Essays on Confederacy

There are many reasons why Lincoln decided to issue and implement the Emancipation Proclamation back in 1862. His main goal was to shift the war and to free the slaves. The slaves that were only affected were those in the United States and not those who were in the Confederacy (Guelzo 1). He wanted to make it more of a political agenda rather than a morally based war. During that time, Lincoln was in a difficult situation, mainly in military. The North experienced to many battles lost so the Northerners started to complain about the war. So Lincoln believed ...

Battle of Columbus 16 April 1865

Battle of Columbus 16 April 1865

Introduction

The Battle of Columbus happens to be the final battle of the Civil War. On the Easter of 1865, a day after the assassination of President Lincoln by a Marylander, the Battle of Columbus took place in Columbus, Georgia. The Civil War revolved around the idea of white supremacy and privilege and the need to justify the rights of the slaves in the nation. The Union triumph in the Battle of Nashville allowed for the General George H. Thomas to order General James H. Wilson to rally forward into the Deep South and ...

Why the North Won the Civil War

As many understand now, the Confederacy’s economy was based almost entirely on what it could produce agriculturally. Essentially, the economy was built on the backs of slaves and when the war began, there was only one iron foundry south of the Mason Dixon line. Confederate leaders remained sure this, as well as cotton and other agricultural endeavors would be enough to see the states through the war and beyond. They may have been correct in believing this at the time, as Britain relied heavily on the cotton resources to continue their textile industries, and Confederate leaders assumed if ...

After the conclusion of the American Civil War (1861-1865), the United States forces returned to front line duties such as engaging in brutal combat with Native American tribes and controlling domestic disorders. The next significant war took place in 1898 when the federal government endorsed military aid for the Cuban revolutions being waged against the Spanish Empire. It was during what would later be known as the Spanish-American War that the weaknesses of the United States Army and Navy became evident. Apparently, rather than building a strong force after their Civil War, the US units either demobilized or only ...

Introduction

Mission command analysis can be defined in the light of its application and perception in philosophy, in war fighting function, and as a system. In the lens of philosophy, mission command can be viewed as the directive and authority employed by the commander to transmit his influence and demands to the other fighters and ensures uniform and unity of purpose in the hands of adversaries. In the light of the war functions, mission command can be viewed as the systems, people, and other resources that are employed by the commanders for the common purpose of the war. On the ...

Divide Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War

Historical accounts often define important milestones for the human society. It is a creed that Ivan Musicant’s book Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War lives up to as it defines a watershed moment not only in the history of America’s naval operations but also in all other aspects of its human development. The book gives a detailed overview of America’s naval operations during the period of the civil war. Ivan Musicant’s ability to paint such a vivid picture of the events at the time is aided by the use of both primary ...

Until late in the civil war, the Confederate blockade-runners were highly effective in sustaining the Confederacy. As had been orchestrated by the confederate, the blockade-runners served the interests of the Confederacy as they serviced the southern economy. One of the key reasons the Confederate blockade-runners were able to serve the interests of the Confederacy for the better part of the civil war undetected was that they were used in the guise of individual ships as opposed to confederate ships. Officially, the ships belonged to private individuals, although every party in the civil war knew that the ships were headed ...

The Industrial Revolution began in England in the late 18th century, spreading all across Europe before it finally reached North America and Canada at a later date. The late arrival of the revolution to the colonies was, at least in part, due to the distance between them and the countries of Europe. We can, however, also demonstrably say that the slowness of the revolution in Canada at least was due to the sheer distances involved in the colonies themselves. This paper will examine the industrial revolution in Canada, moving from general terms to specific ones, in order to show ...

The American civil war in the West: Grant’s River War

Introduction The American Civil War is among the majorly discussed wars in the history of the United States. Ideally, Civil War is considered a central event in the U.S historical civilisation. While it is evident that the revolution that occurred in 1776-1783 facilitated the establishment of the United States, the American Civil War of 1861-1865 provided a suitable platform for the determination of the future of the United States (Doyle, 2014). Fundamentally, it offered the solutions to two major questions initially created by the revolution, and these included whether the United States was going to be transformed into a ...

Leadership qualities can be seen in many fields, from business to academics to politics. One man whose name is synonymous with political leadership was Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was born in poverty in Kentucky in 1809, lived in cabins on the Kentucky and Indiana frontier, and was almost entirely self-educated. In fact, Lincoln taught himself the rudiments of law so that he could work as a lawyer and later as a legislator in the state of Illinois during the 1830s and 1840s. In 1847, he followed this with a short tenure in the United States House of Representatives where he ...

Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had several specific military advantages over the Union Army. Ultimately, however, the Union Army triumphed. General Lee and the officers and men under his command could not overcome the inherent strengths of the Union Army and ultimately were defeated.

Lee’s Army: The Strengths

The Army of Northern Virginia had three major military advantages compared to the North (“Confederate States Had Many Advantages at Civil War Outset,” 2014). The North had to invade them and obtain the complete surrender of the South. Otherwise, the North could not preserve the Union (Wells, 2013). This meant that the South could ...

1. An American who have made a difference in America and the world in the 2000s includes President Barack Obama, who has managed to change the condition of the American economy after the 2008 financial crisis, brokered Iran Nuclear deal, passed Obamacare, facilitated jobs, and brought back the confidence of investors in the American economy. 2. The positives of the reconstruction era were the reunification of the South and North, expansion of the economy, blacks started to become politically active, Freedmen's Bureau, states could not restrict the rights of citizens (Amendment 14), all men had right to vote (Amendment ...

List the reasons for and against Confederacy. Did financial matters take priority?

In the 1850s and 1860s, cracks in the relationship between Britain and British North America began to appear due to North Brunswick stamps being bought by cents, not pence, and they had Charles Connell’s, not Queen Victoria’s, face on them. There were many Canadians during the nineteenth century who felt that uniting with the United States of America was impractical, unpopular, unnatural, but entirely necessary. There were many Canadians who felt that they had so much more in common with the United States that it made sense to unite together from an economic, cultural, defensive and historical ...

The Civil War was fought primarily according to one interpretation not to end slavery but instead only to save the union and bring the rebel Confederate states back into the fold. On the other hand, it is very hard to argue that from the Confederate perspective secession was about anything else except slavery. Well, known Confederate leaders are well known to have said that the purpose of secession was to protect slavery as the South's own "peculiar institution." While the original war aims of the Union was not originally to actually end slavery through the course of the war ...

When it comes to selecting Civil War battlefields to visit, you have to have Vicksburg, Mississippi, on your list. The Mississippi River ran through the heart of the South, and the Union wanted control of the river so that it could hack the Confederacy apart. This is why the battle for Vicksburg was so hard fought, and it is why so much attention has been made to making it was of the central memorials that remain to commemorate the Civil War. There are 1,325 different historic markers and monuments in the park, and a 16-mile road allows cars ...

Introduction

The secession or sequential exit of the Southern states from the Union was a major event in the American history that led to the Civil war. Southern secession was seen as a necessity in the plantation economy based Southern states and betrayal in the eyes of the Union. Therefore, the main research question to be explored is the factors that led to the Secession of the Southern states. The factors that played an important role in session of Southern states were abolitionist movement in the South, violation of the sectional balance and economics of slavery in the South (Meadwell & ...

Before the commencement of the American Civil War of between 1861 and 1865, the United States beheld the secession of the Southern States and the ensuing rise of the Confederacy to fight the Northern States that remained under the Union. Apparently, political, social, and economic disparities in the slavery system warranted the rise of Pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces that eventually took up arms against each other. In The Political Divisions that Contributed to Civil War, Michael Holt insists that sectional divisions and tension over black slavery did not “produces war” in the United States (401). According to the author, ...

Before the Southerners and Northerners took up arms against each other to fight the American Civil War of between 1861 and 1865, the former faction seceded to form the Confederacy and protect the slavery system from abolition. Apparently, disparities over the rights of persons of African descent were enough to warrant the battle, and as one would expect, the situation did not change after 1865. In what historians have since dubbed as the Reconstruction Era, the Northern and Southern States faced new dilemmas after the Civil War that not only emancipated slaves but also preserved the Union by dismantling ...

Tecumseh, who was a Shawnee Indian political leader and also a war chief. He had taken part in a number of raids including Kentucky and Tennessee frontier settlements that were in the 1780s and had emerged a prominent leader by 1800. He had his group of young warriors and their families lived in the village on the White River in the East-central Indiana. He had a younger brother who had a number of visions which transformed him into a prominent religious figure in the Indian religions and making him a spiritual leader. He was referred to as The Open ...

Introduction

This is a book that speaks on the American civil war that took place between 1861-1865. The war was fought between the North and South over the issues of retention of slavery and states rights especially the declining power of the southern states. These issues had been there before but they were aggravated further by the re-election of Abraham Lincoln as president since he had been against slavery. The major issue that caused the war though was slavery since the southern states were mostly agriculturists while the North were industrialists. At that time whether to abolish slavery or not was a ...