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- 51: Abraham Lincoln 4
- ... with enthusiasm, but the upper South seceded. As commander in chief, Lincoln encountered great difficulties in the search for capable generals. After the defeat of Irvin McDowell at the First Battle of Bull Run, the president appointed George B. McClellan to lead the eastern army but found him excessively cautious. His Peninsular campaign against Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, failed, and ... Lincoln, whose own strategy had not succeeded in trapping Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, virtually superseded McClellan with John Pope. When Pope was defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run, the president turned once more to McClellan, only to be disappointed again. Despite his victory at Antietam, Maryland, the general was so hesitant that Lincoln finally had ... also unfortunate. Decisively beaten at Fredericksburg, Virginia, Burnside gave way to Joseph Hooker, who in turn was routed at Chancellorsville, Virginia. Then Lincoln appointed George G. Meade, who triumphed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but failed to follow up his victory. Persisting in his determination to discover a general who could defeat the Confederates, the president in 1864 entrusted overall command to ...
- 52: A Gold Rush Leads To War
- ... largely of displaced and elderly Whigs, tried to downplay sectionalism, and spoke only of preserving the Union and the Constitution. They nominated John Bell. The race became a two-man battle between Lincoln and Breckinridge. Lincoln won a majority of electoral votes (180 of 303) but only gained 39% of the popular vote. Lincoln had made considerable abolitionist noise in the ... The Union, hearing of the Virginia's construction, built their own ironclad vessel, the Monitor, to intercept the Virginia before it broke through the blockade. The two ships met in battle, and after endless hours of shelling each other, both ships withdrew. Neither vessel would survive the damage they incurred in the battle. The other critical loss the rebels suffered was at Antietam, one of the Confederacy's precious few offensive campaigns. Until then, the British had considered aiding the Confederacy, despite ...
- 53: Gods And Generals
- ... his army to final victory against overwhelming odds. Lee had given a prayer, “Thank you for this place, for this ground,” (Pg. 288) thanking God for the advantage. At the Battle of Fre*censored*sburg where, for the first time, all four men meet on the same field and experience the exhilaration and raw horror of battle from four very different points of view. But it is in the next great fight, the Battle of Chancellorsville, that Lee's brilliant strategy and Jackson's supreme achievement are futile when Jackson is mortally wounded by his own men. This loss is the turning point ...
- 54: Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-Ho
- ... after the Germans had surrendered to the victorious Allied armies, a father in Indianapolis received a letter from his son who had been listed as "missing in action" following the Battle of the Bulge. The youngster, an advance scout with the 106th Infantry Division, had been captured by the Germans after wandering behind enemy lines for several days. "Bayonets," as he ... been, Vonnegut admits to nominating none other than Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin, college professor and Civil War hero whose valiant bayonet charged helped save the day for the Union at the Battle of Gettysburg. Although Vonnegut received instruction on the 240-millimeter howitzer, which he later dubbed the ultimate terror weapon of the Franco-Prussian War, he eventually ended up as a battalion ...
- 55: Charley Skedaddle
- ... the North. The main character is Charley Stephen Quinn. He was a young boy growing up in New York City without parents. Charley’s older brother Johnny died at the Battle of Gettysburg. We learned about Johnny through Charley’s memories. He lives with his older sister Noreen, who recently became engaged to be married. Charley was involved in a street gang called ... be a soldier he became a drummer-boy for the army. He trained and worked hard to be a good one. He may have been physically ready for his first battle, but emotionally he was not. I don’t think he really knew what killing a person involved. All of his life he watched the people he cared about be ...
- 56: Charley Skedaddle
- ... the North. The main character is Charley Stephen Quinn. He was a young boy growing up in New York City without parents. Charley’s older brother Johnny died at the Battle of Gettysburg. We learned about Johnny through Charley’s memories. He lives with his older sister Noreen, who recently became engaged to be married. Charley was involved in a street gang called ... be a soldier he became a drummer-boy for the army. He trained and worked hard to be a good one. He may have been physically ready for his first battle, but emotionally he was not. I don’t think he really knew what killing a person involved. All of his life he watched the people he cared about be ...
- 57: Medical Revolutions
- ... heading back to the old homestead. This is exactly the case for Inman in the novel, Cold Mountain, by Carles Frazier. After suffering a severe wound to his neck during battle, Inman is thought to be destined for death. However, he is taken to a medical facility where the doctors leave him alone to stare through the open window in pain ... ever been engaged. According to Federal records, three out of four operations were amputations and there is a good reason to believe the same figures obtained in the Confederacy. At Gettysburg, for an entire week, from dawn to twilight, some surgeons did nothing but cut off arms and legs. The sound of the saw, the gushing of blood, and the squeak ... century. Once the knife and the saw had done its duty, the question was would microbes attack, and moreover would they win? In general, it was the patient’s toughest battle, an engagement of toxins, pus, hemorrhage, fever, and terrifying convulsions pitted against Mother Nature. But nature could be aided, sometimes with telling success. Good food and tender care, if ...
- 58: Building And Keeping A
- ... and settle the differences between them. This trust was partly gained by heroes of the Revolutionary War becoming politicians. An example of this was George Washington. He led troops into battle during the war and then became president. American people found it very difficult to start a rebellion or disagree with someone that had led them to victory against Britain. With ... southerners but made most everyone else happy. In the early times of the continental empire it was important to keep everyone believing in America. To reestablish that Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address. It restated what Americans believed in and got them fired up for their country. The Gettysburg Address fueled America's continental empire. The United States was running smoothly on all fronts except that of slavery. Slavery nearly split America into two separate countries. Had the ...
- 59: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... to training duty for new cadets. He desperately wanted to see action during the war, and applied for an overseas assignment. His own skill would prevent him from participating in battle during that war. Higher officers saw the ability that he had as an organizer and trainer, and put him in command of Camp Colt at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, instead of granting his overseas request. One of the army’s first tank corps was being formed there, and Eisenhower trained the fighting unit. In the October of 1918 ... in office when U.S. entered the space age with its first successful launching of a satellite into orbit. Before he left office in January 1961 for his farm in Gettysburg, he urged the necessity of maintaining an adequate military strength, but cautioned that “vast, long-continued military expenditures could breed potential dangers to our way of life.” He pursued ...
- 60: Abe Lincoln
- ... issue. In 1962 he announced the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all slaves belonging to owners in the succeeded lands would be free as of January first 1962. In 1863 at Gettysburg, the only battle on Northern soil, the Union defeated the Confederacy, and later that year the battlefield was declared a national cemetery for all those that died there. At the dedication of this, President Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg address that was awed by even Edward Everett, a noted orator who also spoke there that day. The year of 1864 exhausted Abe Lincoln exhausted by the burden of ...
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