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Remembering the American Civil War was amongst the most devastating events in American history. Three million enlisted personnel fought in it, and over 600,000 people lost their lives in this war fought by Americans on American soil - a landmark figure in the history of modern warfare. Yet, despite the horrendous amount of bloodshed and lost resources, it proved to be a historical turning point for a nation in search of an identity. Reform and change followed it, and America was forever redefined.
Sparked off by newly elected President Abraham Lincoln’s anti-slavery platform, the Civil War was basically catalyzed by dissenting Southern states who wanted to protect their own interests and accustomed way of life. A number of states such as Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas adopted an Ordinance of Secession from the Union, which Lincoln was determined to preserve at all costs. The Confederacy wad formed and drafted its own Constitution...the variations is presented from the official Constitution of the United States became the bone of contention and led to one of the most tragic and bloodiest wars ever fought.
Remembering the American Civil War was amongst the first to employ weapons of mass destruction, while relying on time-honored tactics of warfare to further enhance the bloody results. For this reason, it will stand forever as the event that forever changed our concept of the wages and vagaries of war. Most of us have only the vaguest comprehension of what Remembering the American Civil War stood for and what it entailed in terms of the issues at stake, the lives lost, and long-term repercussions. Though it is a required academic topic in most American educational institutions, students rarely derive any sense of the immense magnitude of the four bloodiest years in the history of the United States.
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Army Life in a Black Regiment
Remembering the American Civil War was amongst the most devastating events in American history. Three million enlisted personnel fought in it, and over 600,000 people lost their lives in this war fought by Americans on American soil - a landmark figure in the history of modern warfare. Yet, despite the horrendous amount of bloodshed and lost resources, it proved to be a historical turning point for a nation in search of an identity. Reform and change followed it, and America was forever redefined.
MILITARY REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR Vol 1
At Cross Lanes I met the commanders of the other brigades who were called in by General Rosecrans of an informal consultation based upon my knowledge of the country and the enemy. I naturally scanned them with some interest, and tried to make the most of the opportunity to become acquainted with them. General Benham I knew already, from his visit to me at Gauley Bridge in his capacity of engineer officer. I had met Colonel Robert McCook at Camp Dennison, and now that it was intimated that he would be for some days under my command, I recalled a scene I had witnessed there which left many doubts in my mind whether he would prove an agreeable subordinate.
MILITARY REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR Vol 2
It needs no proof that such a report would have great influence at Washington, and if it at all
harmonized with the drift of impressions caused by the inaction and the wrangling of the summer, it
would be decisive. It was with it in his pocket that Mr. Stanton had cross-questioned Garfield, and drew answers which, as he said, corroborated it. The same correspondence had set forth the universal faith in Thomas's imperturbable steadiness and courage, and the admiring faith in him which had possessed the whole army. The natural and the almost necessary outcome of it all was that Thomas should be placed in command of the Department and Army of the Cumberland, and Grant in supreme control of the active operations in the whole valley of the Mississippi. As to Rosecrans's removal, Grant did not bring it about, he only acquiesced in it; willingly, no doubt, but without initiative or suggestion on his part.
[Footnote: Grant's Personal Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 18.]
On the Trail of Grant and Lee
By Frederick Trevor Hill, 1911.
Both were Americans, and widely as they differed in opinions, tastes and sympathies, each exhibited qualities of mind and character which should appeal to all their fellow countrymen and make them proud of the land that gave them birth. Neither man, in his life, posed before the public as a hero, and the writer has made no attempt to place either of them on a pedestal. Theirs is a very human story, requiring neither color nor concealment, but illustrating a high development of those traits that make for manhood and national greatness.- The Author.
THE PAPERS AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
COMPLETE CONSTITUTIONAL EDITION
Immediately after Lincoln's re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand
speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on
the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows:
"It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong
for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its
existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion
brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election,
occurring in regular course during the rebellion, added not a little to
the strain.... The strife of the election is but human nature
practically applied to the facts in the case. What has occurred in this
case must ever occur in similar cases. Human nature will not change. In
any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall
have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.
Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn
wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.... Now that the
election is over, may not all having a common interest reunite in a
common fort to save our common country? For my own part, I have striven
and shall strive to avoid placing any obstacle in the way. So long as I
have been here, I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom.
While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election and
duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my
countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think for their own good, it adds
nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or
pained by the result."
Quotes and images From Abraham Lincoln
ABRAHAM LINCOLN QUOTES
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
Sir my concern is not whether God is on our side. My great concern is to be on God's side.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back
Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the lord makes so many of them.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally
You're about as happy as you make up your mind to be!
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
The Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee is one of the most useful sources about the great Confederate General. Lee died before he could write his autobiography, although he had been considering it. This collection of his letters was collected by his son, Captain Robert E. Lee, who also fought for the Confederacy. One unexpected feature of this book is that sixteen of the twenty four chapters cover the five years between the end of the war in 1865 and Lee's death in 1870, giving a interesting insight into the life of a great leader after the failure of his cause.
The Red Badge of Courage
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring
fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened,
and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long
troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river,
amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army's
feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful
blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of
hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills.
Once a certain tall soldier developed virtues and went resolutely
to wash a shirt. He came flying back from a brook waving his
garment bannerlike. He was swelled with a tale he had heard from
a reliable friend, who had heard it from a truthful cavalryman,
who had heard it from his trustworthy brother, one of the
orderlies at division headquarters. He adopted the important air
of a herald in red and gold.
"We're goin' t' move t'morrah--sure," he said pompously to a
group in the company street. "We're goin' 'way up the river,
cut across, an' come around in behint 'em."
Stonewall Jackson Volume 1
...detail the strategy of the campaigns with which Jackson had...gentlemen who took part in the Civil War, whether he be Northerner...would like to see truthful history written. Such history will...imbibing the doctrine of States rights with his mothers...THE UNITED STATES, 1861 110...SKETCH OF WEST VIRGINIA IN 1861 186...River, but in different States of the Union, were born...Lincoln, President of the United States, and of Stonewall...dramatic interest of the Civil War, the career of the great...form his character, its history and traditions may be briefly...William. In Washingtons campaigns more than one of the Jacksons...taught at all. The art of war gave place to ethics and...fortification. Yet with French, history, and drawing, it will...a soldier. Many went to civil life, and the Academy...railway system of the United States was then in its infancy...
Stonewall Jackson Volume 2
...up midway across the upland, offered a rallying point to the retreating infantry. Three small squadrons of the 5th United States Cavalry made a gallant but useless charge, in which out of seven officers six fell; and on the extreme right the division...upland the Confederate infantry, shooting down ____________________ 1 Report of Committee on the Conduct of the War. the terrified teams, rushed forward in hot pursuit. 22 guns, with a large number of ammunition waggons, were captured...flying enemy may possess, if they are vigorously attacked whilst the fugitives are still passing through their ranks, history tells us, however bold their front, that, unless they are intrenched, their resistance is seldom long protracted...
The American Indian as a participant in the Civil War
The Civil War was a major event in the lives of southern Indians who had been removed to Indian Territory in the antebellum period. Early attempts to remain neutral crumbled under pressure from their Arkansas and Texas neighbors, clever Confederate diplomacy, and indifference from a United States concerned with more pressing problems. By the fall of
1861, the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles had signed Confederate treaties and organized military companies to serve as a home guard. Thus the southern Indians became a part of the bloodiest war in United States history. Their participa-
tion in the conflict is the subject of the second volume in Annie Heloise Abel Slaveholding Indians.
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War
The following diary was originally written in lead-pencil and in a book the leaves of which were too soft to take ink legibly. I have it direct from the hands of its writer, a lady whom I have had the honor to know for nearly thirty years. For good reasons the author's name is omitted, and the initials of people and the names of places are sometimes fictitiously given. Many of the persons mentioned were my own acquaintances and friends. When, some twenty years afterward, she first resolved to publish it, she brought me a clear, complete copy in ink. It had cost much trouble, she said; for much of the pencil writing had been made under such disadvantages and was so faint that at times she could decipher it only under direct sunlight. She had succeeded, however, in making a copy, verbatim except for occasional improvement in the grammatical form of a sentence, or now and then the omission, for brevity's sake, of something unessential. The narrative has since been severely abridged to bring it within magazine limits.
In reading this diary one is much charmed with its constant understatement of romantic and perilous incidents and conditions. But the original penciled pages show that, even in copying, the strong bent of the writer to be brief has often led to the exclusion of facts that enhance the interest of exciting situations, and sometimes the omission robs her own heroism of due emphasis. I have restored one example of this in a foot-note following the perilous voyage down the Mississippi.
G.W. Cable.
The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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