James Longstreet, January 9, 1821 -- January 2, 1904, was one of the foremost generals of the American Civil War, who later enjoyed a successful post-war career working as a diplomat and administrator for the government of his former enemies. Longst Continue Reading...
On July 3, Generals Lee and Longstreet continue to face-off, creating strife within their own troops. The political problems that Lee and Longstreet embody are mirrors for the brother-fighting-brother theme that is central to any civil war. Thus, Sh Continue Reading...
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1993) gives a detailed account of the Battle of Gettysburg -- the war that lured the dueling North and South to the tiny town of Gettysburg and was the first step in splitting the Union. Shaara gives his readers a vie Continue Reading...
Manassas -- How the Skirmish at Blackburn's Ford Shaped the Battle The Skirmish at Blackburn's Ford shaped the Battle of First Manassas by discouraging the Union Army, altering the Union Army's battle plans and encouraging the Confederate Army. Th Continue Reading...
Battle Analysis: Battle of Fredricksburg The Fredericksburg Battle The fighters who took part in the battle Union Forces A number of 31,659 soldiers constituting the Union Forces fought at the Battle of Fredericksburg. The Union Forces came from Continue Reading...
Killer Angels: A Novel by Michael Shaara. Specifically it will contain a summary and analysis of the book. "The Killer Angels" is a work of fiction that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975. It tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg from the viewpoin Continue Reading...
Gettysburg In a long war of attrition, which the Civil War became after 1861, all of the economic, financial and population advantages would favor the North since the South was a mostly agrarian region that imported its manufactured goods. Initially Continue Reading...
Civil War in Alabama The American civil war was a political turmoil that took place during the later years of the 18th Century, particularly between 1775 to 1783, where 13 British colonies joined together to liberate themselves from the British Empi Continue Reading...
Robert E. Lee was a significant figure in history and his actions impacted history in many ways. Lee is considered to be among other things, a great solider. He was also an ideal strategist and his decisions did lead to implications that can be seen Continue Reading...
Essentially little more than a last-ditch suicide run, Chamberlain's out-of-ammunition bayonet-charge captured a good portion of the Alabama brigade and turned the tide of Battle of Gettysburg in favor of the Union. It was the cry of men like Chamb Continue Reading...
(Steamboats, incidentally, did even better.) Due to the heavy emphasis on steam transportation, especially by rail the government was better equipped to man and supply vast areas of the nation in combat. The train also traveled at a far greater spe Continue Reading...
Gettysburg: Why Did Lee Engage the Union? “Four score and seven years ago.”[footnoteRef:1] The Battle of Gettysburg is today remembered best in the popular imagination as the inspiration of President Lincoln’s famous address. Lincol Continue Reading...
Civil War in American history [...] why the North won the Civil War, considering how the North and South developed during the 19th century, how the political, economic, and cultural development of the nation placed the North at an advantage and the Continue Reading...
Battle of Bristoe Station Tenants of Army Operation. Depth The relative depth of both armed forces at this point of the Civil War, both Confederate and Union, was at a critical juncture. Both armies were at a historically low point, numerically. Continue Reading...
In his proposal letter to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, he stated, "Our army consisted of a superior quality of soldiers, but it was in no condition to divide in the enemy's country. Lee recognized their lack of supplies, which would hinde Continue Reading...
What was the war's bloodiest day? Was it Gettysburg? No. It occurred in September, 1862, at Antietam Creek in Maryland, when 22,700 soldiers died. "[General] Lee "hoped to win decisively...but the Union army prevailed." Meantime, the Battle of Get Continue Reading...
The decisive moment in the Virginia theater came down to this: on the first day of the Wilderness, the new commander Grant stood behind the line and met Union troops that had been routed. Rather than ordering them to return to Washington as McClella Continue Reading...
" (p. 164) the army of Charles was defeated in this battle however, it was not destroyed. The total loss of life in this campaign for each side of the battle was astronomical. Chancellorsville The work of Lieutenant Colonel Herman L. Gilster entitl Continue Reading...
Battle of Bristoe Station led many to question the Confederacy's grasp of tactics as it was a strategic blunder. In many respects, it confirmed assumptions made after the battle of Gettysburg that the leadership of the Army of Northern Virginia's of Continue Reading...
Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign June-July 1863 About the Author Shelby Foote was born in Mississippi. His father died when he was five leaving his mother to raise him alone, he was also an only child. He was a reader from his early Continue Reading...
