Confederates Attic

The “Louisiana Students’ Resoluon” was wrien by a group of een students during the beginning of the Civil War. They wrote this document on campus at the University of North Carolina. They wrote it to express their loyalty to their home state of Louisiana, and to inform their governor that they were willing to come home and ght in Louisiana’s regiments. “The Philidelphians Forming Regiments” was composed on April 22, 1861 by Alfred M. Green. He was an African American abolionist, and he

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The battle of the Alamo is probably the most defining event in the history of Texas. The thirteen day siege took place from February 23 to March 6 of 1836, when Mexican troops under Santa Anna’s command launched an assault on the alamo mission near San Antonio de Bexar. Although every single defender of the alamo was killed in the siege, it inspire many Texans to join the army and defeat the Mexican army at the battle of San Jacinto in April 21, 1836. The initial defeat and the following victory

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Thomas Jefferson, a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States (Freidel). Jefferson faithfully served his country for over fifty years with rankings such as an historian, public official, philosopher, plantation owner and founding father, but he also had a distinct, distasteful title: slave owner. According to Thomas Jefferson himself, he held comments on the issue of slavery that

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When you think of the Emancipation Proclamation, what do you think of? How it was issued? Who issued it? I’ve recently thought of all of those questions and I’m here to talk all about it. First off, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued and written by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. This new law, to Abraham, was thought to succeed in abolishing slavery for good after the great Civil War. Even though all states were meant to abide by this law, not all of them did unfortunately. Missouri, Kentucky

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caused the deaths of 2,700 Union soldiers and 2,000 Confederate soldiers. This battle has two different names, because like a lot of other Civil War battles, the Union and the Confederates named it two different things. The Union named the battles after the natural recourses that are surrounding the area like bodies of water and landmarks. The Confederates got their battle names from the nearest railroad stations, towns, and cities. The Confederate army was

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In the beginning of the chapter On the Rainy River, Tim O’Brien starts by saying, “This is one story I’ve never told before. Not brother or sister, not even to my wife”(O’Brien,38) By telling us this, he has already captured the reader's attention by making us feel important because he his confiding in us something he hasn’t even told his loved ones.”On the Rainy River” is a fictional story based on Tim’s memories of the Vietnam war.In this chapter, Tim has an opportunity to swim to Canada and escape

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I need tell something that crucial for me, It decides my fate; impact on my life; gives me the courage to lives. I so excited that I even can’t describe my thoughts. It may the providence that I retrieve my liberty, God’s mercy saves my companions and I which means I will no longer be the slavery. This is lengthy war for us, we want fight for our liberty and right. We wait for that moment every time that I live in the world, now we obtain it eventually. Grateful for president Lincoln and people that

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year; it ended military action during the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. MG Ulysses S. Grant was the Union General charged with taking the town of Vicksburg from Confederate LTG John C. Pemberton. Both men had numerous weapon systems and units at their disposal. During this campaign the Union and Confederate armies lost an enormous amount of soldiers with an estimated casualty count of 19,233 men combined—Maj. Gen. Grant rightfully worried of prolonged siege operations, as he knew the

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Slavery was very important to the south, and the south was extremely dependent upon it. The south had a lot of plantations, or large farms. As the cotton industry spread the need for jobs rose tremendously. A need that the south alone could not provide. Slavery had been around for years before this but the need for it in the south became evident. As the need for slaves grew, there just weren’t enough southerners to go around. So they started bringing slaves in from Africa. As the number of slaves

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this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.” – Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln’s election, sectional differences over slavery, which resulted in seven southern slave states individually seceded from the United States to form what was known as the confederate states of America, and questions over state rights and federal power erupted into the American Civil War. The Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. Masur’s text successfully delivered a concise chronological history of the American Civil

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