanta you know. They say he burned a swath of land fifty miles wide from Atlanta to Savannah. His troops burned crops, killed livestock…

General Robert E. Lee leads to the Confederacy in search of North Carolina, where the troops could escape the Union persecution. Lee and his troops finally escape the eight-day barricade performed by the Union soldiers. The Confederacy stomps towards the Carolinas, but the march comes to a complete stop when the supplies become limited and the troops become malnourished. The food and water shortage is the real rival for the South. The Union captures all of the southern supply crates, forcing Lee…

Wade Hampton III was a man of great stature, born on March 28, 1818 in Charleston, South Carolina to one of the most influential families amongst the Southern States. Hampton grew up on a booming plantation that was kept up by many slaves and servants. He attended school at South Carolina College, now know as the University of South Carolina and graduated from there. He studies law for two years before he had to come home to take care i. In 1838, Hampton married a woman by the name of Margaret…

Stories are told of the soldiers bravery in battle, shook hands and split their rations amongst themselves. Ulysses Grant greeted Robert E. Lee with respect and admiration and Lee returned with humility and grace. It was a momentous occasion, one to celebrate reunion and reconciliation. It was heavily romanticized, a beautiful and symbolic picture at the end of a gruesome war. But this was not the full…

would serve well in. From this position Grant would go on to claim many more victories for the Union. The biggest of these victories would happen at the Appomattox Court House, on May 9th, 1865, when General Grant was successful in making General Robert E. Lee surrender, which ultimately led to the end of the Civil…