Essays on Confederates

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 ...

A total war is characterized by the unrestricted use of weapons, unspecified combatants and gross disregard for any prevalent war laws. The onset, progress and termination of the Civil War in the US, however, took a different perspective despite the war being the bloodiest in the US history. Triggered by the formation of the Confederate States of America by the seceded seven slave states in the South, the war was substantially controlled and limited by the Lincolns administration and therefore did not achieve the status of a total war. Despite the bitterness amongst the Southerners, Lincoln sought to wage ...

Introduction

Watergate was a controversial scandal that rocked the USA in the 1970s, following a burglary attempt at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters located in Watergate Office Complex in Washington D.C. and the alleged involvement of the then US president Richard Nixon in the cover-up. The Watergate scandal marked a historic significance in the US politics as it showed how politicians abused their power to get what they desired. The Watergate scandal brought to the surface an array of secret and illegal activities conducted by the members of the Nixon administration. These activities involved the adoption of unethical means ...

Movies have become better sources of information today. Many learning institutions teach history with movies being the aid materials. Movies provide a clear understanding of a particular concept being derived. They provide real historical events of a given society. Movies capture attention. They are a symbolic representation of the real events in the society. A movie review provides brief-detailed information about a film. The review then illustrates the relevance of that particular movie. This work focuses on a movie about the U.S history. The movie is titled “Lincoln.” The historical events illustrated in this movie are also outlined. There ...

1. The researchers studied how humans act in the case of emergency individually or in a group when they are exposed to the inaction of other people, who also witness the same emergency. Experiments were carried out to test the following hypotheses: Passive reactions of other witnesses, in this case, confederates, to an emergency situation will affect the behavior of an individual; therefore, he will be more unlikely to act than if he were the only witness of this emergency; According to the second hypothesis, if a group of naïve subject witnesses face an emergency situation, two factors ...

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 ...

The Civil War is one of the wars that determined the fate of the present United States. It is considered second in terms of importance to the victory of the combined forces of the French fleet and George Washington’s Continental Army over the British army that led to the American Independence. The result of the battle of Gettysburg could have determined the outcome of the Civil War, and therefore it is crucial to examine the factors that led to a Union victory over the Confederates. To this end, this essay will explore, compare and contrast General Lee and ...

Reconstruction that followed the end of the Civil War in 1865 was a very complicated political process that was inevitable due to the fundamental differences in the worldviews of the northerners and southerners, democrats and republicans, and finally freedmen and their former owners. At first the government granted the former slaves the right to own 40 acres of land and be independent, but later when Andrew Johnson became the President, freedmen had to return to their former workplaces and sign labour contracts with the planters. What is more, black people were not prepared for freedom and the government did ...

Question 1.

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed states: “I think that you should approach the study of history with a spirit of curiosity. Be open minded about the possibility that the story is much bigger than what has been presented.” Considering the textbook and the discussion board content, choose one topic of American History between 1492 - 1865 on which your thinking has changed to a “bigger” understanding. Generally, all historical themes contribute to the improvement of my open-mindedness and expansion of outlook, but I would like to mark the topic of the American Revolution. Indeed, the American Revolution was a crucial part ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in the month of February 1809 in Hodgenville Kentucky. During the time of his birth, his parents were living in Hardin County. They were a humble family with petite wealth. His father was Thomas Lincoln, and His mother was Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Abraham had two siblings. His elder sister was Sarah, and his younger brother was Thomas. Both of his siblings died in infancy. A local land dispute caused them to vacate their home. The entire family relocated to Perry County in Indiana. This event occurred in 1817. While at Indiana, Lincoln and his family ...

It is no secret that there are many short stories and novels written about certain periods of the humankind development. All the works have something in common (for example, they all describe an epoch or only several years – some period of time). However, they are different. This essay is aimed at showing the differences and similarities of two essays that I have read. The first short story was written by Gilbert Highet, and the second story was written by Bruce Catton.

The first similarity of both short stories is that they describe only one episode. Some may say ...

After the end of the Civil War, the country had to find a way to reunite and repair the damage done by the bitter war. The years from 1865 to 1877 are normally referred to as Reconstruction because during this time, government leaders devised plans and implemented policies in an attempt to bring the Southern states back into the government and decide a strategy for how to treat freed African Americans. Reconstruction occurred in three phases and the different plans for Reconstruction varied depending on how harshly they treated the South (“Reconstruction”).

The first plan for Reconstruction was conceived by ...

Introduction

The American Civil War stood out as perhaps the most catastrophic historical event in the history of the United States (US). The sheer propensity of the armed conflict between Union and Confederate forces resulted to more than 600,000 deaths of soldiers from both sides – a number that rendered en masse military recruitment and conscription. The pressure to reach victory was strongly felt among the ranks of Union and Confederate forces that both sides did not hesitate to advertise their need to reinforce their respective regiments. Posters, perhaps the most sophisticated and effective advertising means at the time when the ...

Introduction

Fought in the year 1863, within the town of Gettysburg, the Battle of Gettysburg remains as one of the significant events that took place during the period of American Civil War. In fact, the war became a significant “turning point” for the American Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought by the Confederate and Union Forces, which had distinct structures with regards to their operations (Abnett 22).

Size and composition

On matters regarding size and composition, the Union forces comprised of more than five hundred men some of whom where volunteer army men authorized by the congress during the period of the ...

Essay

American Civil War (1861 - 1865 years) - war between the abolitionist states of the North and the eleven slaveholding states of the South. It was the inevitable consequence of the contradictions between the two social systems in the country. The basis of these conflicts was the issue of slavery, which entirely determined the economic and political interests of the planters.

American Civil War and its causes

Before the Civil War the planters had unlimited power over their slaves. The latter, in turn, were forced to live in the most brutal and unacceptable conditions. Because of this attitude the slaves often died from exhaustion, starvation ...

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- Introduction The Civil War (1861-1865) is an unforgettable event in the history of the United States of America. This renowned war was fought between the Northern and the Southern states. The Northern states were the part of The Union. On the other hand, the Southern states had disaffiliated from the Union and were successful in forming Other names given to this War are the War for Southern Independence , the War between the States , the War of Secession and the War of the Rebellion. Although the name Civil War is greatly criticized as vague ...

The Savannah Campaign

According to Civil War Historian Anne J. Bailey, the Savannah Campaign was “the most destructive campaign against a civilian population during the Civil War (1861-65)” and is significant because it incorporated psychological warfare (2002). The campaign began in November of 1864 and lasted a little over a month. In this campaign, General William Sherman of the Union Army took his troops across Georgia to the Atlantic Ocean (Bailey 2002). By the time Sherman began his “March to the Sea” as the Savannah Campaign is often called, the Confederate Army of Tennessee had moved to Alabama. This left Georgia unprotected. According to Bailey, ...

A number of themes have been explored in the book, Confederates in the Attic. One such is the difference between the “the past” and “history.” Thus, throughout the text, this has been expounded with precise emphasis as appropriate. Hence, this essay presents an account of the theme with a view to portray how faithful to the past the histories of the Civil War are. First and foremost is the fact that the author is initially driven by his babyhood imitations of the Civil War’s legacy that evidently well up in the traditional framework pertinent in to his later ...

Over the years, questions on the issue of war have been discussed and debated over and over. One of the major questions that have always been asked is whether the civil war was inevitable. In the year 1850s, events that occurred proved that the Civil War was inevitable. More than a few that occurred in America clearly show major causes of war such infringement of civil liberties, the collapse of the two party system, and infringements of rights. These factors made the conflict/war between the South and North America inevitable. It is evident that both South and North America made ...

Few events in the critical landscape of United States history can surpass or parallel the Civil War in terms of its lasting effect in the nation’s politics, economy, and sociocultural structure. Whereas the Revolution questioned the authority of the English crown over the independent colonies in America, the Civil War saw the nation question itself in the realm of racial inequality. The events leading up to the war was a dramatic mix of political intrigue and philosophical inquiry into the nature and future of slavery as an economic and social institution. The war itself, lasting for four years, three ...

Whether happening on the American territory or abroad, the major wars did not leave the black society without hope for freedom and more rights. Although initially the hopes were minor, and the thoughts of completely equal treatment were unrealistic, the black slaves and free black people recognized that political rhetoric could be used as a basis for their fight, and it has been used successfully through times, gradually leading to the abolition of slavery and emancipation of the black people. While the wars had different effects on lives of the black people, these effects built up to become the defensive ...

Civil War history often exists in terms of the white Northern soldiers and white Southern soldiers, fighting with each other. The African Americans are shown waiting on either side to awaiting their fate. However, this is far from the truth, and no one can deny the influence of Negro American on the emergence of African Nationalism. Before the Civil War started in 1862, there were a projected four million slaves in the United States and only about 500,000 free African Americans. Only one percent of all African Americans resided in the North. White soldiers often saw the African Americans ...

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Please type your College name here Over all these many years, the story surrounding the Civil War in Helena has been essentially focused around the seven Confederate generals and also the historical day of 4th July, 1863, battle. The story of Helena in the Civil War, however, is much more multifaceted. It starts with the breakaway crisis and the blast of partisan youth taking up arms in the sectional battle. The Confederacy never protected Helena. Many soldiers from Helena left to faraway places beyond the Mississippi River to fight various other battles. Helena, Arkansas was one of ...

In 1861, the United States faced division between the North and South. The territories split because of a difference of opinions. The South or the Confederates lost the Civil War for many reasons. Although the South lost the war many historians “extols the gallantry of Confederate soldiers and insists that they had not forfeited their honor in losing to a vastly superior foe” (Janney, 6). However, there are many factors that contributed to the loss. The reasons include limited amounts of money, weapons, food, soldiers, and leadership styles and policies. While the North won the war, the performance of the South ...

The History of the American civil war was best captured by Karl Max and Fredrick Engels in the London Newspapers. The events leading to the civil war were conclusively analyzed by Karl Max in the London newspapers such as The Economist. The Britons were on whether to support the Northern states or the confederate states. The England’s position in the American civil war was in support of free trade. In the Years leading to the Civil War, the Crown was in support of the North for advocating for the elimination of slavery in North America. Karl Max argues ...

William Tecumseh Sherman was probably the greatest asset to the Union side during the American civil war. He is considered among the greatest generals that civil war of the United States of America saw. He was present in the campaigns in 1862 and 1863 that resulted in the fall of the confederate stronghold in Vicksburg along the Mississippi river. In 1864, Sherman took after Grant as a union commander and in his reign saw several important victories. He led his troops to capture the Atlantic City. His march through the Georgia and the Carolinas did a good job of undermining the ...

Introduction

The Civil War is remembered as a period of great political and social upheaval. In addition, it is a period of change in technology. Military men and inventors devised new kinds of war equipment’s like the submarine, and the repeating rifle, that brought massive change on how the world military fought wars. There were also circumstances where technology was developed and had nothing in relation to war, such as the telegraph and the railroad (Blattman & Miguel, 2010). This kind of technologies and innovations did not only change the fighting styles of the people but also changed their living styles. Some ...

Tony Horwitz examines the Confederates in the attic by looking at the events that transpired in America during the Civil war. Horwitz believes that Civil war is not over in that the Northern American states have a different perspective compared to the South and this has been the case for a long time (Horwitz 61). It is important to know that most Northern states supported the end of slavery whereas the South did not want to end slave trade. As a result, this is of the escapades that sparked the Civil war in the 19th century. Most white southerners were members of ...

Introduction

There is genuine merit in the argument that it is in human nature to be cruel to others. This supposition is favored by the responses elicited by the various subjects in experiments conducted by Milgram and by Darley and Latane. In Milgram’s experiments, subjects were instructed to increasingly inflict electric shock pain on another human every time they failed to answer a question correctly (Milgram 60). Almost all the subjects obeyed, seemingly to maintain social etiquette or avoid disapproval from the authority figure of the instructor. In Darley and Latane, several experiments showed that people are less likely to ...

The Battle of Shiloh (known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing), took place from April 6th to April 7, 1862. It was one of the biggest early activities of the American Civil War of 1861 to 1865. It was majorly an engagement between National and Confederate groups. The Union forces were led by Major General Ulysses S. Grant and Major General Don Carlos Buell while the Confederations forces were led by General Albert Sidney Johnston and General P. G. T. Beauregard. The first activities that sparked the war happened early Sunday morning of April 6, when a Yankee patrol spotted ...

Summary (Chapters 12 to 21) of Mary Chestnut’s Diary

Summary Mary Boykin Chestnut has encapsulated the experiences of her fellow Confederates at the time of the Civil War in her autobiographic novel Mary Chestnut’s Diary. Mary went through various endeavors during the Civil War with her Senator husband, James Chestnut, with most having been eye opening for her. Serving as quite a fitting historical account for the Civil War, the novel by Mary has provided deeper insights on the way Confederates carried out their resistance against the Unions (Chestnut). During the Civil War, slavery has become a highly controversial issue, although the majority from both the Union ...

Summary (Chapters 1 to 11) of Mary Chestnut’s Diary

Summary Mary Chestnut’s Diary is a creation of South Carolina author Mary Boykin Chestnut that has laid out accounts of Confederate experiences during the Civil War. As the wife of Senator James Chestnut of South Carolina, Mary had numerous opportunities to join her husband in multiple locations where some of the most notable events during the war has happened. In writing the diary, Mary thought that she would be able to contribute significantly to the history of the Civil War, particularly in showing how the Confederates resisted and struggled against Union aggression (Chestnut, 2011). For Mary, a prevailing ...

Summaries

Ambrose Bierce captured the story of a foolish lieutenant named Herman Brayle in Killed at Resaca. Brayle is someone who always wears his complete uniform while on duty but is highly inconsistent in battles. Such has led Brayle to face questioning from his superiors, although he never really changed his attitude. Yet one day, when an order tasked Brayle to deliver a letter, he took the more dangerous path going to the place of his destination. Prancing in an open field riddled by bullet shots, Brayle braved the open fire even up to the point when the Confederates successfully killed him. ...

Question 2

Conformity refers to the operation of matching attitudes, believes and behaviors to the norms of a group (Cialdini and Goldstein). Norms in this case refer to the unsaid and implicit rules that are shared by a given group of individuals and are responsible in guiding the way these individuals interact with others and in the society or a social group. In psychological, the term conformity is defined as the tendency of an individual to follow the rules that are unspoken or social behaviors that are held by the society where the individual belongs. For a long time, researchers in psychology have been ...

The inaugural addresses by both Kennedy and Lincoln have over the years been considered as being masterpieces in America’s history. Lincoln’s speech came about 50th anniversary while Kennedy speech came at the 150th anniversary. Scholars have argued that the timing of the two inaugurals might have been a coincidence. This paper seeks to compare and contrast the two inaugural addressed. This paper also argues that unity and constitutionalism were the overarching themes in the both Kennedy and Lincoln’s inaugural addresses. First of all, it is important to note that both Kennedy and Lincoln assumed office at a ...

- Analysis of the Author The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War is a historical fiction piece of writing by Michael Shaara, an American Born Italian immigrant, who has received Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this book in 1975. The book is based upon the battle of Gettysburg of American Civil War in 1863. It describes the events that took place during the war from the perspectives of troop leaders of both Confederacy and Union; how they have made their planning, took decisions and then implemented them during the war. Michael was able to understand all those ...

Final Essay Examination: HIS335 – US Civil War

Answer to Question 1 The most important factors that led to the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War were: a) the Emancipation proclamation of 1862, b) General Sherman’s 1864 March to the Sea, and ) low morale arising from poor economic planning by the South. One of the most important factors that led to the defeat of the Confederacy in the US civil war was the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862. The Southern states comprised of a substantial African-American slave population. It was expected that these slaves would be used as soldiers to fight the North on behalf of ...

I. What was going on in America during this time (1865-1877) known as "the reconstruction? (1-3 Page) (Talk about Lincolns 10% plan, Charles Sumner,Preston Brooks, Lincolns death, The Reconstruction act, Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Freedmans Bureau, Birth of the KKK, etc.) There were two Reconstructions in American history, although the first one in 1865-77 ended with restoration of home rule and white supremacy in the South, rather than equal citizenship and voting rights promised in the 14th and 15th Amendments. In fact, it ended in extreme violence, with perhaps 50,000 blacks being murdered when the Ku ...

The history of the African-Americans cannot be mentioned without the reference to the slave trade and the slavery period. This is where all started with the dark history of how these people faced challenges in terms of discrimination and social abuse. However, after the Civil War of 1865, it appeared that matters were not as bad for these people. Their hope of a better life in America stared with the Reconstruction Amendments1. Before President Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, he announced of the plans to incorporate the confederates as fast as possible. His move started with the Thirteenth Amendment which ...

Introduction

It is in the very nature of humans to have conflicts with one another. At the same time, it is not impossible to meet those conflicts with the appropriate resolutions. Whereas conflicts, small or large in scale, arise from disagreements over matters crucial to the parties involved, the escalation of such matters often lead to amicable resolutions, regardless of the length of time and representation changes within parties. War, a disastrous form of conflict, often stems from disagreements between large groups of people within a certain context and milieu, with both parties risking their interests in the given case.

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Most historians debate that the American Civil War started when the seven states declared their session from the U.S and joined to form the confederate states of America. The main reason for this secession was slavery, particularly, the Southerners were angry at the efforts of the Northerner’s antislavery political forces to block the expansion slavery into the Western regions. The southerners debated argued that such restrictions on slavery would violate the principle of states’ rights. When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, his victory triggered the declaration of secession by the seven states in the Deep South ...

History

United States Military Strategy and Policy 1. Describe Washington’s strategy in the American Revolution.

George Washington wore the British and their Hessian mercenaries down small battle by small battle with his Strategy of Attrition. There were practical reasons for using this strategy. The Continental Army had 220,000 but only about half of those soldiers had militia training while on the other hand the British had 162,000 well trained British troops and German mercenaries. The odds against the American revolutionaries were frightening because the New England soldiers were not an army yet when Washington arrived in ...

The Battle of Gettysburg has a special place in the hearts of Americans. It was a real battle in the Civil War that for many reached mythical levels. In the South reenactments of the Civil War take place with an emphasis to historical fact both in uniforms and in military tactics. The Gettysburg battle and The Gettysburg Address by President Abraham Lincoln still bring up strong emotions for Americans to this day. On November 19, 1863President Lincoln noted at the Gettysburg’s National Union ceremony that the Union was created 100 years before and was “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the ...

Milgram’s and Asch’s Experiments on Conformity and Obedience

Understanding how society impacts individual behavioral patterns is the key to understanding human psychology because it is evident that external influences shape human behavior, opinions, beliefs, and values. Social psychology experiments are designed to clarify the correlations between social influences, such as conformity and obedience, and human behavior. For example, Asch (1951) aimed to show how the majority influences individuals through conformity while Milgram (1963) analyzed how obedience influences personal behavior and moral values. However, it is evident that social psychology research should be careful when constructing the experiments because Asch’s experiment lacks a representative sample to derive a valid ...

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What is the thesis of your paper? The movie Gettysburg did have elements of the Lost Cause myth but the movie did make progress in teaching about Civil War through the movie.

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HOOK: What is interesting about this thesis? ‘Hook’ your readers with an interesting fact or angle. The Lost Cause myth has been the basis of a lot of movies, and the Union soldiers and leaders aren’t respected at all in the Lost Cause myth.

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Find a minimum of 7 sources (3 must be actual books) that relate to your thesis. (DON’T FORGET TO CONSIDER VISUAL ...

The Emancipation Proclamation meant the freedom of the slaves from bondage to their masters. It was a public declaration that made the slaves "forever free," ending slavery in the country. The proclamation happened during the American Civil War in 1861 - 1865, where the North (Union Army) went to war with the South (Confederate Army), as the eleven states of Confederacy made a withdrawal from the Union in 1860 & 1861, to reunite America, not to end slavery. During the time the Proclamation to free slaves was issued by President Lincoln, no slaves were actually freed, as he did not have control ...

Analysis

Ambrose Bierce was an American editorialist also a journalist a short story writer and a satirist. He is probably best known for his mystical story, An Occurrence at owl Creek Bridge’ which is set in the American civil War as well as his satirical lexicon ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’. He had quite a sardonic view of human matters and was also pretty vehement as a critic actually earning himself the reputation, ‘Bitter Bierce’. Bierce was born in Ohio on June 24th 1842 and quickly rose to fame after publication of his short stories and other literary pieces. He disappeared after going to Mexico ...

School

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 ...

One of the basic themes that is examined in Confederates in the Attic is the obsession and fascination that people have with the Civil War, on both sides. From the most hardcore Civil War re-enactors to the people who still speak fondly of the Confederacy, that unique campaign holds a permanent and interesting place in the hearts of many Americans. It intrigues us and carries a special spirit in the American consciousness for many reasons.

Why is this? Perhaps it’s because it’s the one conflict that pitted brother against brother, where both sides were American. Just this once, the ...