... Her wound was fatal and her sex was revealed. At first she refused to say her real name but as she lay there dying she consented to dictate a telegram to her father. It said, "Forgive your dying daughter. I have but a few moments to live. My native soil drinks my blood. I expect to ... deliver my country but the fates would not have it so. I am content to die. Pray forgive me Emily."" Another fairly well known story is that of Jennie Hodgers who served and fought for three years as ... in field hospitals. She was then appointed assistant surgeon of the 52nd Ohio Infantry. During this as...

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... boy, while others think that their regiment will never partake in a real battle. While watching this argument, Henry, the protagonist, decides that he would rather go lay down and think rather then take part in the heated argument between the soldiers. Henry, a simple farm boy, is rather excited when he hears the rumor ... fulfilling his worst nightmare. Instead of sticking out the battle with the rest of his regiment, he hides behind some brush in order to spare himself from dying. He listens in on the battle, and to much of his surprise, he hears cheering from what's left of his regime...

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... a foundation of American military glory" (214). Often in the midst of a great war with opposing sides, the human beings fighting the war are counted only as statistics in a great war of ideas or principles. However in the article "beyond the call of Duty" the human side of the Civil War is examined more ... intense kind of apprehension. Waiting for life or death or defeat or victory. The battle itself was a test of a man's ability to think for himself as well as follow order. The battles were noisy; full of shouts and cheers, commands and oaths, and of course the sounds of rifles and can...

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... War and after it ended up believing they had achieved segregation with whites. The beginning of the story is a systematic preconception for me, as the reader emphasizes his feelings based on his historical background and question myself if he is going through a hard moment, since he feels ... guilt and confused about what his grandfather told his father while dying in bed. It is a riddle for me, for him "It became a constant puzzle which lay unanswered in the back of my mind" These were the words his grandfather told his father ... symbolizes America's degraded value system( white power...

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... Beecher Stowe on April 20th, 1852; the book was written to portray Stowe's perspective and opinion on the southern way of life. This book was to lay down the kindling for the American Civil War. In the twentieth century the book was made into a movie twice, for the first time in 1927 in ... Tom's Cabin, Harriet bestows us with the dilemma of originally two slaves being traded off to pay their owners debt off. In the beginning of the book, as payment a well educated, religious, hard working slave is traded along with a young boy. When word gets around the hard working slave; Tom, accept...

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... to be an actress and found out important information that helped the north defeat the south. "Emily", another woman in the war was a woman only known as Emily. At the age of 19 she ran away from home and joined the drum corps of a Michigan regiment. The regiment was sent to Tennessee and ... the struggle for Chattanooga a mine ball pierced her side. Her wound was fatal and her sex was disclosed but she refused to reveal her real name but as she lay dying she decided to disclose a telegram to her father in Brooklyn. "I have but a few moments to live. My native soil drinks my blood. I expe...

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... of her sexuality is terrifying to her "I hate to think I've got to grow up and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster-(4). Jo also considers that being a girl is a waste of time because she can't do anything that is really important. The only ... "I can't get over my disappointment on not being a boy, and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old women- (4). "As she spoke, Jo took off her bonnet, and a general outcry arose, for all her abundant hair was cut short ... stories, whic...

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