Essays Tagged: "Confederate"

US Civil War Turning Point

ertain to proclaim the north victorious. The north's adventage in manpower was evident, however the confederate's strategy seemed more efficient. After the initial battle at Bull Run, the north was mo ... be victorious at Ft. Henry, and Ft. Donaldson. Amazingly, in just ten days U.S. Grant defeated the Confederates at both sites, making the security of Kentucky and Tennesse complete. Now the strategy ...

(4 pages) 104 0 3.7 Feb/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

The Republican Party

-1864 and 1864-1868. The changes in the party reflected the attitude in the North as opposed to the confederate, democratic South. The main issue that divided the two was slavery and its implications ... of the Republican party with support from the South. Examples of this can be found in the fact that Confederate officials were not barred from public office, compensation for lost slaves was not ruled ...

(2 pages) 71 0 5.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

What did the Civil War bring to America?

son, "Amateurs Go To War".Before discussing the war itself, one must understand the Union's and the Confederate's arguments and reasons for going to war. Let's start at the beginning, when the South w ... inally, when Lincoln took the office, all of the federal arsenals in the south have been overrun by Confederate forces. In Fort Sumter, South Carolina, federal troops were literally surrounded and the ...

(8 pages) 205 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

Letters of General George E. Pickett of the C.S.A.

hat went against the Rebel cause, leading such an army would prove to be exhausting. Whether or not Confederate leadership was an overwhelming factor in Rebel demise is uncertain. This essay will offe ... deployed at the right time, could have claimed victory on several battles which instead resulted in Confederate defeat. Pickett suffered these hard truths of the Confederate command:His greatest battl ...

(8 pages) 31 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The failure of the Reconstruction, following the civil war.

. Although the two main goals of the reconstruction, giving blacks civil rights, and re-uniting the Confederate and Union states, were met, they weren't stretched out to completion, and at the end, le ... y, which allowed it to set the standards for states to reapply for re-admission to the country. The Confederate States had to agree with the amendments and have a constitution made that was suitable f ...

(3 pages) 149 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

Racial Discrimination, all about it. Not just one skin "color", this applies to everyone.

cial discrimination doesn't necessarily have to be religious-linked.For example, the Civil War. The Confederate's were battling the Union's because they wanted control over the African-American slaves ...

(2 pages) 127 3 3.6 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Random Facts about the Civil War.

Bull Run Generals (Won by Confederates)Union- RickettsConfederate-Stonewall JacksonGettysburg Generals (Won by Union)Union- Me ... Union- RickettsConfederate-Stonewall JacksonGettysburg Generals (Won by Union)Union- Meade, ReynoldsConfederate- Robert E. Lee, Heth*One of the more interesting personalities to participate in the bat ... until he was wounded. Injured and exhausted, the old man made his way through groups of victorious Confederates who remarkably allowed him to go home unmolested. After the battle, he was elevated to ...

(4 pages) 54 4 2.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

Explain how diplomacy and naval forces became the lesser known keys to victory for both the Confederacy and the Union, why was the north able to succeed in both?

increasingly effective as the war went on. Although the Union blockade never thoroughly sealed the Confederate coastline, it was successful in causing Southern imports and exports to drop drastically ... s was caused when a US Navy warship stopped a British vessel in international waters to capture two Confederate ambassadors, James Mason and John Slidell. The British were outraged at having one of th ...

(2 pages) 33 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Reconstruction was or was not radical

d the time of progress for African Americans' legal rights. Although the major goals (reuniting the Confederate and Union states and granting blacks civil rights) of the Radical Republicans reconstruc ...

(5 pages) 80 0 3.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Dear British Foreign minister

Dear British Foreign Minster, I am an American Confederate Diplomat who has travelled all the way to England to seek your assistance against the No ... nal laws, stopped the British mail packet the Trent sailing from Havana to England and arrested two Confederate diplomats and their secretaries who were on a diplomatic mission to England. Who knows w ... spill over the northern border to the British North American Colonies.Sincerely yours,Mahmoud AttiaConfederate Diplomat

(3 pages) 22 0 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

How did the clash between states right's VS the Union contribute to the outbreak of the American civil war?

ch basically means that they thought that the ultimate source of power lied in each separate state. Confederate president Jefferson Davis once said that if power should cloud the view of the union, th ... th. He said "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery."Confederate President Jefferson Davis believed in seceding from the union, where Union President Abr ...

(2 pages) 37 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

The Shelter in Fantasy: A Structuralist's View of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Bierse's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge portrays an execution scene in which Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate, is hanged by Federals in northern Alabama during the Civil War. The story penetrates in ... military career, he falls into the snare laid by a Federal spy. He mistakes the spy's identity as a Confederate soldier and takes his intelligence into truth. Thus, the river, which is supposed to be ...

(4 pages) 55 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Shelter in Fantasy: A Structuralist's View of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Bierse's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge portrays an execution scene in which Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate, is hanged by Federals in northern Alabama during the Civil War. The story penetrates in ... military career, he falls into the snare laid by a Federal spy. He mistakes the spy's identity as a Confederate soldier and takes his intelligence into truth. Thus, the river, which is supposed to be ...

(4 pages) 30 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Reasons Why the North Won the War Between the States

The Confederate South, which is known for its deep military history, proved to be no competition for an ... , leadership, and economy are just a few factors that contributed to the Union's dominance over the confederate succeeded states. The Union won the civil war by economic fortitude and industrial domin ... triking swiftly-in modern parlance, by an offensive blitzkrieg strategy (Zebrowski 225). Behind the Confederate President Davis' command the Confederacy sat in a defensive stance, waiting for a northe ...

(6 pages) 115 1 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Confederate War Effort 'Why were the Confederate states able to sustain their war effort until the end of 1862?'

large army, but that they could feed and equip it as well. However, often not as well noted are the Confederates numerous other advantages to their favor.First of all, the Confederate only needed to d ... ossibility and hope that that either the French or the British might join in on the war helping the Confederates, which gave the South more of a will to fight. They would have done this due to their n ...

(3 pages) 45 1 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

Do you think Reconstruction is good?

the Civil War, and so he issued a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. It was to excuse any Confederate that would promise to support the Union, as well as the Constitution. If the state in wh ...

(3 pages) 24 0 0.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Who won the civil war?

war in a united country. they say that abraham lincoln and his congress declared war because of the confederate's succession from the union. many students just take that information in and do not thin ...

(1 pages) 33 0 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Reconstruction Era (1865-1877)

After the Confederate South was defeated by the Union North in the civil war, there was much time needed for r ... cept defeat of the civil war, eliminate slavery and allow African American education, not allow any Confederate officers into political power, and swear allegiance to the Union and to the Constitution ... roperty restored to them except for their former slaves. This oath would not be allowed to any high Confederate Officials and those who owned slaves with $20,000 worth of property. This plan was very ...

(6 pages) 107 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Weapons of the civil war

th. The North, also called the Union, fought to keep the country intact. The South, also called the Confederate, fought for their right to own slaves. In every war, weapons are made deadlier and faste ... s a muzzle velocity of950ft/sec. The Whitworth rifle was made by the British and used mainly by the Confederate army.It used hexagonal shaped bullets loaded from the muzzle, had a 33in barrel and was ...

(5 pages) 46 0 3.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

The Confedrate Nation

The Confederate IdeologyThe Confederate ideology was the founded on their cultural lifestyle and the imp ... men of the south. The daily tasks were handed down to the slave, while belle's lived the rich life. Confederate culture was often compared to romanticism. Southern belles and others often saw themselv ... e in the Industrialization of the Union, and found it to be the "wrong doing of the Northern race." Confederates worked, lived and fought for an agricultural society. "Agriculture lay at the base of O ...

(3 pages) 13 0 0.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History