Essays on Confederate Army

The Unionists are considered victorious during the American Civil War and there are several factors which enabled them to win the war in 1865. One of these factors is the Unionists’ campaigns in the Eastern and Western Theaters of the war. In the Eastern Theater, Unionists’ campaigns were launched in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. At first, the Unionists struggle due to the leadership of General Lee of the Confederate Army. However, they controlled major food supply in their campaigns in the West Virginia. In the Western Theater, the Unionists campaigns were launched in North and South Carolina, Tennessee, ...

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Battles are either won or lost because of a commander’s decision. As a leader of his team, the commander is the central authority when it comes to the military decision making process. But underlying these decisions are his subordinates who are often tasked with making plans and course of actions. These courses of actions are often laid-out by subordinate officers, which make them highly influential in the outcome of a commander’s decision. Over the years, standard procedures have been developed and observed when making decisions in the military. Of particular interest is the seven decision-making steps outlined ...

Why were the battles at Gettysburg and Vicksburg significant? How did they change the tide of war strategically?

The Battle of Vicksburg was significant due to the important role it played in restoring dwindling morale in the Union Army. Before that point, Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg had ended in defeat for the Union, but Ulysses S. Grant saw a chance to make up for that in Vicksburg. Once there, one Union Army handled two Confederate armies at once, defeating them after a pitched battle. Tens of thousands of prisoners were taken, the Mississippi River fell under Union Control, and the Confederate army became bisected, cutting their effectiveness in half. This made them a lot easier to defeat for the remainder of ...

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The movie “Gods and Generals” is set out in the American civil war and its starts with the onset of the war with General Robert E. Lee declining the federal offer to lead the union army and instead choosing to be loyal to his Virginia state and agreeing to lead the local Virginian army into the war. “Gods and Generals” makes a remarkably successful attempt to be historically precise, and most of the events and people in the movie represent history with some remarkable degree of accuracy. However, “Gods and Generals” does make some important omissions of historical events and ...

William Faulkner (1857 – 1962) was a writer who came to be identified with the Literature of the South, since much of his work is set in his home state of Mississippi. After the Civil War the era of Reconstruction began in the South, but Faulkner in “Barn Burning” demonstrates his opinion that Reconstruction was a failure and that the South became mired in economic poverty. Reconstruction in the South began very well, but the white political hegemony in the southern states effectively disbanded the growing black middle class and substituted share-cropping for slavery.

In order to replace the plantation system that ...