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The Civil War Was Not Senseless


Senseless Slaughter at The Battle of Fredericksburg

At the Battle of Fredericksburg, beautifully arrayed ranks of attacking Federals made for grand spectacle in one of the most disastrous Union attacks of the ...

Confederate General Braxton Bragg | C-SPAN.org

HIS STAMP OF APPROVAL. THAT ARMY WON ONLY ONE BATTLE, CHICKAMAUGA. LET'S NOT LOOK AT BATTLES. LET'S LOOK AT BATTLEFIELD DAYS. WERE THERE ANY ...

Years of Change & Suffering - Dartmouth Medicine Magazine

Many histories of the war are critical of the medical care that soldiers received—one historian considered it "one of the war's most dismal failures"—but a true ...

Conscientious Objectors | American Civil Liberties Union

As entry into the war seemed increasingly likely, she and other AUAM leaders made a last-ditch plea to President Wilson not to enter the war.

Was the American Civil War Inevitable? Challenges of Prevention ...

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Movie review: 'Civil War' will divide viewers based on ... - The Lantern

“Civil War” barely possesses any political or patriotic undertones; instead, it's a harsh look into the voyeurism of visual media in an age of ...

Today's Congress no match for Civil War-era brawlers | Opinion

In her research, Freeman has uncovered upward of 70 different violent altercations between members of Congress during this time, either in the ...

Making sense of the senseless war in Ukraine - Canadian Dimension

General Nathan Bedford Forrest once said that the secret of his success was that he “got there first with the most men.” It turns out that this ...

Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

Jayhawker and bushwhacker designate the principal warring parties in the Civil War's guerrilla conflict, although the names were not unique to Arkansas ...

Nationalism: Handle With Care - The American Interest

Nationalism, according to the authorized version, makes for war; war is the worst fate that can befall us; and only by blunting its instruments— ...

The Meaninglessness Is the Point - Luke Nathan Phillips

... Civil War' is not a partisan film for a partisan era—it's a meditation on war ... senseless violence—torture, summary execution ...

Abraham Lincoln and the Border States - University of Michigan

... no longer in senseless wrangling. ... In less than two months, the reckless Lyon had plunged the state into a civil war that would never be completely suppressed ...

Abraham Lincoln on Independence and the Civil War

What is now combated is the position that secession is consistent with the Constitution–is lawful and peaceful. It is not contended that there ...

John Mosby's Retaliatory War - Emerging Civil War

The Civil War was ugly by 1864. It had been an ugly, destructive war long before then, but the conflict took a decidedly dark turn in the ...

[PDF] Making Sense of a Senseless War | Semantic Scholar

... not particularly stellar, annual rate of 4 percent ... The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War.

Making Sense of a Senseless War: Readings on Sudan

Sudan's civil war is senseless but was forseeable. The prospect of street fighting in the national capital, comparable to Mogadishu in 1991 or Tripoli in 2012, ...

Howard Zinn's History Lessons - Dissent Magazine

He describes the American Revolution as a clever device to defeat “potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, ...

High Commissioner outlines 'insidious disregard for human life' in ...

... fighting a ruthless, senseless conflict. They have killed thousands ... civil war. Madame Vice-President,. Sudan has become a living ...

The Case for Posthumously Awarding André Cailloux The ...

The Civil War is the American Iliad, as essential as the Revolution to an understanding of how the country became itself. It was when the United ...

National Park Civil War Series: Life in Civil War America

The northern economy, profoundly affected if not transformed by war ... This senseless slaughter of civilians led Union General Thomas Ewing to issue Order No.