The Alabama, Florida, And The Shenandoah

When word of African Americans enlisting in the Union Army got out, the Confederate Army lashed out many threats. They

Florida and Shenandoah National Park have many commonalities as well as differences that makes each of these geologic setting unique. Though North America looks like Florida and Shenandoah National Park never seemed to collide with one another, Shenandoah has a rock record of being about 1 billion years old that constructed the North American continent and a building block that formed the Appalachians through orogenies. Florida falls about 300 million years old with the North American plate, however findings that were part of Gondwana provides evidence of the origin of Florida. With a vast time difference of these rock records, what can be furthered analyzed of what the

It was said to be able to outrun even the fastest of naval vessels, making it a valuable asset for those seeking to transport valuable goods across the seas safely. The ship was also equipped with a formidable array of cannons, making it a formidable foe in battle. Many pirates and enemy ships quickly learned to fear the sight of the Cecil Ship on the horizon, as

The Union Navy closed ports and rivers to choke CSA imports and exports. The battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia was a pivotal part of the Union strategy to subdue the state during the Civil War 1861-65. Abraham Lincoln was the 16 American President who served in office from March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865. Daring adventures, called blockade runners, risked capture to bring in needed goods. These blockade runners, mostly private ships, made money and became heroes in the South, but their efforts were weak. During the Civil War, Georgia and the others Confederate states had to begin manufacturing their own goods. The Union Blockade was part of a military strategy, known as the Anaconda

By the end of the Civil War the Union Navy had captured more than 1,100 blockade runners and had destroyed or run aground another 355 vessels. The ships employed in blockade-running were almost all privately owned, many of them built by the British or French who sought to maintain trade with the southern states. The Confederate government only had about eleven ships of its own that were employed in the blockade-running effort. Among the most famous blockade runners was the CSS Robert E. Lee a Scottish built iron-hulled, steamer which was eventually captured by Union forces in 1863 and the privately owned SS Syren which made a record of 33 successful runs through the Union blockade. The blockade runners had a specific function in the handling of cargoes headed for the Confederacy. Purchases of supplies made in England were first shipped to Nassau in the bottoms of British vessels where the cargoes would be transferred to blockade runners, ships of lighter draft and greater speed. From Nassau they would make their way to Wilmington, Charleston and

General Thomas had gotten the word that the Rebels were there, so he drove his army down to the Cumberland River to get the Rebels out of there with such little notice. The Confederates had fired first and there General Zollicoffer had died right after, because one of

They were so ill equipped that they had to use small river boats before they could sail out to sea. The first ship that the South made was the Ironclad or Virginia as they named it. The ship itself started off as an old river steamer. Then the Confederates found it, fixed it, and reinforced it with heavy and solid iron plates. When the Union cut off Southern trading, they released their Ironclad on the blockade. It destroyed two ships and managed to get one of the ships to retreat. But the Union counteracted with their own Ironclad named the Monitor. The battle had no winner because neither ship could damage the other. They both gave up but the Union still had their blockade over Southern ports. The Confederacy was angered by this and lost their trading route with Europe. But later in the war they started to increase their navy by moving some army troops to the

President Lincoln, who believed that blacks should be free, led the north. They called themselves the Union. Jefferson Davis, who did not want slavery eradicated, led the south. They called themselves the Confederacy. At the start, the Confederacy took a defensive stand by state secession and asking independence from the Union. It was only when the Union refused

Part Three Introduction This introduction gives you a preview of the authors’ answers to certain key questions about the causes and consequences of the nation’s “awesome trial by fire,” the Civil War. Look at this section and list three major questions you think the authors will be addressing in the next seven chapters.

Thesis: The pressure of abolitionists and radical republicans lead to an increase in Lincoln’s support of the slaves; Lincoln’s support acted as a catalyst towards African Americans enlisting in the military.

Slavery did play an important role in the Civil War, but it was not what the war was originally based on. James M. McPherson explains in his book, “What They Fought For” the reasons why the Union and Confederacy started the Civil War. This book review will analyze the author’s purpose, his main argument, the evidence used, whether the book succeeded in its goals, and whether I would recommend this book or not.

During the Civil War nearly 3.6 million men served in the army of both sides while only 137,500 served for either Navy(Veit). The Yankees and the rebels both were unprepared for Naval warfare at the beginning of the war. The North still had many shipyards and materials available compared to the South’s few. It took years for the two to build up ironclads and battleships capable of battling on the high seas, rivers or bays. The Union made a blockade that they hoped would prevent the Confederates from exporting their goods. However the South designed ships known as blockade runners which were swift and quick ships made to import and export goods in the South. While the Union Navy also made acts seizing bays and ports while traveling miles upstreams.

crucial role not only in winning the Civil War but in defining the war’s consequences” (Foner,

A secondary driving force of southern secession was the belief that the southern states and citizens needed to protect themselves, and their way of life, from Abraham Lincoln’s administration and the implications that it

When people hear Alabama they probably think about football and the South, however, what many people don’t realize is that Alabama is made up of a vast array of geologic properties and has a lot to offer Geologists. Rock formations date back from 2.5 billion years old to 1,800 years old and vary in type from sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic (Tew. Ebersole, 2013). Alabama also consists of piedmonts, fossils, fossil fuels, and waterways. If you travel from the Southwest corner of the state up to the Northeast corner of the state you will come across many different rocks and landforms. Alabama is composed of about two-hundred various minerals and was ranked twentieth in the nation for having valuable minerals (Lewis, 2012). Alabama consists