Gettysburg, the movie, started with the North heading to attack the South. Mr. Harrison saw the North coming and went to tell Longstreet. Longstreet at first did not believe him, but eventually he did. He went to talk to Lee, who told him to go ahead and meet them in Gettysburg. Back wit...

Before the Battle of Gettysburg even started Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee concentrated his full strength to meet the pursuing federals under Major General George G. Meade at the crossroads of Gettysburg. He did this be cause of what he had heard from a reliable source that the Union forces w...

The First Bull Run was the first major battle of the war and would occur in northern Virginia right next to the capital. Northern spectators came to watch the battle because they were sure the union would win but the confederates won much to their dismay. Because of this battle both sides realiz...

Colonel Joshua Chamberlain "The Killer Angels" The Civil War battle of Gettysburg has been called the "High Tide of the Confederacy." Mr. Shaara places the reader in the shoes of the major characters of the battle, those whose actions influenced the outcome the most. This ...

In the first three days of July 1863, one of the most decisive battles of the Civil War occurred. It is one of the most well known American battles. Gettysburg challenged the stragedic minds of many great Generals. It pushed soldiers' physaical being to the absolute max and some say it was one ...

Johnston's plan was to defeat Grant before Buell could arrive with reinforcements. He moved to attack on Apr. 3, but because of delay in the advance to the Union front, it was not until early on Apr. 6 that his troops fell upon the enemy near Shiloh Church. Grant's position was unfortified, in spit...

Johnston's plan was to defeat Grant before Buell could arrive with reinforcements. He moved to attack on Apr. 3, but because of delay in the advance to the Union front, it was not until early on on Apr. 6 that his troops fell upon the enemy near Shiloh Church. Grant's position was unfortified, in ...

The Killer Angels is a book about the battle at Gettysburg, a battle of the Civil War that changed it's very direction. The book is told from several points of views, going through each day and telling the stories of several officers present at the Battle of Gettysburg in the summer of 1863. The boo...

Lincoln was elected president in November in 1860, and took office March 4, 1861. South Carolina had threatened to secede, if Lincoln won the presidency. Four days after the election, legislature met at Charleston and South Carolina unanimously voted to secede. Six weeks later, six other states fo...

It is often said that the south couldn't have won the civil war, well this essay is going to reflect the various ways in which the Southern states attempted to fight a losing battle from the beginning. The economic dependency of the South on cotton on slavery was well known, whereas the North h...

John Brown once said, "Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose tights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjus...

The movie Glory is a very touching and inspiring movie, and it is believed by many to be the best war movie of all time. The movie is based on the letters of Robert Gould Shaw and it is a true story about the formation of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts and the impact that they had on the outco...

Nick Sullo BATTLE OF BULL RUN On a warm July day in 1861, two great armies of a divided nation clashed for the first time on the fields overlooking Bull Run. Their ranks were filled with exited young volunteers in colorful new uniforms, gathered from every part of the country. Confident their enem...

Nick Sullo BATTLE OF BULL RUN On a warm July day in 1861, two great armies of a divided nation clashed for the first time on the fields overlooking Bull Run. Their ranks were filled with exited young volunteers in colorful new uniforms, gathered from every part of the country. Confident their enem...

"The removal of General McClellan represents a lost for the army of the Potomac and a victory for the interfering politicians in Washington." General McClellan is an officer whom proved to be better at organization and training than at fighting. His removal left the army of the Potomac wi...

The Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17, 1862. The United States Army of the Potomac led by General George B. McClellan fought against the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia led by General Robert E. Lee. The battle was fought along the Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Both of...

By late afternoon, on the 2nd July, 1863, after fierce hand to hand fighting, Major General John B. Hood's 3rd Division's flanking attack on Big Round Top had been successful. Meade realising the lack of troops on the Round Tops had rushed the 1st Maine to try to thwart Jackson who having ...

In the late fall of 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman and his 105,000 Union soldiers marched through Georgia and into the Carolinas. Serving his country in the American Civil War, Sherman hoped his "march to the sea" would lower the Confederates' morale and help he and his men win the ...

The Battle of Hampton Roads The battle of Hampton Roads often called "the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac was a naval battle (a battle fought using ships, which mainly occurred at sea.) The American Civil war taking place from March 8 to Marc...

Civil War Prediction It is after close observation of both sides that I have come to the conclusion that it is the Confederate Army who will win the Civil War. The South is blessed with superior leadership and a greater motivation than the North could ever hope ...

On July 1st, 1863, a Confederate army led by General A. P. Hill arrived near Gettysburg to have what they thought to be a small skirmish. The area appeared to have few Union soldiers protecting it so the Confederate army began to march along Chambersburg Pike. Unbeknownst to the Confederate troops,...

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION The year is 1863. The United States is entering into the third year of the War of Northern Aggression. Already hundreds of thousands of lives have already been lost by the United States alone in this bloodiest war the World has ever seen. President Lincoln is posed ...

Battle of Gettysburg: Turning point of the war. The American people in 1860 believed they were the luckiest people alive in all the world. This was before the start of what some believe as "the first real civil war." (Catton 108). The battle, demonstrating as it did the effective...

The Civil War is commonly thought to have been caused by the idea or institution of slavery in the United States. Although slavery did play a part in leading to the Civil War, the true cause of the United States of America being divided into two separate entities was succession. More specificall...

Why the Confederacy Lost Throughout history many historians have tried to put their finger on the exact reason for the Confederacy losing the war. Some historians blame the head of the confederacy Jefferson Davis, however others believe that it was the shear numbers of the Northern army that ...