On November 15th, 1864, Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Grand Army of the West, embarked on a raid which would become known as the march to the sea designed to cut a 60 mile wide swath from Atlanta to Savannah. Once in Savannah he would turn north through South and North Car...

The Centralia Massacre William "Bloody Bill" Anderson and his Bushwhackers The Kansas/Missouri border wars resulted in some of the bloodiest and violent conflicts prior to and during the Civil War. These conflicts started far before the beginning of the Civil War with the signi...

The Greatest Man in U.S. History Abraham Lincoln, the greatest man in U.S. history, had many great accomplishments for this nation throughout his presidency. The most significant of these accomplishments was the abolishment of slavery. His love for America motivated him to do what he knew to be...

The Battle of Gettysburg is without question the most well known battle of the Civil War. Evidence of this is the Civil War reenactments, which take place the same days of the battle year after year. This paper will discuss the movements during the latter half of the Battle of Gettysburg such as t...

William Tecumseh Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman was born on February 8, 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was given his middle name after the Shawnee chief Tecumseh. Tecumseh had tried to unite the tribes of the Ohio River Valley against American forces on their land in the first decade of th...

The American Civil War The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding the end of the American Civil War. This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American Civil War was truly tragic in terms of hu...

Abraham Lincoln's assassination was a malevolent ending to an already bitter and spiteful event in American history, the Civil War. John Wilkes Booth and his group of co-conspirators developed plans in the late summer of 1864 to only kidnap the President and take him the Confederate c...

Abraham Lincoln's assassination was a malevolent ending to an already bitter and spiteful event in American history, the Civil War. John Wilkes Booth and his group of co-conspirators developed plans in the late summer of 1864 to only kidnap the President and take him the Confederate ca...

Gettysburg, the largest, bloodiest, and most celebrated battle of the Civil war, is said by many to be the turning point of the war that killed 618,000 Americans. Gettysburg the movie was four hours long, which is about 68 hours less than it actually took for the battle to come and go. The first...

It is nearly undisputed that Abraham Lincoln was the United States greatest president, and because of this other historians have described the greatest leaders of other nations as "Lincolns." Clemenceau is noticed as the Lincoln of France, but amidst his passionate politics, a scandal aro...

William Tecumseh Sherman was born in Ohio on February 8, 1820 to Charles R. Sherman and Mary Hoyt Sherman. He was the sixth of ten children. His father was a Supreme Court Judge so he was not home often, but when he came home on horseback, a family tradition was that the first child to reach hi...

The Civil War a major turning point in U.S. History had a major effect on our country. It lasted four years and affected the entire nation. Many famous battles were fought and charges were led. Many famous generals and many infamous people were lost, and many thousands were killed. On July 1863...

The Confederate Ironclad "Virginia" was a compelling read to say the least. The subject of this book is the origin of the Ironclad battleships in the Americas, specifically relating to the ships "Virginia" and the "Monitor" in the beginning of the U.S. Civil War. The ...

The Battle of Gettysburg was fought during the third summer of the war, and definitely proved to be a vital turning point. Although the war lasted until 1865, the Battle of Gettysburg helped decide the overall outcome of the war. The Battle of Gettysburg prompted President Abraham Lincoln to give ...

"I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Abraham Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges April 4, 1864 (Donald page1) Abraham Lincolns only motive when he first took office, as president on February 23, 1861, was to preserve the broken Union. He ...

Killer Angels The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, examines the approach to that decisive battle and the battle itself through the eyes of several participants on both sides, but especially through those of General James Longstreet of the Confederacy and Colonel Lawrence Chamberlain of the Union. T...

War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville was written by the same man who authored such compelling books as Shiloh: In Hell Before Night and Chattanoga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy. That man could only be Civil War buff and historian James Lee McDonough. Currently, James Lee McDonough is a...

War Is Hell William Tecumseh Sherman was a great asset towards the union winning the civil war. General Sherman's many smaller victories brought him to the height in his military career, the Atlanta campaign. Some say that Sherman's great march to the sea was purely barbaric. However this...

JUNE 3Oth, 1863 Today is the day Tuesday June 30th, 1863. Variable weather. There is sunshine and rain. On the 24th General Robert E. Lee leads the troops across the Potomac River headed towards Pennsylvania. General Lee is the Commander of the Northern Virginia Army. Major cities in the Nort...

The American Civil War, from 1861-1865, marked one of the most permanent changes in American history; transforming the country economically, politically and socially, leading to the virtual reconstruction of a burgeoning nation. Whilst the war increased northern prosperity, the South's entire socie...

Civil War Civil war was the greatest war in American history. It was waged in 10,000 places-from Valverde, New Mexico, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than three million Americans fought in it and more than 600,00 men died in it. It was not only the immensity of the fight b...

The Battle of Gettysburg The turning point in the Civil War consisted of two major armies, clashing on the battlefield creating more bloodshed on American soil than any other battle up to this point in history. The "Army of Northern Virginia," lead by General Lee consisted of 75,000 me...

Chapter 14 Summary In spite of political leaders' last-minute efforts to find a compromise over slavery that would preserve the Union, the election of Lincoln, followed by the secession of six southern states, pushed the country into war. The North had twice the resources of the South, and the...

At the start of the Civil War, President Lincoln offered Robert E. Lee command of the Union forces. His loyalty to Virginia compelled him to decline and he went on to become the beloved leader of the Confederate army. Because of Robert E. Lee's reputation in his early life, his strategies in w...

Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation He comes to us in the mists of legend as a kind of homespun Socrates, brimming with prarie wit and folk wisdom. There is a counterlegend of Lincoln, one shared ironically enough by many white Southerners and certain black Americans of our time. Neither o...