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Civil War: Annotated Bibliography

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Works Cited Civil War Times. Curiosities. June 2003. 42,67. Web. Ethier, Eric. Telegraph & telegraphy. The Operators. Jan. 2007. 45. Web. Fehrenbacher, Don. The Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Print. Varhola, Michael. Letters, Civil War. The Pen and Paper Network. June 2013. 42, 8. Web. Wert, Jeffry. War Photography. Civil War Photography. 2006. 45. 7. Web. Williams, Jean. Pony Express, National Historic Trail. Pony Express Bows to Telegraph Line. 2002. 13. Web.
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Anthony Ibeziako, Professor Sue Hilton, ENGL 1113, April 12, 2017. A Look in Comparison and Contrasts. The essay was written by Bruce Catton; who compares the lives and characteristics of two Civil War leaders who put an end to the civil war in a meeting.

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Drew Gilpin Faust’s, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, is an intensive study that reflects on the impact of the Civil war had on the soldiers and civilians. Faust wanted to show that, as they dealt with and mourned over the overwhelming amount of carnage, the nation and the lives of the American people were already changed forever. Although there are many other publications relating to the Civil war, she is able to successfully reflect upon the morbid topic of death in the Civil war in a new and unique way. This book shows the war in a whole different perspective by focusing less on quantifying and stating the statistics of the civil war deaths. Rather, she examines more closely on how the Civil War deaths transformed the “society, culture and politics,” and the impact it had on the lives of the Americans in the 19th century.

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One of the strongest strengths is the intricate detail used to summarize major historical events. “The authors succinctly describe the closing battles of the Civil War, the assassination, and its aftermath.” (Farrell, 2011) It is obvious that O’Reilly and Dugard took the appropriate amount of time need to adequately write this book.

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In Louis P. Masur’s article, “Diary of a New York Lawyer,” he uses George Templeton Strong ’s diary of his life to show how the Civil War was both “momentous and trivial.” I found it interesting when Strong said the “the proceedings at the secession convention look childish. He found that the issue of slavery was similar to a domestic dispute. I agree with this point that he made because the Civil War was within the same country.

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The United States Civil War is possible one of the most meaningful, bloodstained and controversial war fought in American history. Northern Americans against Southern Americans fought against one another for a variety of motives. These motives aroused from a wide range of ideologies that stirred around the states. In James M. McPherson’s What they fought for: 1861-1865, he analyzes the Union and Confederate soldier’s morale and ideological components through the letters they wrote to love ones while at war. While, John WhiteClay Chambers and G. Kurt Piehler depict Civil War soldiers through their letters detailing the agonizing battles of war in Major Problems in American Military History.

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Although the war was continuing, Brady returned back to his studio to release the first photographs of the war in 1862. He published them out of his study in New York, he titled the photographs “The Dead Of Antietam.” These images were the first images to show dead bodies, wreckage of the war, and the first to be given out to the public. The images received so much attention, that they were viewed more than any other series of images during the rest of the Civil War. An article from the New York Times, distributed in October, 1862, stated that “Mr. Brady has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of the war.

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American history is full of events that have changed the curse of its history, some more recent than others, an often overviewed war or conflict is the Mexican war, probably because it was only 13 years before of one of the most bloodshed periods and important periods of this country 's history, the Civil War; the Mexican War might have nit had as big as an impact as that of the Civil War, but nonetheless it was a period that is certainly important, we can also think that no war is ever unimportant (Shaara,10). Since the Louisiana purchase, there was a fervor for expansion among the American people, in 1845 the then independent nation of Texas was annexed by the United states (Shaara, 12). But there were several doubts about what was the real

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September 29, 1863 was a day in American history marked by climatic conflict between the United and Confederate States of America. Despite the fact that the Gettysburg Address was given just a little over a week before, the Civil War was far from over for either side. Both the New York Times and the Richmond Daily Dispatch promulgated narratives that served the purposes of both the North and South, respectively. The Civil War was a war of opposite ideologies and conflicting interests, and that is made extremely obvious by the different viewpoints used in Northern and Southern newspapers. Although the Union and Confederacy had opposing ideals they were both going through many the same problems.

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