The American Civil War (1861-1865) was the War Between the States, which resulted in the emancipation of African-American slaves. Ninety-five percent of African-Americans lived in the South (3,500,000), out of a total southern population, {Confederate States of America (CSA)} of 9,100,000. The population of the North (Union) was approximately 22,100,000, with a slave population of approximately 400,000. (1860 US census and Carter, Susan B., ed. The Historical Statistics of the United States:
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devoted father and husband. I. DAVIS: SENATOR, CONGRESSMAN, & CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT Davis was elected US senator from the state of Mississippi serving ten years between 1835 and 1845 and served as a U.S. Congressman from 1846 to 1846 and again from 1857 to 1861. In 1861 when Mississippi seceded from the Union, David withdrew from the U.S. Senate. Davis was appointed the provisional president by the provisional Congress of the Confederate States on February 18, 1861. Davis held the title of the President
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Robert E. Lee and his right hand man James Longstreet for the Confederate and other important military figures. The Civil War spanned over many years, however Shaara chose to focus on The Battle of Gettysburg. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought from July 1st to July 3rd. The battle was the turning point of the Civil War. There were many battles fought before and after Gettysburg but this battle was the one that confirmed the Confederate would be defeated and fail to win their independence. Michael
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of Spanish heritage make up a large portion of Florida’s population. Thus this reveals that Florida’s unique ethnic diversity is indeed dissimilar to the highly white and black dominated Southern states. In later historical events, Florida as a Confederate state failed to live up the Southern pride during the Civil War.
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March 22, XXXX Title of paper. Writer’s name. Title of course, instructor’s name, and date. Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004). 67 Bishop 2 Although Northern newspapers of the time no doubt exaggerated some of the Confederate atrocities at Fort Pillow, most modern sources agree that a massacre of Union troops took place there on April 12, 1864. It seems clear that Union soldiers, particularly black soldiers, were killed after they had stopped fighting or had surrendered
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In 1861, as the nation divided, so did Tennessee. In the state's three grand divisions, Confederates and Unionists fought their own political war to determine which way Tennessee would go as the Confederate States of America took form in neighboring Alabama. West Tennesseans, led by Governor Isham G. Harris, overwhelmingly wished connection with the Confederacy, while in East Tennessee most residents remained fervidly loyal to the Union. In the state's middle section, the counties in the Central
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On April 12, 1864, some 3,000 rebels under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest overran Fort Pillow, a former Confederate stronghold situated on a bluff on the Tennessee bank of the Mississippi, some 40 miles north of Memphis. The garrison consisted of about 600 Union soldiers, roughly evenly divided between runaway slaves-turned-artillerists from nearby Tennessee communities and white Southern Unionist cavalry mostly from East Tennessee. Under a flag of truce which his men violated by creeping
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parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came." When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the national flag after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort. His goal was now to reunite the nation. He suspended habeas corpus, arresting and temporarily detaining thousands of suspected
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The Civil War was fought between the Northern and Southern parts of the United States of America, since there were many disputes between the two regions. The South called themselves the Confederates, while the North called themselves the Union army.2 The battle of Gettysburg was one of the most horrific battles of the Civil War. Over fifty thousand soldiers were found dead, wounded, or went missing in a period of three days, July 1-3 of 1863. That is the most number of casualties that has occurred
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novel “The Dogs of War,” Emory M. Thomas presents a valid argument that once the dogs of war are allowed to run free they turn into erratic and intolerable animals. His outlook describes how certain misunderstandings dominated the way the Union and Confederate states observed one another. Mr. Thomas’s reflection of the war explained how the war was created and gives details about the events that extended the nation’s first bloodbath. The analogy dogs of war were used to compare both sides failure to consider
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