Maryland Campaign

The following case study will be about the Battle of Antietam that took place on September 17, 1862 in Sharpsburg, Maryland along the Antietam Creek. Known as “…the bloodiest single day in American History,” by the end of the day there would be approximately twenty-three thousand casualties of which forty-five hundred to six thousand were dead. The first topic of discussion will be on the history leading up to the morning of the seventeenth in order to establish the mindset of the commanders on

the outcome of the battle. During September 9th of 1862 Confederate forces led by Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson commanded three divisions with the goal of seizing Harpers Ferry. At the time Harpers Ferry was a Union occupied town bordering Maryland and Virginia. For the Union front this was a main arsenal holding area that provided support to other forces. For the Confederates, they saw it as a major supply line allowing logistics to travel down south or north through the use of rail road systems

said “ The greatest of all civil war campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point in our nation's history.”(Gettysburg) And that's exactly what Gettysburg

Childhood Obesity: A Growing Concern in Langley Park, Maryland Joan Nwosu Bowie State University Introduction Childhood obesity has become a growing health concerns in the heart of American population. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] (2015) estimates that 1 in 3 American children aged 6 – 11 years old were either overweight or obese in 2013 which is a staggering increase from 7 percent in 1980 to 18% to date. It is scary to know that childhood obesity is one of

Waves of Jewish Migration to Maryland Introduction: The state of Maryland is current home to over 235,000 self-identified Jewish residents, making up over 4% of the total state population (JDB, 159). Today, Jewish Marylanders live in an open, welcoming environment, but this was not always the case. When the first Jewish settlers landed in St. Mary’s City, political equality was only a hope for the distant future. The first wave of Jewish migration to Maryland was marked by a trend of percolation

battlefield(Battle of Antietam 1). This battle came after a brutal campaign by the South who had just won The 2nd Battle of Bull Run as well as The Seven Days Battle. Lee’s unprecedented plan to start invading the North was seen as unorthodox because all the South needed to do was survive until the citizen’s of the North got upset with the war and lost the will to fight. Lee’s plan to invade the North was to invade the Maryland which remained loyal to the union and get a crushing blow in union territory

Shore farmers and billions for industries located by the bay. This decision angered many environmental supporters. Allison Prost, the Maryland Executive Director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation said, “This is a sad day in the long fight to make Maryland waters clean enough for swimming and fishing” (www.delmarvannow.com). During Hogan’s political campaign, it appeared that the phosphorous pollution regulation was going to stay in place, which required Shore farmers to limit the phosphorous

Chesapeake Bay, which took place in the states of Virginia and Maryland. Britain had several goals in their Chesapeake Bay Campaign; the most important was to create a diversion that would relieve pressure on their forces fighting in the Northeast. Controlling the Chesapeake Bay not only gave Britain the advantage of the many small towns situated along the bays coastline, but the important major cities of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland. An attack on Washington D.C. would deliver a serious blow

facts and findings on research she completed. Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania. She graduated magna cum laude (with honors) from Pennsylvania College for Women in 1929. Carson was also involved at the University of Maryland when teaching zoology and spent her summers at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Carson then completed her master’s degree at John Hopkins in zoology in 1932 of June. Upon graduating, Carson began working at the U.S

The book Silent Spring is about how a brave woman took on the chemical industry and raised questions about nature and humankind’s impact on it. Although books will probably always be less celebrated than wars, marches, riots, or stormy political campaigns, books have at times been more powerful than all of those. Rachel Carson examining a specimen Carson, a renowned nature author and a former marine biologist