Confederate commander Joseph E. ... In the Battle of Fredericksbury, Burnside's forces were defeated somehow in a series of attacks against entrenched Confederate forces at Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Burnside was replaced with General Joseph Hooker. ... He crossed the Rappahannock River to attack General Lee's forces. ...
Influenced by Joseph Adison's Spectator and its promotion of "moral decency and rational religion" she tended to prefer reason and judgment over fancy and invention. ... (Akers 37) And even though, she eventually became a best informed woman in the nation, when it came to issues of public affairs, Abigail Adams remained within her sphere, careful not to cross the nature-imposed line between two sexes. ...
Some authorities say McClellan was a great general, but most of them believed he was too careful on the battlefield Barton, Clara (1821-1912), was the founder of the American Red Cross. ... In 1831, Turner and about 70 other slaves liberated themselves by killing 60 whites in Virginia, including the family of Joseph Travis, Turner's owner. ...
On April 12th 1861 one of the bloodiest wars in United States history began and would divide the nation for five hellish years. This "Civil War" would pit brother against brother, father against son and even friends and friends. As one after another of the southern states succeeded, the reverend lea...
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...
