factors suggested that Union Victory was inevitable.55 First off, the manpower on the Union side was much larger and outnumbered the Confederate army strength. There were 20 Northern states fighting against 11 Southern states. When the war broke out, the Confederate Army had an estimated 750,000 soldiers, whereas the Union Army had about 2 milliion soldiers. The Confederate soldiers had many odds against them. A Yankee stood a 1 in 18 chance of dying due to illness and a 1 in 8 chance of dying in battle
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The Civil War is a dark mark on America's History, that helped define who we are today. Brothers fighting brothers, fathers fighting sons, and families devastated over a fear of change and compromise. Change, compromise, and leadership are all needed for a nation to succeed, but is bloodshed necessary to achieve success. Our land is stained with fathers and sons who believed that bloodshed was necessary to achieve greatness. The Civil War is a blemish on the history of the United States of America
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Avery Taylor Mr. Kotris English III 7 Dec 2011 How the Civil War Affected the United States Economy “The American Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 and it was one of the most devastating wars in history.”(Kelly) Should the Union have helped the South become more industrialized like the northeastern part, or should it have just left the South like it was, an agrarian-based economy that relied heavily on slave-worked plantations for the production of cotton for export to Europe
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The history of slavery in America dates back to the seventeenth century when slaves were brought to Virginia in 1619. The era of slavery in US can be broadly divided into three sections, The Antebellum, Slavery during the Civil War, The Reconstruction We will be focusing our attention on the lives of slaves during the Civil War - a war many believe was fought for their emancipation. But before we get an insight into this subject, it is important to know in brief the events that led to the Civil
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Mark R. Swieszcz Angeline E. Hutton FI 360 Financial Management 6 March 2012 “The Ascent of Money” Confederate Money Backed by Cotton, What went wrong? In 1861 the American Civil War had begun. The North held most of the industrialized states and the South almost all the agrarian ones. More importantly the North had under its control all of the original gold supply which backed its form of currency at that time. So what did the South have? They had cotton. The South controlled almost
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Two weeks prior, they were issued breech-loading carbines, and they used the guns’ fast-loading capability to create the impression of a much larger force and were able to slow the advance of Hill’s brigades for a time before they fell back. The Confederates followed them across the stream, only to meet a line of Union infantry on McPherson’s Ridge. The Army of the Potomac was slowly arriving unit by unit, and among the first to arrive was Union Maj Gen Reynolds, commander of the left wing of the Army
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the Army of Virginia, and this first volume chronicles the early years under the command of General McClellan. * The First Corps was originally the Confederate Army of the Potomac, under the command of Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. It fought under this name at the First Battle of Manassas, then merged with Joseph E. Johnston's Confederate Army of the Shenandoah and the entire force was called the Army of the Potomac. This army was composed of two wings, or commands; the first commanded by Beauregard
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South’s Defenders Confederate Monument located on the Courthouse lawn in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The bronze statue, which is 6 foot tall and weighs 200 pounds, was made by the W.H. Mullins Co., Salem, Ohio, John Segesman, chief sculptor (Jones, 2010). The first Confederate descendants’ organization in Lake Charles was Robert E. Lee Chapter 305, United Daughters of the Confederacy, which was founded in 1899. It raised the funds for the monument. The South's Defender's Confederate Monument was dedicated
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Civil War - Pink |What was the economy of the Southern states based on? |1. Agriculture and it relied on slave labor | |What was the economy of the Northern states based on? |2. Industry | |What is agriculture? |3. Growing of crops and livestock | |What is industry? |4. The commercial
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three primary missions (procedures). First, a naval blockade of the Southern seaports, second to gain complete control of the Mississippi river, and third, the capture and surrender of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.1 By blockading the Confederate ports, President Lincoln and General Scott hoped to deprive the rebel government of their main income supply, the export of cotton and other mainly southern type agriculture products to Europe, mainly Great Britain. The
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