President Lincoln and General Scott exchanged many letters over the course of the civil war detailing their strategic plans. In this particular document, Lincoln writes to Scott about the movement of Maryland into the war. “The question has been submitted to, and considered by me, whether it would not be justifiable, upon the ground of necessary defense, for you, as commander in Chief of the United States Army, to arrest, or disperse the members of that body.”…
The camp was made to hold approximately 10,000 Union soldiers. However, by the summer of 1864, Andersonville already held 33,000 Union soldiers, which was more than any other Confederate prison camp. Because of the rapid growth in population at Andersonville, overcrowding became a serious problem. “By the time it closed in early May 1865, the sanitation, health, and mortality problems stemming from its overcrowding, had earned Andersonville a reputation as the most notorious of Confederate atrocities inflicted on Union troops (Georgia)”. Overcrowding at Andersonville was a big reason why it was such an infamous prison camp. A major reason for the overcrowding at Andersonville was because Abraham Lincoln stopped the exchange of POWs. President Lincoln wanted to make sure that all African-American POWs were treated the same as any of the White POWs. The Confederacy refused to do this, so President Lincoln stopped POW exchanges. Had the exchanges continued, the mortality rate at Andersonville most likely wouldn’t have been as…
The South took control of the fort early 1861. Instead of provoking them with armed conflict, Lincoln resupplied the fort by sending food, clothes, and other non-military supplies. A merchant ship, called the Star of the West, was sent to Fort Sumter with supplies and reinforcements for Major Anderson. It didn’t reach the fort due to the defense Governor Pickens had built up in the harbor.…
* Pres. sent reinforcements to Fort Sumter in Jan. 1861. First shots fired between both North and South.…
Andersonville Prison was officially known as Camp Sumter. The prison was originally built to only hold 10,000 men, but the number rapidly started growing. “The largest number held at any one time was more than 33,000 in August 1864” (Andersonville Prison). Not only was it very crowded but there was also little food, no clean water, and lots of diseases.…
On the night of June 16th, 1775 Colonel William Prescott built defenses with 1,200 men on Breed’s Hill located on Charlestown peninsula. In response, the British began burning the town of Charlestown and sent 2,400 British soldiers, under command of General Gage and Howe, up Bunker Hill expecting to decimate the Yankee militia. To strengthen his defenses, Prescott orders Putnam and his 2,000 men, to also hold the line. In order to take advantage of the hill’s elevation above the British, Colonel Prescott orders his men “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” causing the casualties of the British soldiers to amount to over 1,100. This was about one-sixth of the entire casualties suffered by the British during the war. After fending off two attempts to seize the hill, the Yankees were forced to withdraw when they ran out of ammunition on the British’s third attempt. British then seized the hill.…
A history teacher wants to teach history. How would he/she do this? There are many different ways to present history to a wide variety of audience members. People understand and interpret information all on a different level because of the way an author would present it, whether it be through an article or picture. There are many formats as to which there could be information presented - articles, videos, poems, and artwork. Three things that are essential to answering the question above: the genre of the information, knowing the audience, and containing the subject knowledge. The presentation must contain the above components to affect one's understanding of history in the most effective way. Despite all this, one must remember that no one…
The battle at Vimy Ridge was one of the most important and a major battle in world war one. It occurred along the path the Canadians took south to get from Belgium into northern part of France. It happened on April 9th, 1917, it has officially been one hundred years since this horrific battle. The Canadians, led by Sir. Arthur William Currie, attacked the German soldiers on a seven-kilometre grave yard (from another battle) on a ridge. The reason the Canadians and their allies wanted to capture Vimy was because there were to high peeks on Vimy ridge, that towered over an enemy occupied named Douai plain. The Canadian corps were all commanded to take over and destroy Vimy ridge together. It was the first ever time that all four Canadian…
While the United States was beginning to develop, conflict between the individual states was the cause for division between America in 1861. When several of the Southern states broke away from the Union the Civil War was starting to fuel. From there one of the bloodiest wars in American history took place when the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Federal military base in South Carolina. Through all of the battles and deaths, one of the greater aspects of the war was the courage and involvement of African-American soldiers and sailors of the Union army.…
Fort Sumter was a federal fort on an island in Charleston's harbor. My sister had a little clubhouse that only she and her friends were allowed in. She would try and push me away whenever I tried to come in.…
On August 5th, 1864, Rear Admiral David Farragut led the Union navy into Mobile Bay, Alabama, to face a smaller Confederate fleet under the command of Admiral Franklin Buchanan and neutralize three forts surrounding Mobile Bay to complete the Union blockade of the Gulf of Mexico. The battle would prove pivotal in the Union victory, as well as President Abraham Lincoln's re-election three months later. The Union fleet, under Farragut, used sheer power and numbers to decimate the Confederates.…
* Crittenden Compromise submitted by John J. Crittenden; called for several constitutional amendments, which would guarantee the permanent existance of slavery in the slave states and would satisfy S demands such issues as fugitive slaves and slavery in D.C…
April 12, 1861 marked the beginning of the Civil War when shots were fired at Fort Sumter, February 17, 1865 Fort Sumter and Charleston were abandoned by Confederate troops. Sherman’s troops were in enemy territory, the plan always was to wreak havoc in order to expedite the conclusion of the war, especially in South Carolina, which initiated secession. Morally speaking it was a necessary evil to end the bloodshed, the warring of one nation, and return peace to the country and the families it separated, it provided closure to one of the darkest moments in American history. Valueless Confederate money was burned as if it were firewood, rations were scarce and what was available was pathetic, Confederates states were unwilling to aid one another due to a mindset of pro state government versus anti federal government, the Confederacy was falling apart, and Sherman gave it the final push it needed. Total war was an effort for peace, which required “make[ing] war so terrible… and make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it.” It was a debated idea Sherman would either succeed and leave behind a legacy of brilliance, or be written off as a foolish military…
Lincoln warned the Confederacy of the shipment, and they knew that a war with the U.S. would begin if they fired at the supply ship. As president of the Confederacy, Davis chose to act before the supply ship arrived and take over Fort Sumter. Peace might be preserved if all goes as planned. A note was delivered to Major Robert Anderson demanding the surrender of Fort Sumter by April 12, 1861. The time came and passed and cannons were fired; for 33 hours, Confederates attacked Fort Sumter, consequently “wrecking the fort but killing no one” (The American Vision 344).…
The United states was no longer, now the confederate states of america had succeeded. At first succession did not provoke war it was radical and declared unconstitutional, but the Confederacy and the union were at a stalemate. Fort Sumpter in South Carolina was a union military outpost, Lincoln sent supply ships to resupply the outpost, giving prior notice to the confederates. Before the supplies could reach them, Fort sumpter was attacked by the confederacy and held for thirty- four hours before surrendering. The very next day president lincoln sent 75,000 military men to quash the rebellion. War Had begun.…