Male and female spies were essential sources of information during the Civil War. The best spies were people you would never suspect. Spies were brave‚ faceless and they knew the environment very well. Their presence was incredibly excepted. Whether they dressed as men and joined the army‚ posed as mindless slaves‚ or just kept their ears opens in collective circles‚ spies provided necessary information. It was even a woman spy who provided Union battle plans to Confederate Army‚ which allowed them
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At the start of the American Civil War‚ President Abraham Lincoln cautiously framed the conflict about the preservation of the Union rather than the ending of slavery. Personally he found the practice of slavery revolting; but he knew that neither Northerners nor the residents of the border slave states would support abolition as a reason to go to war. However by mid-1862‚ thousands of slaves fled to join the attacking Northern armies‚ Lincoln was convinced that abolition had become a sound military
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Civil War Timeline 1834 – Village of St. Joseph created‚ a busy Lake Michigan port with a long history of trade (local) 1837 – Michigan joins the Union as a free state (local) 1843 – Quaker & Abolitionist James E. Bonine arrives in Cass County (abolition) 1847 – Kentucky Slave Raid‚ Cass County (abolition) 1849 – Henry Morton builds home‚ still standing in Benton Township (local) 1850 – New‚ stricter Fugitive Slave Act passed (abolition) 1857 – Sojourner Truth settles in Michigan and speaks
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Many outside factors were believed to affect the Civil War’s outcome; everything from clothing‚ weather conditions‚ weapons‚ and food. The factor that most affected the war’s outcome was the food. The North had a great amount and variety of food. The South’s food started off the same way‚ but it quickly deteriorated. The southern soldiers began to pillage farms to find food they wanted or the soldiers would desert and go home while they would have food. These were factors that could have been prevented
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Fourth Alternative Assignment Leaving your family and loved ones home while you go fight for your country must be harder than I can ever imagine but somehow the soldiers of the United States have been doing it for centuries and made it look easy. But of course the letters that they write home to their families are heartbreaking and emotional‚ and knowing you may never see them again is a horrible feeling. On July 14th‚ 1861‚ Major Sullivan Ballou wrote a beautiful letter to his wife Sarah‚ and
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Before the “Lost Boys”‚ before the poetically gruesome depictions of survival in ‘They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky’‚ and even before South Sudan gained independence as a country in 2011‚ there were two civil wars lasting a combined 39 years which resulted in the deaths of almost 3 million people. These deaths were the outcome of starvation‚ thirst‚ fighting and the harsh wildlife of Africa. Up until 1946‚ North and South Sudan were considered to be separate. Meaning their economics‚ politics and
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his observations and visions on the Civil War and uses imagery and symbolism to display his beliefs about the war in which he portrays more than just the tangible picture of a transcendentalist’s vision. The use of imagery in "Bivouac on a Mountain Side" is one of the compelling factors that draws the reader into the poem so that he/she no longer reads what Whitman is writing‚ but rather sees what he is describing and understands Whitman’s place in the war. Different from other Whitman poems‚
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The Chinese Civil War was one of the most turbulent‚ chaotic‚ and effective series of events during the Cold War Era. It is difficult to conceive of any fashion in which the under-equipped CPC forces would be able to match and eventually overcome a powerful political regime with support vast support from the United States. However‚ even with limited aid from their Soviet allies‚ Mao was able to pull the marginalized‚ the poor‚ and the oppressed together to strengthen the communist cause. Although
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Charles and Mary Beard‚ Allan Nevins‚ and Eric Foner support Seward’s views on the idea the American Civil War was an irrepressible conflict. Following Seward’s speech in 1858‚ dominate discussion points from 1861 to 1920 and so on include the discussion of impacting economic differences‚ whether the nation would be dominated by a system of free labor or slave labor. Furthermore‚ the fact that the war was inevitable due to the lack of willingness from the North and the South to create a compromise on
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Trace the roots of the Civil War. Why did sectionalism ultimately result in violence in the United States? Was the conflict inevitable or could it have been avoided? Explain. I believe that the Civil War began with the debate over the future of slavery. That very issue led to secession‚ and secession caused a war where the Northern states fought for the ground of the Union‚ and the South for their independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. It seems to me that
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