surrendered. The Union had an estimated 4,800 casualties during this bloody fight. This war lasted for a good while. It went from May 18, 1863, to July 4, 1863. The generals of this battle were John C. Pemberton for the Confederate and Ulysses S. Grant for the Union. These people were highly qualified and good at what they did. This battle was one of the most important for the Union. They needed this for their plan to move forward. During the Battle of Vicksburg, also called the Siege of
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To me, an outsider is a person that is different than the majority. People can become outsiders voluntarily or involuntarily. You can be in a different place, of a different ethnic background or just hanging out with people who you don’t share anything in common with. Sometimes being an outsider can be really important and life changing like Ponyboy, or it can be so minor such as being in a class with all girls. Being an outsider can be a positive or negative experience. Say, for Ponyboy, he gets
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Can two people be similar? They grew up so different? Is this even possible? However in S.E Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, there are two characters. Johnny Cade and Dally Winston are similar because they both have neglectful parents and they both care about each other. Despite their similarities they also have differences, Johnny and Dally have different ways how they died and how Dally tries to break laws and Johnny stays away from breaking laws. Therefore, Dally Winston and Johnny Cade although
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S.E. Hinton wrote an amazing book called The Outsiders. The Outsiders is a book about Greasers the are the teens who have hardly anything and have long hair with tons of hair grease, and the Socs (Socials) who are the West side of the city rich kids. The Greasers and Socs are constantly at war with each other. A member of the Greasers is Darrel (Darry) Curtis. When the Curtis parents died Darry starts to take care of his two siblings Sodapop (Soda) Curtis who is 16 and Ponyboy (Pony) Curtis who
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Gangs have always been and will always be a part of society causing many of the members to deal with conflicts in their life. In the novel “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton there are two juvenile rival gangs. One of the gangs are called the Greasers. They Greasers are the east side “hoods” who live in the bad part of town containing not many members and are usually dressed in blue jeans and tshirts , greasing their long hair back. Unlike the Greasers the Socs have a average amount of members and live
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Samuel S. Cox The man who didn’t know that he had housed a killer. Samuel Cox had taken a role in something that made a change in U.S. history. How did Samuel Cox help? Most importantly, how did Samuel Cox impact the assassination plot of Abraham Lincoln? Samuel S. Cox was born on September 30th 1824, in Zanesville, Ohio. He attended Ohio University and Brown University in Rhode Island. Before he got into politics his first high school job was a newspaper editor. He was interested in law and politics
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one wanted to end slavery, the other wanted to keep it. Booth being a famous actor was known in the country and was one of Lincoln’s favorite actors. Lincoln may have liked Booth but Booth didn’t like Lincoln. As the war was ending General Ulysses S. Grant, general of the Union Army was wiping out General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army. This was worrying southerners and other
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Wars cannot be won without sacrifices. A war without casualties can, in fact, hardly be classified as a war. Although there is no need for mindless bloodshed, if one hundred soldiers are killed destroying the enemy sides’ supply lines, the gain outweighs the loss. War is a strategic chess game, where sometimes a pawn must be sacrificed to make way for the queen to take out the king and win the game. For instance, in the American Civil War, the Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day in American
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The battle of Chancellorsville was the fourth bloodiest battle during the Civil War and was one of the most unique and interesting battles. On one side, there was the Union general who developed and initiated the “perfect plan.” On the other side, there was a Confederate general who countered that perfect plan utilizing, at that time and still to this day, unthinkable maneuvers to achieve the “perfect victory.” This battle epitomizes the strong versus weak or the rich versus the poor in the following
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President Abraham Lincoln: the supposed “Great Emancipator” who freed the slaves and won the civil war. That is how the story is told, but what is unknown is that slavery was never President Lincoln’s true priority. Just like any other President or Politician, during wartime (and the events leading up to war) his sole focus was keeping his country together. Slavery came second to this. While having this ideal, keeping the country unified, is not a bad priority, it definitely calls for a reevaluation
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