As she knelt down to give one soldier a drink, she felt her sleeve quiver. ... "What could I do but go with them (Civil War soldiers), or work for them and my country? ... He wore a general soldier uniform with only a pair of shoulder-straps to designate his rank. ... The president was in a fine mood on this Good Friday evening, after the surrender of General Robert E. ... Several soldiers carried the Lincoln across the street to a house and placed him on a bed. ...

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The regular army had never enrolled black soldiers. ... August 1962 the War Department authorized the enlistment of contrabands as soldiers. ... Sometimes the South would execute captured black soldiers and their officers. ... At least 38,000 black soldiers died. ... This paper was and 85 so you might have to make some changes good luck and i hope that this paper helped you.I. ...

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It came very close to destroying the American government and culture for good, yet it also saved the country. ... As part of the Proclamation, Lincoln also urged black males to join the Union forces as soldiers and sailors. ... He eventually raised an army and navy of nearly 3 million Northern men to face a Southern army of over 2 million soldiers and in battles fought from Virginia to California, the great war tore the United States apart. During this time, Lincoln assumed extra-legal powers over the press, virtually ignored the Supreme Court, declared martial law in areas where no milita...

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Lincoln does not necessarily want this war to be going on, but he does not want what all these soldiers have died for to be in vain. ... Again, Lincoln shows the up most respect for the soldiers and that they have given the ultimate gift to their country, which were their lives. ... He thinks this is the ultimate thing a person can do, and is thankful for the soldiers doing it. ... He felt the fighting was doing more harm then it ever could good. ...

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Some felt that independence from Great Britain was a good thing, while others believed that becoming independent from the "mother country" would be treason and the end of the colonies. ... Britain had thousands more soldiers than the colonies, and they were better equipped and prepared than the colonist volunteer soldiers. ... While the barefoot, starving American soldiers were doing their best to hold off the redcoats, they were failing. ...

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This battle, Battle of Antietam, proved to be the bloodiest day of the war because more than 13,000 Confederates and 12,000 Union soldiers were killed in this battle. ... He understood that the North had advantages over the South in terms of soldiers and supplies. ... Starving soldiers began to desert Lee's forces. ... Before the real business, both of them were talking about other things rather than the Civil War and they seemed like good friends. ... The great war was over, but that didn't mean any good because millions of free slaves and white people found themselves w...

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We have soldiers over in Iraq right now risking their lives so that we the people of the United State may not only have simple freedoms but that we may go about a day without having to be worried about having the church we attend on Sunday to be bombed because some other country does not approve of our religion. ... This is not, however, always a good thing. ...

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To show how much the south disliked and loathed their neighbors, they proposed to secede for good if a republican assumes the 1860 presidential election. ... Ironically, there were no human casualties reported; yet, in truth, the soldiers would see how much it costs to be in a war. ... Casualties are in the thousands as soldiers are now experiencing the cost of war. Notwithstanding the routine drills, marching back and forth, and sickness, the soldiers continued on their quest to stand until the very end. ... On July 1-3 1863, The Battle of Gettysburg was fought with 23,000 Confederate and 28...

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And it was Lincoln who, out of his deep belief in democracy, had to cast and recast0 for both North and South, for both soldier and civilian-the issues that were being decided by the enormous bloodshed and suffering all was enduring. ... Inheriting the spoils system, he made good use of it, disposing of government jobs in such a way as to strengthen his administration and further its official aims. ... I think Lincoln had good ideas and strategies to win the war, like freeing the slaves and doing things his way. ...

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Ohio Leaders in the Civil War Ohio played an intricate role during the Civil War. The contributions toward the conflict were very impressive. Ohio had many eligible men serving in the military forces who participated in nearly every battle of the war. Military leadership proved substantial in numb...

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Lincoln was a good choice for a president during this time of secession. ... As they were marching through Baltimore, they met some resistance, rioters, and at the end innocent people and soldiers laid dead. ... The north possessed all the good factories to build adequate ships for war. ...

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Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln grew up working on farms with his father. At the time the Lincoln family did not have money for the children to go to school. Abraham was very interested in education and bettering himself. He would barrowed books from his ne...

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Lincoln demonstrated one of the traits that made him such a good leader early on when he decided not to attack the confederacy and declare war but stated that they would would not be the first to act if war was imminent. ... With the war in full scale Lincoln saw that he would need a lot more than the 75,000 current Unions soldiers he currently had and called another 500,000 union troops to fight. ...

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Surratt-didn't know about the conspiracy but she helped deliver messages and supplies such as guns-first woman hanged in US history Sam Arnold-ex-confederate soldier- Union store clerk-dropped out of the conspiracy-tried for conspiracy and convicted-later freed in 1869 Others Andrew Johnson- Lincoln's VP-Tennessee native-common man-poor drinker-Lincoln never really saw much of him-poor leader-died in 1875 Edwin McMasters Stanton-Secretary of War- important to Lincoln-warned Lincoln not to make public appearances-loyal, stubborn, hard working, emotional, hated-perfecti...

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