The Importance Of The Stones River National Battlefield

The topic of my visitation paper will be the Petersburg battlefield. I plan on taking a Saturday off and driving to the Petersburg battlefield. Petersburg, Virginia was an important transportation center for the confederate army. General Ulysses S. Grant knew that if he were to control Petersburg than he would greatly damage the confederate force’s resources. This battle included 108,000 soldiers, 62,000 union and 42,000 confederate. It would cause 70,000 casualties in total. After what turned out to be the longest siege in American warfare, about nine and a half months, General Grant and his army would emerge victorious from this battle. The capturing of Petersburg cut off the supply lines ensuring the fall of Richmond on April 3, 1865, signaling

“Many historians consider the Battle of King's Mountain on October 7, 1780 to be the turning point in America's War for Independence.” (hankla)

Friendship. What is friendship? Wikipedia defines friendship as “a relationship of mutual affection between two or more people. Friendship is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association.”, which is exactly what I think is friendship. I know most of my friends for many, many years and throughout these years we had fights and good moments and this is what forms this strong “interpersonal bond” also known as friendship. In our novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Henry and his friends faces different challenges throughout the story which strengthens their ties. In Jamie Ford’s novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Ford communicates the theme that friendship is needed especially during difficult times through the character’s actions in the books.

and consisted of 16,500 IX Corps Union soldiers and approximately 9,500 Confederate soldiers.1 Ambrose E. Burnside lead the IX Corps soldiers but

The people fighting in this war included the Confederates and the Union, like most battles during the U.S. Civil War. The battle took place around 10 miles northeast of Richmond, Virginia. Richmond is the Confederates capital so this area was somewhat familiar to them, which is a benefit.

Have you heard of The Battle of King’s Mountain? This small battle is considered by many “the turning point in the American Revolution”. This battle has many causes, leaders, events, and effects that make it an important and significant.

The trail of tears occurred between 1838-1839 in which the United states forced native americans to move from their lands and relocate to the west of the Mississippi river ( which is modern day Oklahoma) The indians that migrated faced many adversities along the way such as: hunger,cholera, cold, starvation and disease during that forced march to Oklahoma. Due to this removal 4,000 out of 15,000 cherokees died on this lengthy march. The cherokees should have been permitted to stay because : it was part of their identity/ culture , they had signed treaties to maintain their land, and they were willing to become citizens and be resistant. To begin cherokees should have been permitted to stay because it was part of their identity/

The Battle of Bunker Hill is one of the first battles of the American Revolution,it is after the battles of Lexington and concord about two months.(Brown 2)Although commonly referred to as the Battle of Bunker Hill, most of the fighting occurred on nearby Breed’s Hill,which is in Charlestown, Massachusetts.(McGill 1)The battle is on June 17,1775.The British wanted to extend their control outside the limits of Boston.(Grayson 40)After three attack,Americans fight hard but lose.(Brown 3)

to the British Army, that the Americans had no intentions on collapsing quickly in the oncoming war. The will and fight by the Americans against the British during the Battle of Bunker Hill was expressed throughout the process of before and after the battle. Even though the Americans were not well equipped or prepared,

The Battle at Bunker Hill had many events leading up to, and causing the event. The first of these was the Battle at Lexington and Concord which ultimately slowed the British down and keeping them inside Boston by Minute Men. Then Fort Ticonderoga was captured by Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys. These two events were the start of the tensions between Great Britain and the Colonies. Later this tension became physical and appearing on the battle field. The Colonies decided they needed to talk about it, so the Second Continental Congress took place, it was here that it was decided that the Colonies would try and separate from their Mother Country, so the Continental Army was formed the Congress came to a conclusion “All voted in favor and Washington became the new Commander-in-Chief” (Yost, 2011, p. 2). The Continental Army’s first mission was to fortify Breed’s Hill and defend it from the British coming from Boston, which Breed’s Hill and Bunker Hill overlooked. The British wanted these positions in order to completely fortify Boston and drive all the Patriots out of the area.

In a recent course of events, the last two members of the Usher family passed away in a rather peculiar manner; “I fled aghast”, says our still terror-stricken source who was at the scene. According to the only eyewitness, who wishes to remain anonymous, Roderick Usher, a shut-in, had been suffering from hypersensitivity and anxiety for a while. His sister, Madeline Usher, suffered from catalepsy. However, these diseases did not directly cause their deaths or the mysterious disappearance of their house.

Tennessee is known for having quite a few battles take place on its soil. One of them being a battle called Battle of Stones River. The battle took place in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and only lasted three days, it started on December 31 and ended on January 2, 1863. I chose to go see this battle site because it was really close to where I live so I thought it would be really interesting. I prepared myself by reading some articles and I also looked at some pictures just to give myself an idea of what happened.

This paper will examine the British and American Southern Loyalist defeat in the Battle of Kings Mountain and discuss the assumptions the British made including loyalist support, logistic support, and terrain advantage.

Tecumseh’s biggest concerns were that his people would not live according to the Prophet which was casting off all elements of the Euro-American society. He believed that his people would turn to alcohol, firearms, and trade goods set out by English ways, which was what the Prophet said, would be detrimental to their ways. No matter what, Tecumseh was going to make sure the Indian way of life would continue forever. He led a revolution of young men who thought the leadership structure needed to be looked over again in order to survive. They fought to make sure The Indians East of the Mississippi to keep control over their home land. Tecumseh tried to visit neighboring tribes to form an alliance to protect the lands held by the Natives. He was successful in the way the Southern tribes would accept the alliance, but unsuccessful with others when some refused to join the reliance, such as the Iroquois tribe.

Following the war in a loose chronological order, the main turning points of the American Revolution began as the war itself began. Lexington and Concord, while not being “turning points” per say, were the kick-off. What followed was the erroneously name “Battle of Bunker Hill”.