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Grant and Lee were both great generals who. Who was the superior leader? Lee was a “text book” general; he followed rules and strategies reflecting his education. Grant, on the other hand, was a more impulsive general (Mcleod) Indifferent to rules; he followed what he thought best. They are complete opposites on how they wage war. How do you judge the superior leader? They came from completely different backgrounds. Lee is the superior leader because of his tactical skill, engineering knowledge,…

Cathy Willoughby Stewart Edwards, Ph.D. History 1301 07 November 2017 1362 Varon, Elizabeth R. Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, 258 pp. Appomattox begins with an overview of two opposing military leaders and their inner circle adversaries of the Civil War. A northerner from a small town in Point Pleasantville, Ohio known as Lieutenant General U. S. Grant and General Robert Edwards Lee a southerner born on a plantation…

“O Captain! My Captain!” written by Walt Whitman is a brief poem about the murder of the sixteenth president of the United State, Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Whitman witnessed one of his idols win one of the most significant wars in history that caused many casualties and fatalities; The Civil War. Such an event caused for celebration despite the amount of blood shed, however, a few days after the war ended the beloved president was assassinated. Abraham Lincoln could no longer see the pride and joy…

The year 1865 was a tumultuous time for America and politically for Abraham Lincoln. The Civil War, a loss of so many American lives, was coming to an end, but at an incredible cost. The U.S. Congress approved the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery. However, this act caused the assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth after the end of the war on April 14, 1865. In May, the remaining Confederate forces surrendered. The estimated total casualties were 620,000 American deaths.…

Abraham Lincoln kept the country together at any cost even when it seemed to be irreparably splitting apart. As Lincoln was being sworn in, the South seceded, and Lincoln gave his inaugural speech to inform them of his views and dreams of a still united country. His Gettysburg Address came in a desperate time for the nation, as the civil war was in full swing, and it seemed that neither side would give up. Finally, his second inaugural speech came as the North was winning, and Lincoln saw an end…

A rhetorical device is a technique a write uses to establish an underlying meaning. In Marc Antony’s remembrance speech at Caesar’s funeral, rhetorical devices were used to convince the audience that Brutus was deceitful. Additionally, in President Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”, it is evident that the usage of these devices helped to persuade American citizens to unite and remember those who died for our country during the Battle of Gettysburg. Lastly, rhetorical devices are present in Hillary…

Clara Barton Who? Clara Harlowe Barton was born on December 25, 1821, in Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest of 5 children in her family. Caring for her ill brother was the only experience with medicine she had before she worked with soldiers. What? Before any involvement with the Civil War, Barton helped suffering soldiers by establishing an organization to distribute goods to them, and nursing those who were wounded. During the Civil War, she was superintendent of nurses in Major…

There are always new challenges to come every few years or so. For instance, women didn’t get the right to vote until 1920. On down the line slavery ended with the help of president Abraham Lincoln in the year of 1865. Everyone is fighting for some rights or cause in this world, but women have to fight for so much more of not being judged by what role we are supposed to carry out in a family environment and working economy. Even when it comes to criminal punishment, we struggle by the hand’s of…

During the late eighteen hundreds things were changing rapidly. Many states had left the Union and opinions about slavery was dividing communities apart. One man called Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer from Kentucky was elected presidency in 1860, even though only had 40% of the popular vote as stated in www.history.com. When Lincoln was elected it caused some southern states to leave the Union and form their own nation. John Wilkes Boothe was one of the many haters of Lincoln. Boothe was violently…

Much of the economic advancement that is seen during the gilded age was brought about because of a handful of successful businessmen. Andrew Carnegie was the sole man responsible for the advances in steel production. Carnegie, like many other wealthy, rose from the bottom, beginning as a mailboy in a telegraph office to a job at the railroad all the way up to his successful steel company. he made farsighted investments in iron which ended up paying very well. he built the largest steel mill in…