Kellogg's Grove History

were dead and more were wounded.” (Document 3) Also as the picture depicts, the Boston men

After arriving at Valley Forge Martin and his fellow soldiers were about to go through the famously long cold winter that awaited them. Martin wrote, “Our prospect was indeed dreary. In our miserable condition, to go into the wild woods and build us habitations to stay (not to live) in, in such a weak, starved and naked condition, was appalling in the highest degree” (Martin 89). He talks about lying there “two nights and one day, and had not a morsel of any thing to eat all the time” (Martin 90).

He describes the white colonists, claiming they are “like poisonous serpents; when chilled, they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth, and they sting their benefactors to death”. The use of the simile emphasizes the danger of the white colonists that

In 1854 Curly visited the Brules' camp with his tribe. There he was introduced to the Brule Chief Conquering Bear. While visiting, a young Brule warrior shot an old near death cow belonging to a man from a Mormon wagon train. The Mormon was furious and demanded the warrior be turned over. Conquering Bear refused and soon Second Leuteneant John Grattan, 29 soldiers, two Howitzer cannons, and an interpreter were sent to retrieve the young Indian. Conquering Bear still refused to turn him over. During all of this Curly is watching atop a cliff. The soldiers began firing into the Brule camp. Conquering Bear fell to the ground mortally wounded (McMurtry 48-62).

That was the reason for the visit to Gettysburg. It was a trip with Edward Everett to dedicate a newly created cemetery that was must needed in the country at the time due to all the fallen during the war. President Lincoln followed Mr. Everett’s two hour speech with his two minute speech which was decided in nature to sum up what Mr. Everett just talked about. A key thing to remember in the Gettysburg address was the importance not to forget about the fallen young Soldier’s on the battle field. This is mentioned in the in the second sentence of the second paragraph “ We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live”. What the President is talking about is the importance of not just remembering the fallen but also reminding the audience of why they died. They died believing in a cause; weather it’s about uniting the country or making two separate

He repeats this subject in the following sentences, speaking of the consecration of, the hallowing of the ground on which the soldiers fought. Lincoln uplifts the efforts made by the soldiers above anything that might be said by those who did not participate in the battle, even though also including those who survived: "the brave men, living and dead." (Lincoln 1).

He states that the Civil War tested weather a nation with the standards and principals of the United States would make it. He dedicates the ground that the solders died on the great battle which they had just fought and stated that the solders would not be buried, but instead left were they fell in battle. Lincoln then tell the troops not the let the brave men who died’s deaths to have been in vein. He then says that the country shall have a new birth of freedom and that the United

An inscription was then added to the tomb that said, “Honoring and Keeping Faith with America 's Missing Servicemen.”

As the British advanced in columns against the Americans in an effort to save the Americans limited supply of ammunition, it is said he ordered his men, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” When the Redcoats were within several dozen yards, the Americans let loose with a lethal barrage of musket fire, throwing the British into

Using an ancient tactic of warfare, the Sioux waited until troops thought the fighting had halted. Setting up decoys and the strategy plans, Red Cloud was ready to see the white man’s blood fall on the plains. When US Calvary men began to advance outside their fort range in search of a plea or peace treaty. Red Cloud gave the order for Crazy Horse to commence a raid. White men were butchered like cattle on the battlefield where

In November 1777, the Continental Army miraculously retreated and escaped the clutches of the British army and paced towards a winter camp-Valley Forge. Afterwards, George Washington, the Commander-in-Chief of the army, wrote to George Clinton, conveying the severity of their situation, "For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without [food], and the rest for three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion." The soldiers were without soap, consequently, horrible itching rashes arose. Brought from countless miles away, water was to be saved and drank sparingly, flour was soon to be gone and the soldiers could only imagine the juicy taste of meat. Poorly constructed huts

During the early stages of the war, temptation abounded among the many vulnerable, homesick young men in both Union and Confederate camps. Drunkenness, gambling, profanity, prostitution, and theft were rampant among the soldiers. “Seductive influences of sin” and “legions of devils” were among the observations of army chaplains who overlooked the camps.

In Webster’s Plymouth Oration, December 22 1820, he spoke to the people of how the pilgrims had arrived at Plymouth Rock and established an impressive self government. He then proceeds to explain to the people that it is their duty to carry on their memory through a perfected self government as an independent nation. The Bunker Hill Monument Speech, June 17 1825, commemorates the memory of fallen Bunker Hill soldiers. Webster also speaks of how the monument shall be ever present and the soldiers will forever be remembered through the monument. Webster also spoke at the funeral of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, August 2 1826. He speaks of the astounding deeds of these great men and explains how the Union could not have existed without them. He then speaks of how their service to the nation was unmatched and their memory will be preserved through the Union. In the Second Reply To Hayne, January 26-27 1830, Webster’s most famous speech, Webster combats Senator Robert Hayne’s claim that the nation is an association of sovereign states by saying that the nation is ruled by the people and it is their responsibility to maintain it. This two day speech installed Webster as a national Statesman. Another well known speech of Webster is the Seventh of March, March 7 1850. This speech explained to the country that slavery was something that

Hughes’s descriptive writing prompts the reader to visualize strong images of oppression in America. The speaker provides an image of an extremely suppressed group of people in the statement: “I am the red man driven from the land” (Hughes 21). This simple phrase creates a picture of the Native Americans being driven from their lands and forced to live on undesirable land, and, as a result, this invites the reader to acknowledge their severe oppression. Similarly, the speaker mentions the people who were “torn from Black Africa’s strand” (Hughes 50). This generates an image of boats packed with a depressing amount of broken people, waiting to be sold into slavery. These visual examples portray the severity of the situation that many Americans found themselves in. These

For example, he writes, “now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson” (244). Faulkner is describing the cemetery at which Miss Emily is being laid to rest, which is filled with the graves of Confederate soldiers who had fought in the Civil War; a war which is arguably the single most defining and important event in Southern history.