In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.New York lawyer and diarist George Templeton Strong.We are only an aggregate of states, ready to fall apart at the first serious shock. The bird of our country is a debilitated chicken, disguised in eagle feathers.It was the beginning of the Confederate Army.The militia system in the South, which had been a joke before this, before then, becomes a viable instrument, as the Southern militias begin to take a true form and the South begins to worry about Northerners agitating the Blacks to murder them in their beds. Failure in everything in life, except he becomes the single most-important factor, in my opinion, in bringing on the War. John Brown, John Brown.very important person in history.I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.
We are divorced because we have hated each other so.")
"No day ever dawns for the slave," a freed black man wrote, "nor is it looked for.What began as a bitter dispute over Union and State's Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.And over six hundred thousand men, two percent of the population, died in it. More than three million Americans fought in it. Albans, Vermont and Fernandina on the Florida Coast. The Civil War was fought in ten thousand places, from Valverde, New Mexico and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St.And Wilmer McLean could rightfully say, "The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor." And it was there in his living room, three and a half years later, that Lee surrendered to Grant. Now McLean moved his family away from Manassas, far south and west of Richmond, out of harm's way, he prayed, to a dusty little crossroads' called Appomattox Court House. Two great armies were converging on his farm and what would be the first major battle of the Civil War, Bull Run, or Manassas as the Confederates called it, would soon rage across the aging Virginian's farm: a Union shell going so far as to explode in the summer kitchen. By the summer of 1861, Wilmer McLean had had enough.In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire. We have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. Crane and Terry W.We have shared the incommunicable experience of war. Bama Dew – The Story of Alabama Moonshine.Alabama's Famous, Legendary & Notorious.Alabama Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements.History of Clarke County by John Simpson Graham.HISTORY OF ALABAMA by Albert James Pickett.
Civil War Sites in Alabama Alabama Civil War Battlefield Map The overall population remained the same-the growth that might have been expected neutralized by death and emigration. The livestock supply shrank too, as the number of horses fell from 127,000 to 80,000, and mules 111,000 to 76.000. With cotton prices low, the value of farms shrank, from $176 million in 1860 to only $64 million in 1870. Patton estimated that 20,000 veterans had returned home permanently disabled, and there were 20,000 widows and 60,000 orphans. Nearly all the white men served, some 122,000 he said, of whom 35,000 died in the war and another 30,000 were seriously disabled. Parsons in July 1861 made a preliminary estimate of losses.
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Alabama Civil War Sites Map Civil War in AlabamaĪlabama soldiers fought in hundreds of battles the state’s losses at Gettysburg were 1,750 dead plus even more captured or wounded the famed “Alabama Brigade” took 781 casualties.
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