Next a large supply train enroute from Camden to Pine Bluff is attacked by General Shelby using similar tactic of Poison Springs. A four hour battle and the Union lost the whole train, which was a great prize for the Confederates which included four big guns, 1500 horses and mules, wagons, ambulances and even reports on the state of Steele's Army from Steele himself. Steele now faced a hard decision, starve and surrender in Camden or retreat back to Little Rock. ... After a hard battle Steele manages to cross the rest of his army and destroy the Pontoon Bridge. ...

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He was not taught to play the guitar, he merely learned the hard way: lots of practice. ... He considered himself as a ""bo" because, as a youth, he longed to venture the world and sporadically jumped on a train for the Midwest. For two years he "rode the trains, worked odd jobs, and explored new places." ...

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Modern research seems to prove what novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe said with her 1859 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The dehumanizing experience of slavery affects every member of society. Many African American humans were really affected by slavery. Slavery was a problem that faced all Americans in the y...

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He immediately asked directions to New York City, and that night he took another train north. ... The life of Frederick Douglass was what seemed to be a typical life of a slave, sometimes he caught a break with his charm that most slave children did not have, but yet he was still treated badly as a slave and he worked very hard to find his way out of it forever and put an end to it using his own life as a resources to keep pushing on and do what he thought was right in his heart. ...

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Then, trained nurses were almost nonexistent and during the war a crucial need for skilled nurses arose. ... It could also be argued that the nurses of Dorthea Dix were pushing very hard for "professionalization," and they generated negative feeling among male medical officials. ... Dix worked hard, but she was hard to get along with. ... Through reviewing scholarly literature related to Dix, as well as impressions of her as recorded by several female diarists during the Civil War, one might conclude that she was either a truly strict, abrasive person, or that she was merely pushing as har...

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They managed to capture a few Union batteries, but were struck hard by some of Hancock's troops and what was left of The Iron Brigade, finally healing the break. ... When Lee turned back to Virginia, he took with him a seventeen-mile wagon train of wounded men. ...

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An exaggeration but none the less, it's not hard to believe that the rebels would oppose such a government composed of foreigners. ... Events such as this were so common that the burning had been announced earlier in the day and a "burning-special train" loaded up with passengers to go witness the event. ...

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Robert E. Lee Early Years: Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807. He was born in Stratford, Virginia. But after four years he moved from Stratford and moved to Alexandria, Virginia were he spent most of his youth. His father Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, a Revolutionary War hero, alo...

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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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• Grade Level: High School