The Battle of Fort Sumter is the first battle of the Civil War. Fort Sumter is located in an artificial island in the harbor of Charleston‚ South Carolina‚ built in the wake of the War of 1812 . After South Carolina’s secession from the Union on December 20‚ 1860‚ Maj. Robert Anderson and his force of 85 soldiers were positioned at Fort Moultrie near the mouth of Charleston Harbor. On December 26‚ fearing for their safety‚ Anderson moved his command to Fort Sumter. All the forts along the coast except
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The Academy Award-winning director‚ John Ford‚ is considered one of the best filmmakers of all time. Ford achieved in fifty years of filmmaking a unique capacity in American culture in which he put throughout his films. The author Andrew Sinclair stated “he was a practical man who saw his job as showing the mass of the American people the truth of what he recreated about their past” (Sinclair 41). As a man‚ he concealed his true personality from the public‚ who built this whole legend of toughness
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Have you ever wondered about Abraham Lincoln early life. I have‚ and I thought today I would tell you about that. This man was born in February 12‚ 1809. He lived in a log cabin in Hardin County‚ Kentucky. Abraham’s father‚ Thomas Lincoln‚ was a migratory carpenter and farmer. Thomas was almost always very very poor. His mother Nancy Hanks died in 1818. A few years after Nancy’s death Thomas Lincoln married a widow‚ named Sarah Bush Johansen. She was a very caring‚ loving and affectionate mother
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President Abraham Lincoln delivers a speech at the dedication of the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania on November 19‚ 1863. Pennsylvania was the site where the brutal battles of the Civil War were taken place. He was dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equally and soldiers that died for that cause should obviously continue to fight. The sacrifices that were made during the Civil War were the beginning of a new freedom to the land‚ preservation of the Union‚ which
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I feel that Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” is the most compelling of all the speeches that I read . Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” was the most compelling speech because of the way he wrote the speech with a sad‚ somber tone and also hinted towards equality and freedom for all men. In the very beginning of the “Gettysburg Address” written by the 16th president of the United States -- Abraham Lincoln‚ reminds the public what the United States of America was founded upon; the
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On November 19‚ 1863 the 16th President Abraham Lincoln recited a speech long to be remembered in the great nation of America. Lincoln makes major statements throughout the duration of the speech; He also shifts from the focus of honoring the soldiers with this ground to telling the people that “we” as the people need to honor this nation by committing to its survival. In this speech Lincoln states at the end of the second paragraph “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field‚ as a final resting
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Do you really know Abraham Lincoln’s reasons for fighting in the civil war? Well to begin with‚ Lincoln argued that the reason for fighting was to preserve the Union‚ but towards the end of the war‚ his reasons has changed to what the cause of the war really was‚ which was to end slavery. Originally‚ Abraham Lincoln’s reason for fighting in the civil war was to preserve the Union‚ as he said in his First Inaugural Address‚ “You have no oath to destroy the government‚ while I shall have the most
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Sabrina Simer 9/27/06 Reaction Paper After reading both speeches I found that the purpose of Pericles’s speech was to honor the ancestors‚ the survivors‚ the ones who died for the country‚ and their families. It was also to speak of the goodness of Athens and reiterate how rewarding having a democracy is. The purpose of Lincoln’s speech was very similar. It was to dedicate a monument as the final resting place for those who have died in the civil war; it was also to reinforce the fact that
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His supporters back in Tennessee were very much in favor of secession from the Union. This act alone drew a line between Johnson and his deep rooted common man supporters. Lifelong supporters turned against him. On the opposite side‚ Johnson was hailed as a hero and President Abraham Lincoln asked him to meet with him to hear his views. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the US. He was from Illinois and a member of the anti-slavery Republican Party. In December that same year
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The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War‚ Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain positively impacted the battle. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a hero at Gettysburg because of his great leadership‚ the trust of his men and holding the Union flank. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born in Brewer‚ Maine on September 8‚ 1828. Chamberlain was the oldest sibling out of five‚ Thomas Chamberlain‚ Horace Beriah Chamberlain‚ John Chamberlain‚ Sarah Barstow Chamberlain. His parents were Joshua and
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