... assignment was to assist in the design and construction of a U.S. army fort in Georgia. After his mission in Georgia, he went back to his home state, Virginia. There he met a woman by the name of Mary Anne Custis. Eventually, after courting, they fell in love and got married. With training at West Point ... Robert saw that the issue of slavery was tearing the nation apart and he was scared. He didn't know what he would do if Virginia seceded from the nation. Would he stay loyal to the union or fight for the state he grew up in? The time came for him to ... late. Lee made his decision....

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... section of the country. Another major factor that Lee had to sit and think about before he made his decision was his loyalty to Virginia. Does he stay loyal to Virginia and fight for the Confederacy? Or does he take up his stance as a Union-supporter and stay with the Union? These are ... just two of the possible hundreds of questions that Lee might have wrestled with. " the traditional rationale of Lee's ultimate decision is based on his Virginia loyalty- (Nolan 31). "At about the time this letter (to his son Curtis) was written, Lee had a conversation in San Antonio with Charles Anders...

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... War was in fact a civil war for multiple reasons. To begin with, the eleven states that declared themselves a new nation claimed to have seceded. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee all stated that they were no longer part of the Union, and proclaimed themselves to be the Confederate States of America. However, secession is illegal ... respectively, or to the people." However, the Constitution did in fact state that secession was illegal, as clearly written in Article 1 Section 10. Other may also argue that West Vir...

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... may shed light on the mind-set of Southerner's respect for their past. According to Dew, "the past is far from dead in the Southern reaches of the United States (7). "Virginia's Richmond City Council voted in favor of a mural of Robert E. Lee displayed in the Canal Walk along the James River. In 1998 ... , Virginia's governor proclaimed April as "Confederate History Month, as well as the Confederate battle flag floating over the South Carolina state capital. In Maryland, vanity license plates bearing small Confederate flags ... 's election was the final blow and a call for war. Successi...

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... nation's greatest martyrs. He was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. His ancestry was English. His father Thomas Lincoln was born on January 6, 1778 in Rockingham County, Virginia and died on January 15, 1851 in Coles Country, Illinois. His father was a farmer, and the carpenter. His mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln was born February 5, 1784 in ... Virginia, and died on October 5, 1818 in Spencer County, Indiana. His stepmother was Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln, was born on December 12, 1788 in Hardin County Kentucky, and died April 10, ... in putting down the rebellion. He...

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... took place on July 21, 1961, and was to be the day "bearing the fate of the newborn confederacy." (Beauregard). The battle of Bull Run was fought in Virginia, near the Manassas, Virginia railway junction, after which the battle is called (or First Bull Run, named after the flowing stream on the battlefield). According to Michael Golay, author of To Gettsburg and ... Union was quite primed for the next battle, the Confederate army had very good leadership behind it. The Confederate leader was General Robert E. Lee who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee thought he had everything...

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... new wife got malaria and she died only three months later. After the grieving loss, Davis went back to his plantation and lived there for ten years, until he married Virginia Howell, a 19 year old, 18 years less than he. He got elected as a senator from Mississippi but resigned to fight in the Mexican war. He resumed his position in 1847 ... for states rights. When the confederacy broke free from the Union, Davis wanted to take control of the confederate army, but was elected president instead. Davis was inaugurated in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, on February 22, ...

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... River by cutting off the South from the west, complicating the communication between the two. The last role was to capture the capital of the Confederate States of America, Richmond, Virginia. Politically, the plan was appealing; it permitted time for disposition to cool and encouraged the possibility of a peaceful return of the Union. Militarily, the Plan's goal was to engage in ... the North's overpowering advantages in population and industrial potency and accepted the imperative value of control over the Mississippi River Valley. The most important coastal section was Hampton Roads ...

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... . I have chosen four women, two from the North and two from the South; each with their unique and courageous story. Elizabeth Van Lew, was from the high society of Richmond Virginia. Yet Miss. Van Lew was a spy for the Union. She even had the opportunity to gain access into the Southern White House, and gather important information. Harriet Tubman, a runaway slave ... . I have chosen four women, two from the North and two from the South; each with their unique and courageous story. Elizabeth Van Lew, was from the high society of Richmond Virginia. Yet Miss. Van Lew was a spy for the Union...

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... . 5. Define the term Civil War? Civil War- a war between two different groups of the same country 6. How was the state of West Virginia created? On April 17, 1861 the Va. Secession Convention passed an ordinance of secession thus creating West Virginia. 7. Justify how many people Tennessee lost in the war? Civilwar.net states that Tennessee lost 6,777 people in the war. 8. Contrast ... ...

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... American soldier, a horse lover, and nine totally different others. Paul Fleischman did an exceptionally superior job making each character's individual personality different. The battle of Bull Run took place in Virginia near the Chesapeake Bay. Thousands of soldiers fought for their country and died. Twelve are described in this book, but even though it seems like there is no way to ... wars can be. Most go from wanting to kill a Rebel, to never wanting to lay a hand on a gun again. The battle of Bull Run takes place in the hills of Virginia in 1861. That is the main setting of this s...

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... was fascinated with leading men into battle. He did not care about the rewards of being a hero; he cared about being a hero for the sake of being a hero. From the Virginia Military Institute and West Point, to the Olympics in Stockholm, to the French Calvary school, Patton gained more and more leadership skills which he would use during the World Wars ... relate to some of the men he led into war because many of the soldiers did not have long, educational backgrounds. However, he did well in one year at the Virginia Military Institute and at West Point. He played football, but his caree...

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... Lee was an engineering officer with Winfield Scott's force. Jefferson Davis appointed Lee a general in the southern army in 1861. He was not successful in preventing an invasion of western Virginia, so he was sent to the Atlantic Coastal defense. In 1862 when Joseph E. Johnston was wounded, Lee became commander of the confederate army in ... Virginia. In Richmond Lee drove the unionist away from the capital in the Seven Days' Battles. In August he defeated the Northern army in the second Battle of Bull Run. In ... ...

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... of Gettysburg was called "Pickets Charge". It was the battle that ended the battle of Gettysburg. The thing that started this battle was General Lee invaded Northern Virginia, Pennsylvania area to help prevent fighting in Virginia and bring the Union army out of its protection and defenses. Another time during this whole battle, a colonel named Joshua A. Chamberlain ran out of ammunition and ... ...

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... in some 28,000 casualties and the North had 23,000. Lee had lost more than a third of his army and on July 4, 1863, the confederacy began its retreat to Virginia. The war was to go on for two more horrifying and sad years but the Confederacy never recovered from the losses of Gettysburg. And though the deep wounded of Confederate ... then made its way to join Grant at Richmond. The blockade they had created forced the Confederacy to surrender. On April 3, 1865 Lee surrendered at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. ...

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... untimely death. Yet, if he were to have survived, and live to see the end of the war, the outcome may have been very different. Jackson was born in Clarksburg Virginia in 1827. After age 2 was an orphan moving all over, being passed on from family member to family member. although young Stonewall Jackson lived with family, "...they did not provide ... his graduation from West Point, he served in the Mexican War, carrying two brevets and rank of major. After his time in the Mexican war, Jackson accepted a professorship at the Virginia Military Institute. At the institute he taught cadets...

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... states and the southern states. Many causes provoked the war, which would affect the nation for decades to come. Slavery, the Missouri Compromise, and John Brown's attack on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, were some of the many causes. In turn hundreds of thousands of soldiers died. The South's economy was devastated, and the northern ideals flourished. In the later 1700's to 1863 ... able to solve the problem of slavery. In October 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a violent attack. He and his band of 21 men attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. They hoped to spark a slave ...

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... it meant war. He eventually raised an army and navy of nearly 3 million northern men to face a southern army of over 2 million soldiers. In battles fought from Virginia to California (but mainly in Virginia, in the Mississippi River Valley, and along the border states) a great civil war tore the United States apart. In pursuing victory, Lincoln assumed extra-legal powers over the ... ...

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... Lee's first invasion of the North. After a victory at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Lee decided to invade Maryland, an effort to move the fighting away from war-torn Virginia as well as cut off the North's supply lines. (Civil War, American) In addition, he hoped that a successful invasion might force European nations to recognize the Confederacy. He moved from ... Virginia across the Potomac River into Maryland and sent most of his men under General Jackson to Harper's Ferry. The remainder of the troops pushed forward under Lee to Antietam Creek, ... ...

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... and disadvantages for both sides along with their strategies and the consequences this war brought. The precedents that led to the Civil War were many. The precedents include the Kentucky/Virginia resolutions, the Hartford Convention in 1815, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Tariff Abomination of 1828, the Compromise of 1850, and the Stricter Anti-Fugitive Slave Law. The Kentucky ... /Virginia Resolution involves any state can nullify laws. The Hartford Convention opposed war and adopted resolution. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was to allow Missouri enter as a slave state and Main...

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... . 5. Define the term Civil War? Civil War- a war between two different groups of the same country 6. How was the state of West Virginia created? On April 17, 1861 the Va. Secession Convention passed an ordinance of secession thus creating West Virginia. 7. Justify how many people Tennessee lost in the war? Civilwar.net states that Tennessee lost 6,777 people in the war. 8. Contrast ... ...

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Booker T. Washington Booker Taliaferro Washington was born on April 5,1856 in Franklin County, Virginia. Washington gained an early appreciation for the values of family and education. Booker had been blessed with an intact family, with one exception of having a white father who never contributed ... Booker's life you have to incorporate these developmental years because they greatly impact how he would pioneer educational progress for black adults. After the Emancipation, the family moved to West Virginia where it struggled to achieve a normal life. Young Booker attended a school for the ch...

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... other various letters and documents are found in state and national archives. Some archives are the Library of Congress and National Archives, the City of Fairfax Historic Collections in Fairfax, Virginia, and St. Albans Historical Museums. There was hardly any information on women such as Sarah Slater and Lottie Moon because of the secrecy of their jobs. It was difficult because ... ...

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... need to secede from the union. This action would wage in a bloody four year war that would end with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee in the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. At the close of the American Civil war, the United States was left to face the problem of re-admitting the southern states into the union. Within the years 1865 ... ...

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... catchers. These issues between the North and South worsen the relationship between them and lead to the Civil War. The second principal cause was John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. John Brown was an abolitionist who became famous after his standing at the Bleeding Kansas in 1885. His assault started in summer of 1859, and unluckily, he could only recruited ... ...

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