Sherman's March to the Sea

For a copious aggregate of years, historians have attempted to determine why individuals took part in the American Civil War. Furthermore, numerous experts have conjectured on why it necessitated a bloody skirmish to overhaul a nation that had previously been fragmented due to the diverse ideologies of the North and the South. In his novel What They Fought For, James M. McPherson avows that even though the soldiers of both sides originated from the same motherland, it was their disparate…

First, I was born. I do not remember the event firsthand, but several persons who I hold in high regard assure me that it did in fact happen, at approximately ten o’clock on the morning of August twenty-eighth, Year of Our Lord 1998. Shortly thereafter, my parents made the drive from the hospital in Montgomery, Alabama back to the small, white country church where my dad worked as preacher. It may be more correct to say that we drove back to the church parsonage, but this parsonage was only a…

Nathan Bedford Forrest once said, "war means fighting, and fighting means killing." The Civil War is known as America’s bloodiest conflict in history. Thousands of people died of disease and approximately 620,000 soldiers died in the line of duty (Civil War Casualties). During the Civil War, many groups of people were affected as they lived through the conflict between the Northern and Southern states. For some groups of people, they experienced negative impacts, while for others it was not as…

Savagery. Hunger. Pain. Loss. War plagues the human condition in ways that no other experience can, understandably inspiring many authors through the course of human culture to set their story in the locale of war. However, on the brink between modern warfare technology and ancient battle tactics, the already gruesome American Civil War elucidates another point of intrigue in being one of the most fatal wars statistically in recorded history (Dutch). Amongst the horror and tragedy created during…

The South only had 11 states (Ushistory.org). Thus making the population small with 9 million people and 3.5 million were slaves. There was around 750,000 to 1.2 million enlisted in the war (Library of Congress). The North set up a blockade in the sea so the cotton farmers and other farmers could not send out their materials during this whole war ( Lutz). The South could not get any exports so they ran out of a lot of supplies late in the war (Schulman). This also, could not get Europe in the…

ARMY has been always my biggest dream. Growing up with my dad in the military, I’ve always admired the armed forces, especially the ARMY. I have seen in movies how soldiers execute orders; but I’ve always wondered about how those orders or plans came to be. As I progressed through high school, I had a little understanding of the leaders in the military. Being in the SROTC program, I’ve learned more about the planning and strategic operation of the ARMY and the chain of command. In this chain of…

In 1776, the Revolutionary War was fought to give us the rights and the land we love. Through the Frontier Movement, settlers sought to establish a sea to sea exploration and development of the West. Publishing Homestead Act and other such land grabs, the U.S. government inspired a procession of settlement from Savannah to San Francisco. In all of this, the incentive was the acquisition of land, all of…

From the beginning of the war the North had the advantage is many aspects. One major thing the North had in its favor was the population, the northern population was about twenty-two million whereas the south only had about five and a half million white people. Southern slaves, a large part of the population, were clearly no help in the fighting. The industrial gap was another major reason for the war ending like it did, the North had the ability to produce anything it needed to win the war. The…

1. Abraham Lincoln, born on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Kentucky, is most known for being the sixteenth president of the United States. The time in which he was president was a hard time in American History, The Civil War. Before Lincoln had become president, he served as a legislator in Illinois; he also ran for U.S. Senate but he lost to Stephen Douglas. It was a memorable time in history because Lincoln went on to become the very first Republican president in the United States. Not only…

1. Although slavery proved to be a major cause of the Civil War, several other factors contributed to the war between Northern and Southern States. The issue of states’ rights became a secondary cause for the Civil War. Southern politicians like John C. Calhoun contended that the states should be able to protect the institution of slavery by canceling out any laws that the Federal Government tried to pass that were unconstitutional. The issue of state’s rights as the cause of the Civil War is…