Vicksburg

South as an excuse to free the slaves in the Southern States saying that the South could use the slaves against us. In 1863 the Union had two major victories against the South, one in the East and one in the West. In the West we won the battle of Vicksburg, and in the East we won the important battle of Gettysburg with cost many tens of thousands their lives. These victories insured that I would win the election of 1864. I was elected again and was inaugurated on March 4, 1865. In my inaugural…

released in 2003, is all about obtaining justice. The opening scenes include a fatal shooting that results in the death of several law firm employees, one of them being a father named Jacob Wood. His wife, Celeste, files a civil lawsuit against Vicksburg Firearms for providing the suicidal shooter with multiple lethal weapons. Two years later in New Orleans, the case finally beings to take shape. However, the true plot of the film isn’t about the Wood family; it revolves around a jury consultant…

On Monday, May 22, 1865, a small band of soldiers from the 22nd and 28th Iowa regiments left their camp. The night before, there had been a heavy rainstorm. Their destination was a large peach orchard not far from the rows of white canvas. In previous visits to the orchard, soldiers had discovered a kennel of “bloodhounds,” ferocious animals trained for the pursuit of enslaved people and believed by the soldiers to have been used in the apprehension of Union soldiers who escaped from Confederate…

On the afternoon May 22, 1865, a small band of soldiers from the 22nd and 28th Iowa regiments left their camp. There had been a heavy rain the night before. Their destination was a large peach orchard not far from the rows of white canvas. Some of the men had visited the orchard before. They had discovered a kennel of “bloodhounds,” ferocious animals whom they knew were once used in the pursuit of enslaved people and believed had been placed on the trail of Union prisoners of war. The owner of…

Sacrifice In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, sacrifice is important to the Logan family, even if the ultimate goal is difficult to achieve. The Logans sacrifice their personal safety and the ownership of their land in several instances in order to fight for what their beliefs. Stacey, putting a comforting arm around both Christopher-John and Little Man said to them, “‘ Just' you wait and see. He'll be just' fine come morning’" (216). Papa got shot in the head and his leg…

Medgar Evers Introduction: Medgar Evers was a black Civil Rights activist who fought against discrimination and inequality in the 1960s. Not only was Evers a veteran of WW11, but he was also a founding member of RCNL (Regional Council of Negro Leadership). Evers fought for equality in his own way, even through all the discrimination during that era. Evers has a reputation for being a genius. Medgar Evers was assassinated, fighting for what he believed in: equality of rights. The determination of…

Early on in the Civil War, George McClellan was extremely successful. Originally, he started out as the leader of a volunteer Ohio army and did a phenomenal job of training the volunteer soldiers, which resulted in his promotion to major general of the main Union army. As a major general, he won a string of small battles in the western part of Virginia. However, as the Civil War progressed, McClellan was unable to make the right decisions in crucial moments. He was simply too cautious and…

During a time when people were discriminated by race, punished for their color, and condescended to because of their culture, innumerable African Americans were forced into tricky situations that required a large amount of courage to find themselves out of. Papa, a character in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor, showed courage that came out of him, because of the selfish acts that the “whites” did to him and his African American friends. In the novel, Papa showed the most…

Grant in charge of all Union armies thinking thus was a person he could trust to lead scene Grant had previously won major victories at the Siege of the Donelson, Battle of Vicksburg, and Battle of Chattanooga. Lincoln choose the people in his cabinet and only picked the men he felt most capable of handling the duties of the posts he asked them to fill. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin had called the Lincoln Cabinet "A Team of…

- The Civil War, 1862 Think about the strengths and weaknesses of General McClellan vs. General Lee. Under whom would you rather have served and why? With all seriousness, I am African and if I had a choice, I would choose General McClellan for obvious reasons. That being said, if we took my ethnicity out of the equation, I would still choose General McClellan for two reasons. The first reason is that General McClellan hard a strong resolve. With great tension between him and the white house,…