American Civil War Experiences of the American Civil War (1861-1865): Honor, Duty and Death Introduction The following pages are an essay on the cause of the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the effects that the war had upon the soldiers, women and African Americans of the North and the South. In this essay I will write about the following topics and present a view of how the war was witnessed by these different groups of people. In regards to the soldiers of the North and the South, I
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Kylie Malone APUSH Chapter 20 ids 12/10/12 Trent Affair- the 1861 incident with Great Britain in which two Confederate diplomats were seized from a British ship. Alabama- a new major crisis in Anglo-American relations arose in 1862 over the unneutral building in England of this Confederate warship. William H. Seward- Lincoln began his precarious term as president by appointing this man as secretary of state. Jefferson Davis- the Civil War leader who was constantly challenged by states' rights
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Col Chamberlain is one of the many great leaders that the Civil War produced. There were many leaders in the Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army that made bigger impacts on the war than Col Chamberlain made. But none, that has made a bigger impact on me than Col Chamberlain. Col Chamberlain was an American college professor from the State of Maine. He volunteered in the Union Army and by the time he got out had reached the rank of brigadier general. He was awarded the Medal of Honor
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General McDowell conceived a fairly elaborate plan to attack the Confederate army commanded by his former West Point classmate, General P.G.T. Beauregard. For his part, Beauregard also had a complex plan. In the end, the plans of both generals fell apart, and actions by individual commanders and small units of soldiers determined the outcome. In the early phase of the battle the Union Army seemed to be beating the disorganized Confederates, but the rebel army managed to rally. General Thomas J. Jackson’s
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of Abraham Lincoln as the President of the United States, who was a Republican and perceived to be against slavery. “Long simmering sectional tensions reached a critical stage in 1860–1861 when eleven slaveholding states seceded and formed the Confederate
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that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the Deep South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America. The American writer Richard Gibney later used this as a theme in his novel “The Whipping Boy”, where he gives us a portrait of the differences between what the written law said and what actually happened. In the short story
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“The level of slave exports grew from about 36,000 a year during the early 18th century to almost 80,000 a year during the 1780’s” (ushistory.org). This increase in slave trade at this point in time was insanely high. The North, obviously, believed in having slaves and purchasing them. “Studies show that approximately 25% of all white men at this time owned a slave” (ushistory.org). The North wanted slaves because they needed a cheap form of labor. They tried paying them at first, but they were
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When people think of the Civil War many think to the outcome of the war and what resulted in the victory of the North, freeing the slave population and unifying the country as it had once been. We tend to look at the aftermath; however, many do not take a chance to look to how the Civil War started or the significant events and figures during the Civil War. Many people have heard of Fort Sumter, but do they really know the significance of Fort Sumter? This fort holds a true significance in what we
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Lincoln, with his top advisers did not want to risk a war with Britain over the issue. Thereafter, several tense weeks later, the crisis was soon resolved by Abraham Lincoln administrating the released of the two confederates' envoys to have the right to go to Britain, soon the Confederate commissioners were released shortly after, he also denied Captain Wilkes's actions without a formal apology. Mason and Slidell later resumed their voyage to Britain, but had failed
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Joseph E. Johnston was born on February 3, 1807 in Farmville, Virginia. His father served in the American Revolutionary War in command of the Light-Horse Henry Lee who was the father of well-known Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Johnston was a good student at the United States Military Academy (West Point), excelling academically and staying out of trouble. He later graduated in the year 1829. Robert E. Lee was among the graduates who ranked 2nd of a total of 46 cadets while Johnston was ranked
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