Belle Boyd had braved enemy lines to bring informal information to Jackson. ... She realized that many of the prisoners had been marched through Confederate lines on their way to Richmond and were full of useful information about Confederate movements. ... Later, she worked as a field surgeon near the Union front lines for almost two years (including Fredericksburg and in Chattanooga after the Battle of Chickamauga). ... She continually crossed Confederate lines to treat civilians. ...

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The soldiers that did make it past the artillery had to face the Union lines and muskets. ... He began to move past wounded struggling to the rear, men falling out to help, heard the sergeants ordering the men back into the line, saw gray faces as he passed, eyes sick with fear, but the line moved on. (324-325) General Lee is certain that the Union lines would break and orders Pickett's fresh division to the front to lead the charge. ...

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His partisan rangers wreaked so much havoc behind Union lines that the Confederate War Department officially designated the partisans as the 43rd  Battalion of Virginia Cavalry on June 10, 1863. ... This select group of men on horseback provided raids behind enemy lines so much so that Mosby himself became known as the Gray Ghost. ... The strengths I saw in Mosby's Memoirs were his own personal experiences being presented as interpretations of the war itself and just what occurred on the front lines. ...

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One of his famous lines that stood out was when Douglass said, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man". ... While walking on the docks he noticed a pile of coal in front of a house. ...

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Reaction to War Letters" I am really glad that I was introduced to this book called War Letters. The book really gives focus on the emotional side of males. It has been long known that men, on many occasions, have trouble expressing their feeling, and ultimately what they want. In this extraor...

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By mid-morning the Confederates seemed within easy reach of victory overrunning one front-line Union division and capturing its camp. ... Meanwhile, Johnston's flanking attack stalled in front of Sarah Bell's peach orchard, and the dense oak thicket labeled the "hornet's nest" by the Confederates because of the constant bullets that kept flying through the air. ... The Confederates broke through the union lines and won the first day of battle. ...

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From the end of July through September, the Division occupied and controlled two sectors of the Allied lines at Lucey and Marbache. ... The seventeen men, due to a misreading of their map (which was in French not English) mistakenly wound up behind enemy lines. ... Once the Germans realized that the American contingent was limited, machine gunners on the hill overlooking the scene turned the gun away from the front and toward their own troops. ...

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In July 1862, Clara Barton lobbied and won permission to travel behind the lines to administer aid to soldiers of both the North and South. ... In front of Lee, Phil Sheridan's Union Calvary wreaked havoc with the retreat, while the pursuit by the Union Army of the Potomac was constantly attacking his rear guard. ... Sherman's mission was to destroy the Southern home front and crush the South's spirit by annihilating the economic and transportation infrastructure. ...

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It provides believable story lines and never leaves you guessing if something in the plot really could have happened. ... The fantasy fiction novel's lines are purposely filled with adventure and sometimes-unbelievable happenings. ... They had white-domestic awnings in front, and the country people hitched their horses to the awning posts. ...

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(Adams) Several movies do a great job in depicting WWI including The Lost Battalion and All is Quiet on the Western Front. ... On the other hand the film All is Quiet on the Western Front stars Lew Ayres as the young Paul Bauman, who, along with a group of his teenaged classmates, are conscripted into the German army during WWI. The youths quickly realize that the patriotic hogwash they had been fed by their schoolmaster has absolutely has nothing to do with the horror they observe and experience on the front lines (All is). ...

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The Rise of "Unconditional Surrender- Grant He sat opposite the impeccably dressed Lee, in plain clothes and muddy boots. His overall appearance did little to suggest that he was the highest ranking general in the union army. How such an unlikely hero attained this position then managed to outma...

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Although they had white supporters and sympathizers, the modern Civil Rights Movement was designed, led, organized and operated by African Americans who placed themselves and their families on the front lines in the struggle for freedom. ...

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The American Civil War I. INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding the end of the American Civil War. This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American Civil War was truly tragic in terms of human life. ...

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After the battle his men wondered why he rode in the front with his men instead of watching from the sidelines. ... During the seven day engagement, General Jackson was riding through his lines assessing the troops at night with his group of officers and aides. ...

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The American Civil War I. INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding the end of the American Civil War. This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American Civil War was truly tragic in terms of human life. ...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

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This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. However, during the war, they proved themselves to be brave and courageous men on and off the battlefield on many occasions. Despite deep prejudices and harsh criticisms from the white society, t...

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