... all of this, it was imperative that the northern army ton win a major victory. On 13, September 1862 Corporal Barton W. Mitchell of the 27th Indiana found three cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a meadow near Fredrick Maryland. Lost due to the carelessness of a southern courier or staff officer, the paper proved to be of extreme importance. On the heading of ... Lee's had said on the day before the battle, "General McClellan has brought a superior force against us, but he has also brought himself." The Battle of Antietam was actually three separate battles that occurred on the same ...

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... spies during the Civil War. He read many books on Civil War spies but could not find a lot about female spies, so he had to look many different places to piece together all of the information. It was also difficult to gather information because there was a lack of official records and a lack of access to records. He called historical societies, libraries ... to interest the reader in said spy. For example, chapter 1 is titled, "Rebel Queen of Washington Spies: Rose Greenhow." Within each chapter there are subsections that help to separate and organize the stories; for example, "Reaching...

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... . Centuries later, even after the Civil War (the war that was so called fought to "free slaves" but in actuality was fought over power and control by two separate factions of the ruling class) Africans were still resisting. Ironically, Black men were enthusiastic to fight in the Civil War. They believed that by enlisting in the fight against " ... a standard rate of $1 per dozen pounds of wash. In this document, a police officer gives his account of the women's reasons for striking, "They swear they will never wash another piece for less than one dollar a dozen, but they will never g...

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... us that the person speaking in the poem is attempting to make his point known; he is a child of America also. The second section discusses a Negro man being sent into a separate room to take his meal due to the arrival of company. The man is not discouraged; he knows that someday this will change. The third ... piece of the poem alludes to a time when the man will be treated as an equal brother of America. When is happens "They"ll see how beautiful I am/ And be ashamed-/ I, ... ...

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