...“Chickamauga,” a short story written by Ambrose Bierce, tells a story about a six-year-old boy, son of a veteran, who wandered by his lonesome, into the forest. The little boy was happy because he now had a sense of freedom from control and happiness because he has the opportunity to explore and adventure. He has dreams of himself in battle, killing enemies, just like his father once did. But somewhere along the way, he looses sight of reality. After one day of his adventure, lost in the forest, he becomes tired and begins to cry out from fear and terror; he sobs himself to sleep. When he arises from his sleep, he notices several objects nearing him but he cannot make out what it could be. As the objects get closer, he realizes that it is men nearing him, hundreds of men in fact. These men were just out of battle, beaten and wounded. The little boy decides he will become the leader of the pack. When he notices a blazing fire, he motions to his tribe to follow. As they get closer, he realizes that it is his own home that is up in flames. When he runs toward the fire, he...
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...In fact, it was suggested to do away with them all together. Massachusetts Senator Henry Wilson said “The bands are, in my opinion, far more ornamental than useful, and should be abolished. This would be saving about $5,000,000.” In 1861, this began to happen. Band members were dismissed from service in accordance to General Order 91. However, the power of music proved to be invaluable. The very next year, Congress passed Public Act 165. Dismissed bands were to be reinstated, and paid appropriately. You see, the musicians provided something that money could not buy. Something that could turn the tables of the war. Hope. During leisure time, music provided a relief from the tragedies of the war. Even though singing was said to be solely recreational...
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...Introduction The United States of America for decades has been the best example of a nation that is a melting pot of cultures. This has mainly been due to the fact that currently, the country may be the most racially and culturally diverse nation on the planet. There may be other facts disputing this assumption but the United States beats other culturally diverse nations in terms of the tolerance and harmony between the resident cultures. All this can been attested to the fact that America is an Immigration Country. The country constitutes people from different parts of the world. The process of people moving into the new world that is the Americas where the United State lies began centuries ago and has been an ongoing process to the current day. This paper examines the origins of their Native Americans. This paper also explores their journey into the Americas as the first Immigrants. Their settlement patterns and ways of life will also be examined. The paper also explores how the Native Americans in the Americas fared during the European conquest of the region that is currently identified as the America. Euro-Indian relations, conflicts and their aftermath is also a focus point of the paper, which culminates into the current state of affairs of the Native American community in the Americas. Origins of the Native Americans There are diverse sources of information on the origins and history of the Native Americans. They include oral history passed down through generations...
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...as awful as documented or simply a necessary evil of the war itself? I liken this to a high budget Hollywood blockbuster, horrible comparison but it seems to be what comes to mind. In most major motion pictures, the “winner” is placed upon a pedestal for all to cheer. The “loser” on the other hand, that’s normally the villain of the story. Certainly the Union had to have prisons set up where similar acts were being enforced, right? Is Andersonville so well regarded as the worst of the worst simply because the south have the stank of loserdom all over them? Located in Andersonville, Georgia, this Confederate Civil War prison was perhaps the most notorious. Many people know this hostile locale as simply Andersonville. All though, in fact, Camp Sumter is the proper name of this infamous facility, named after the county in which it resided. Prisoners were marched into the confines while the building itself was still under construction. Of an estimated 45,000 taken captive, 14,000 never saw...
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...mother. While at her home, Eliza convinced Garfield to not return to the canal boat and instead go to school. Garfield attended Geauga Seminary from 1848 to 1850. During his time at the academy, he became interested in language and elocution because he liked how a speaker had power over an audience. In 1851 he began attending Hiram College, known as Western Reserve Eclectic Institute at the time, and met his future wife, Lucretia Rudolph, there while teaching her Greek. In 1854, Garfield enrolled at Williams College because he needed more knowledge and graduated in 1856. At the start of the Civil War, Garfield joined the Union Army, and proved his effectiveness as a leader while serving as a lieutenant and took part in the Battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga(James Garfield - Twentieth President of the United States). While serving, friends of Garfield tried to convince him to run for a position in the House of Representatives. He accepted but left the campaign to managers and in 1862, while still in the army, he was elected to the House of Representatives but was not interested in leaving the army until Abraham Lincoln convinced him otherwise. In Congress, Garfield became frustrated with President Lincoln over his lack of reparations towards the South and so did many other republicans. They wanted bills passed that would confiscate rebel-owned lands, but Lincoln would not let that happen. Garfield believed that the rebels had forfeited their constitutional rights and believed that...
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...would return to the South repeatedly to lead escaping slaves to safety. For her actions, she was nicknamed Moses by working slaves, this referred to the book of Exodus in the Old Testament of the Bible how God sends Moses to bring the Israelites out of slavery and into the promised land. As the start of the Civil War crept up, Tubman was already helping John Brown with his plans, she would have gone along to the skirmish, but she fell ill. Tubman seemed to be known by everyone and at the heart of the Union. She served as a spy, nurse, army scout, and leader. Tubman helped organize that “contraband” Union soldiers, or men who escaped slavery to fight for the Union. She is also attributed as being the first and last women to lead troops into battle. Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 135 elaborates, “Tubman organized a scouting service of black men and began leading expeditions into enemy territory seeking strategic information. But perhaps her most dramatic service to the Union army was her leadership of the...
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...The Union rejected secession, regarding it as rebellion. Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a large volunteer army, then four more Southern states declared their secession. In the war's first year, the Union assumed control of the border states and established a naval blockade as both sides massed armies and resources. In 1862, battles such as Shiloh and Antietam caused massive casualties unprecedented in U.S. military history. In September 1862, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made ending slavery in the South a war goal, which complicated the Confederacy's manpower shortages. In the East, Confederate commander Robert E. Lee won a series of victories over Union armies, but Lee's reverse at Gettysburg in early July, 1863 proved the turning point. The capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson by Ulysses S. Grant completed Union control of the Mississippi River. Grant fought bloody battles of attrition with Lee in 1864, forcing Lee to defend the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. Union general William Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia, and began his famous March to the Sea, devastating a...
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