...Bruce Catton's, “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts” begins by painting a scene of the end of the American civil war at Appotomax. The author describes two American Generals, their contrasting beliefs and what was common between them. Robert E. Lee, was an aristocrat from Virginia. He embodied the ideals of the privileged upperclassmen, who had no desire for change. He believed that there should be inequality within America's social structure. The author mentions “In the end, it almost seemed as of the Confederacy fought for Lee; as if he himself was the Confederacy.” Lee, fought for the aristocratic concept to rule the country. Ulysses S. Grant, was a commoner from the rugged Western frontier. He was a man who came up in life the hard way....
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...The Lee statue was approved by city council to be removed and several parks were to be renamed because they were named after confederate generals. Jason Kessler, who organized the rally at noon stated that “The statue itself is symbolic of a lot larger issue.” He claims that his protest was standing up for the preservation of American history and the interest of white people. Kessler believes that all groups should be allowed to stand up for their interest without being shut down by the government. As the day advanced, the battle became more intense and dangerous with a man eventually driving his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-racist protestors injuring nineteen people and killing one. Heather D. Heyer was one of the 3 individuals killed during...
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...English 394 Seeing the World Differently: An Analysis of “When the Light Gets Green” Robert Penn Warren’s short story “When the Light Gets Green” is full of interesting images and themes. We led by a young boy who is looking back at an important period in his life. It is time that a child loses his innocence. The critic Paul West put it best when he said that “Most of Warren’s best stories are painful, guilt-ridden commemorations of some young person’s rites of passage.” This story is no different. We see a kid return to the farm he loves, only to be met with questions. His grandfather, Mr. Barden, is not the same as he remembered. The grandson has trouble understanding his grandfather’s sudden flaws, and by reexamining his grandfather, is not capable of loving him anymore. At the beginning of the story we follow the grandson’s memory of what his grandfather looked like. The first line says “My grandfather had a long white beard and sat under the cedar tree.” This was how he imagined his grandfather while he was at school, but when he returned he was shocked to see that the beard was actually “gray and pointed.” This opening paragraph sets the tone for the entire story. The grandson had a majestic image of his grandfather in his mind, but the passage of time sheds light on imperfections that were previously unimportant. Paul Runyon says that “’When the Light Gets Green’ is a strongly autobiographical reminiscence of his grandfather Penn.” Runyon point helps...
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...--------------------------------------- This essay was downloaded from CheatHouse.com (c) Loadstone 1995-2003. More essays, papers, reports, study notes and more can always be found at: - http://www.CheatHouse.com - --------------------------------------- Within the last century, the scale of war has made necessary a different type of leader. We no longer fight for our farms, villages, and hunting lands. Our interests have shifted from straits and mountain passes. In our current world, as a result of technological revolutions and ever growing political instability, we live in the threat of a global war. Actions have the potential to resonate in many continents subsequently influencing the economies, policies, and war strategies of nations worldwide. For these reasons, leaders must study the past and integrate history's lessons learned with the new challenges of leading within a heightened threat. Military leaders must maintain their grasp and focus on the technical mastery of warfighting, personal courage, and the ability to inspire men to fight for a common cause. Victory will lend itself to the commander who can master the terrain and find new or creative ways to employ his weapons and men. Leaders must be technically proficient with the arms they use to wage war. In a broad example, the Spartans studied the natural tendency of phalanx formations to shift right and employed special tactics to break off part of their formation and bring it upon the flank...
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...The play Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee chronicles the trial of Bertram Cates—a school teacher in Tennessee who breaks the law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution instead of creationism. Matthew Harrison Brady, the prosecuting attorney on the case, exhibits prominent characteristics which directly affects the way he conducts the trial. Brady displays various examples throughout the play of how his arrogance, insecurity, and intolerance influences the way he acts. To begin with, Matthew Harrison Brady’s arrogance is an aspect that altered his conduction of the trial. An example is when Brady learns Henry Drummond will be the defence attorney on the case. Regarding this piece of information, Brady says, “If...
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...and candidate for vice president in 1860. Lincoln received a late invitation to make "a few appropriate remarks." Lincoln's brief Gettysburg address became a cornerstone of American expression of the nation's ideals, mission, and patriotism. On the first three days of July 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee, had fought the Army of the Potomac, the principal northern army, to which General George G. Meade had been assigned command only four days earlier. In early May, Lee had won a smashing victory at Chancellorsville, Virginia, over a Union force approximately twice as large, and then had boldly determined to carry the war to the enemy by invading Pennsylvania. Drawn into an offensive battle at Gettysburg, Lee attacked both wings of the Union army before launching an attack on the center in the third day of fighting. That assault, led by Major General George E. Pickett, had approached success before Union forces rallied. The three-day battle cost the North 17,684 men killed and wounded; the South lost 22,638. The failure of Pickett's charge, sometimes labeled the high-water mark of the Confederacy, compelled Lee to withdraw from Pennsylvania....
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...Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Actors Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, and Martin Sheen do an excellent job playing the roles of Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, and Joshua Chamberlain. While the film did poorly in the box office, the film has been praised for its accuracy. The film is so committed to telling the story right that it takes 4 hours to tell it. While we are supposed to only use one paragraph for the summary, I am afraid I need more than one to talk about Gettysburg. The movie starts off with the location of the battle and explains how the armies converged at Gettysburg. After following a constant winning streak, Confederate general Robert E. Lee decides to invade the north and crush the Army of the Potomac and force the north to surrender. Brig. General John Buford and his cavalry unit arrive at Gettysburg believing that if Lee secures the town it would give them an easy defensive position that could wipe out the Potomac. Buford then deploys his forces along Seminary ridge in order to defend the west from confederates and send word to Major General John Reynolds. The second day finds confederate general Henry Heth clashing with Buford's men after trying to enter Gettysburg looking to restock their dwindling Shoe supplies. Heth originally thinks that Buford's men are just militia and attacks without informing Lee. Pretty soon more Union and Confederate troops arrive to reinforce both side but eventually the Union gets outflanked and manned and is forced...
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...on September 17th 1862, where more people were killed in one day compared to 9/11 where about 5,000 deaths were accounted for. The Battle Of Antietam is the one known battle to be by far the bloodiest day in the whole civil war along with the bloodiest day in American History. This battle didn’t just come to be, it started off with off with one of General McClellan Union soldiers walking on a field and finding a wad of cigars on the ground. George McClellan the commander for Union Army of the Potomac troops and responsible for anything that happens in Washington D.C. Especially with Robert E. Lee’s future plans to invade the North. Little did he know the soldier discovered a battle plan in that wad of cigars which made his way to McClellan, but it wasn’t long before Lee found out his plan already known about by the Unions. The map showed the exact plans that Confederate leader General Robert E. Lee had planned to attack the North with. Overall after Antietam there was no clear “winner.” Although people tend to be more opinionated toward the Union side winning only because they stopped the invasion of the North. The winner of the Battle Of Antietam is unclear and depends on how you look at the out come after the...
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...The envelopment is a maneuver in which a secondary attack attempts to hold the enemy's center while one single envelopment or both flank; double envelopment is where the enemy is attacked or overlapped in a push to the enemy's rear in order to threaten the enemy's communications and line of retreat. This forces the enemy to fight in several directions and possibly be destroyed in position. New variations include vertical envelopments or Airborne Troops or airmobile troops and amphibious envelopments (Goodman,1993). Noted single envelopments were accomplished by Alexander the Great at Arbela in 331 BC, Robert E. Lee at Chancellorsville in 1863, and Erwin Romme at Gazala in 1942, leading to the capture of Tobruk; famous double envelopments include those of Hannibal at the Battle of...
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...The Battle of Polygon Wood was a joint military operation during the First World War between seven divisions of the British and Australian allied forces, collectively. The battle was part of a greater military operation during the third Battle of Ypres (later known as the Battle of Passchendaele). The battle was lead by the 4th and 5th divisions of the Australian army and its objective was to advance over one-thousand metres to seize a major portion of the German defensive line and to secure the remainder of Polygon Wood. The attack resulted in roughly thirteen-thousand German casualties and caused the injury and death of over 20,000 British and Australian soldiers combined. The following will discuss the objectives, events and significance of the Battle of Polygon Wood, and the extent to which the military campaign was a success. The Battle of Polygon Wood was a highly significant and major military campaign for the Australian 4th and 5th divisions. It was the first major campaign for the 5th division in Belgium, and the reasonably inexperienced Australian divisions were charged with the responsibility of leading the deadly campaign. According to Captain A.D. Ellis (P. 229 - 246, 1920), Polygon Wood had been the site of a former artillery school, as well as an associated riding school. Ellis stated that there was an oval racecourse about 450 metres in length lying in the middle of the wood. Positioned a few metres from the north-eastern border of the oval track was a tall...
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...must work on in order to perfect it. Topic Choices (broken into 3 subunits) • Middle Passage • Indentured Servants • Jobs of Slaves • Resistance to Slavery • Slave Rebellions • Political Compromises • Abolition Movement • Life on Plantations • Free Blacks • Runaways • John Brown • Underground Railroad • Black Codes • Josiah Henson • Harriet Tubman • Frederick Douglas • Harriet Jacobs • Henry “Box” Brown • Olaudah Equiano • Economic Causes • Election of 1860 • Abraham Lincoln • Confederate States of America • Jefferson Davis • Robert E. Lee • Ulysses S. Grant • General Sherman • Stonewall Jackson • Jeb Stuart • George Meade • Any military leader • Legality of secession • Liberian Colony • Battle Campaigns • Prisons • Types of weaponry • Life as Johnny Reb • Life as Billy Yank •...
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...Robert E. Lee Robert Edward Lee “One of the greatest soldiers, if not the greatest, who ever spoke the English language” was born into a distinguished aristocracy on January 19, 1807 in Stratford Hall, Virginia. Though he was arguably the most cerebral military mind in our nation’s history, the military field was not Robert E. Lee’s career of choice. Despite that fact, Lee is now highly regarded as a skilled tactician and arguably the second-most influential man in the Civil War. With the Civil War approaching, on April 18, 1861, Secretary of State Francis Blair offered Lee control of all United States troops. Though any other man would have accepted immediately, Lee was in a tougher situation: he had to choose between the country he had served for thirty-two years or his home and family in the South. After pondering his decision, Lee decided to resign from the United States Army, stating that he could not raise his hand against those he loved. Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia on June 1, 1862. This was the main army of the Confederacy. It was not until three years later that he officially assumed command of all Confederate troops. However, this was a mere formality as he had been the main leader throughout the course of the war. In his first major battle of the Civil War, Lee’s army demolished the troops of John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas). However, at Antietam, Lee lost one-third of his troops to George McClellan...
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...Battle of Fredericksburg 1. Battle of Fredericksburg a. Who i. The Battle of Fredericksburg took place during a time were a new nation, America, was trying to find its identity after succeeding from Britain. Because of different viewpoints of the citizens in this new country, states started to succeed to sustain their way of living. The southern states in this new nations earned its living from agriculture, which heavily relied on slaves to tend the fields. The northern states were industrial for the most part during this time period and earned its keep by trade. President Lincoln had a different point of view of how the new nation should operate. He believed the nation would only be as strong as its weakest link, and wanted to stop the states from succeeding. This essentially caused the civil war, which was fought between the Union and the Confederacy. b. When ii. There were a number of battles that occurred on the eastern side of the United States that led to the Battle of Fredericksburg such as: the Battle of Hampton Roads, the Battle of Winchester, The Seven Days Battle, the Second Battle of the Bull Run and etc. All of these prior conflicts led to the Battle of Fredericksburg that began on December 11, 1862 and ended December 15, 1862. c. Where iii. The Battle of Fredericksburg started in the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia. This battle is considered the first urban assaults led by the Union army of this era; the...
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...It would be Lee’s forces that would draw out the siege of Richmond later in the war. President Lincoln said the following to General Halleck in regards to Meade finishing Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia, “Now, if Gen. Meade can complete his work so gloriously prosecuted thus far, by the literal or substantial destruction of Lee's army, the rebellion will be over” . Although Meade would adhere to the wishes of the President, he did not do so in an aggressive enough manner that would allow him to catch and destroy Lee’s army before it crossed the Potomac River. Meade ended his pursuit after the Battle at Manassas Gap and took up a position across the Rappahannock River from Lee and his forces who had reached the safety of Confederate controlled territory . Although viewed as a turning point in the Civil War, it did not bring the war to an abrupt end as many had hoped. The failure of Meade to destroy Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia, although crippled, still allowed the Confederacy to have a defensive element in the Eastern Theater, even if they lacked an...
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...He died heroically in battle, as any warrior should. The confederate cavalry was severely weakened by the spring of 1864. On May 9, Sheridan and 12,000 sabres headed towards Richmond. Stuart mustered approximately 4,500 men together and intercepted Sheridan at Yellow Tavern. In the cruel clash, the immortal Stuart was dangerously wounded by a dismounted Federal cavalryman. The cause of death was mortification of the stomach. He spent his last hours at Dr. Brewer's residence in Richmond. The president of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis came to visit Stuart, his favorite chieftain. Before he had left the earth, he left remembrances to his loved ones. For Robert E. Lee, Stuart gave him golden spurs. His staff officers were given his horses. And to his son, he bestowed upon him his sword. General Stuart passed away on May 12, 1864 at the age of 35 (The Late Gen. J.E.B. Stuart...
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