Historian Shelby Foote said‚ “Any understanding of this nation has to be based on an understanding of the Civil War”. The Civil War defined us as what we are‚ and it opened us to being what we became‚ good and bad things. It is very necessary if you’re going to understand the American character in the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the mid-19th century (Adams‚ 2013). It was the crossroads of our being”. Moreover‚ he stated that “basing any understanding of this nation is
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Shelby Foote was an American historian and novelist who Random House Publishing Company paid to write a history of the civil war. It took him 20 years to write the 3-volume novel “The Civil War: A Narrative.” Writing 500 to 600 hundred words a day and visiting battlefields as needed to make the Novel as factual as possible with all known reliable historical writings. Treating the North and South the same writing he wrote about both the east and west battles. Using the historian’s standard of evidence
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Shelby Foote Shelby Foote was a renowned historian known for his work and knowledge of the Civil War. He wrote The Civil War: A Narrative that contained three volumes and 2‚934 pages. In 1990‚ Shelby Foote stated the following: Any understanding of this nation has to be based and I mean really based‚ on an understanding of the Civil War. I believed that firmly. It defined us. The Revolution did what it did. Our involvement with the European wars‚ beginning with the First World War‚ did what it
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In 1958‚ a historical narrator by the name of Shelby Foote of Greenville‚ Mississippi published his first volume of a trilogy series of the history of the American Civil War. Some one thousand pages later‚ Foote shows his brilliance and quality of vision through the history of a nation in pure shambles‚ and on the break of certain destruction‚ and elimination from the face of the earth. Written in Memphis‚ Tennessee‚ Foote a native southerner like any other published author faced criticism and critique
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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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Civil War Paper Darrell Jones HIS/110 August 22‚ 2012 Adolph Woodard Civil War Paper The Civil War was fought between Americans from the North and the South. Many factors led to the eventual conflict‚ but none was more important than the issue of slavery. While Northerners felt slavery was essentially against what America stood for‚ Southerners depended on slavery to maintain their economy. The conflict resulted in the South wanting to secede from the Union and exist as a collection of Confederate
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American Civil War Milan Patel The journal paper discusses the problems faced by Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis that contributed to civil war in their respective states. It analyses the contribution of each person in the American civil war. The achievements of both commanders will also be discussed together with their weaknesses. Introduction A civil war involves the conflict between different groups in the same state. The main objectives of the civil war are the intention of one group to exercise
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7/14/13 English Civil War - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia English Civil War From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political problems between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers). The first (1642–46) and second (1648–49) civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament‚ while the third war (1649–51) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II
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The Civil War had many causes‚ some of them were long term causes and some of them were immediate causes. The long term causes were the problems that seemed to never be solved between the North and South. Slavery for instance was a long term problem because it was never completely solved; however continuous compromises were made between both sides‚ but the disagreements would not disappear. On the other hand‚ the immediate causes were the problems in which guaranteed that the North and South would
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Draft: Civil War The Civil War was unavoidable through political and territorial disputes. The main issue of the Civil War was slavery. The Civil War was fought between two sides over a conflict‚ dealing with abolishing slavery. The Civil War left six hundred twenty five thousand casualties. Both sides wanted to absorb one another to form their idea of the correct United States. The Civil War could
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