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Born in 1826, George B. McClellan served as an officer in the U.S. Army. He was also a politician who became a major general at the time of the Civil War from 1861-1865 as well as a railroad president. In 1861, he was in command of the Army of Potomac, which he organized. McClellan also served the Union Army as the general-in-chief for a short time. He was very popular among his men, but was reluctant to make strong attacks on the Confederacy, despite having an advantage due to the number of men in his army. This brought differences between him and President Abraham Lincoln[footnoteRef:1]. When the Seven Days Battle came to an end in 1862, McClellan's Peninsula Campaign fell apart. He was unable to defeat the Confederate Army of Robert E at the Battle of Antietam at a later time of the same year. His extremely cautious battle tactics got Lincoln frustrated, who in turn, decided to remove him from commanding the Army of the Potomac later in the year 1862. In 1864, he went ahead to launch a presidential campaign against Lincoln, but it failed. McClellan later served in New Jersey as the governor from 1878 t 1881. [1: George Mcclellan]
Robert E. Lee was born in 1807 and died in 1870. He was in the U.S. Army as a military officer. He also served the West Point as a commandant and the Confederate Army as a legendary general during the American Civil War (1861-65). He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia from June 1861 and led it to the end of the war. The army became very successful under his command at Second Bull Run (Mansassas), Fredericksburg and at the time of the Peninsula Campaign. The Battle of Chancellorsville was, however, where he achieved the greatest victory. He proceeded to invade the north during spring in 1863 and fought the Battle of Gettysburg, but he was defeated[footnoteRef:2]. Being almost assured of defeat at Confederate, Lee pressed on and was involved in continuous clashes in Virginia against Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1864-1865. Finally, he surrendered his army's remains in April...
Civil War Economics and Total War Total war strategies target and destroy the homes and livelihoods of civilians, from houses and farms to factories and railroads. They are never an acceptable, regardless the cause for which an army is fighting. Civilians, whether friend or enemy, should be excluded as targets, because no matter their allegiance, they have not chosen to actively take part in combat. While total war may bring an earlier
Missouri's Civil War In the early 1980's, the University of Missouri's Columbia campus was facing a bleak economic future as a poor economy and the state's tax-based appropriations system were projected to be sharply curtailed. The university's newly appointed Provost, Ron Bunn, was assigned the task of finding a solution to the looming financial disaster. When the Board of Curators and faculty gave Bunn their full support for him to single-handedly
American Civil War transformed the country's policies and culture, and its wide-ranging ramifications are still being felt to this day, offering an ideal case study in the multi-faceted phenomenon of war. Although the ostensible reasons for the war are generally clear to anyone with a grade school education in American history, assigning the outbreak of the war to any one factor unnecessarily disguises the myriad political, economic, and social forces
Current Event Due 11:55p Sunday Week 5 the Week 5 Homework 2 Assignment meets objectives: Apply a sociological perspective social world. Analyze contemporary social issues sociological imagination sociological theories concepts analyze everyday life. The Ukraine conflict has generated much controversy in recent months as a community of experts has gotten actively involved in discussing the topic and in attempting to provide solution to the crisis. Even with the fact that initial
During the mid 1960s, "highly public demonstrations" (525) became more popular and gained momentum among the community because popular and significant individuals close to the cause supported them. The power and attention these protest garnered illustrated just how serious African-Americans were in achieving their goals. The protests proved to the people that they could do more than they thought they could. They could accomplish things even though they were
War The Experience of War War has changed greatly in character from the days of knights in shining armor. The concept of a "state" rather than just a regional ruler has changed the dynamic of war. Rather than meeting on a battlefield and duking it out, two armies now willfully attack civilian targets to demoralize a population, cut off trade routes to starve a population, and, if it comes to it, invade
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