When it became obvious that there was going to be a shooting war between the North and the South, there were days of immense personal conflict to a great many regular army officers. Among them, of course was Robert E. Lee, who was one of the most famous officers in the army, and to whom… Read More »
When the republicans won in the 1860 election and Abraham Lincoln was the President-elect, the leaders of the Cotton Belt in the deep South knew perfectly well that although he was not an abolitionist and had never advocated the destruction of slavery in the states, slavery was not safe with him in the White House.… Read More »
Follow a civil war soldier through a battle and you find that you are studying two incomprehensible paths through space. One is the trajectory of the bullet that kills him and the other is the trajectory of the man. If these two trajectories meet, they both end and one who looks on at a safe… Read More »
In the United States, during the first half of the 1860s, one of the bloodiest wars was fought in American History. This war, The American Civil War was fought to prevent the separation of the United States. Above all the reasons listed including slavery, the South was fighting to maintain their way of life and… Read More »
Being president of the United States in wartime is, of course, an overwhelming job. The president has to be a military strategist because he is, in the long run, the Commander in Chief of the country’s armed forces. He also has to be enough of an economist and a financier to see to it that… Read More »
One of the oddest things about the American Civil War was the fact that the two countries that were trying their best to destroy each other – the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Union- discovered very soon that they could not possibly get along without each other. They were bound together by economic ties that… Read More »
“After Four Years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield.”. , Thus began General Robert E Lee’s farewell address to his army. The decision to yield had not come easy. Only after it became obvious that it would be useless to go on… Read More »