Browsing by Subject "American Civil War"
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(2023-07-18)This dissertation traces the interaction and development of the American national economy and state by examining military spending from 1835 to 1865. During these years, the United States Army engaged in three major wars: ...
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(2021-10-26)Early on the morning of February 22, 1861, the President-elect of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, left the largest hotel in the United States, the Continental Hotel in downtown Philadelphia, and rode in a private ...
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(2012-07-16)This thesis examines the methods and actions of selected Virginians who chose to adopt irregular tactics in wartime, and focuses on the reasons why they fought that way. The presence of the Cavalier image in Virginia had ...
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(2016-07-25)The American Civil War was a tumultuous period for the United States, forcing brother against brother in a battle over the secession of the Confederate States. To study the Civil War sailor, a wealth of archival information ...
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(2009-05-15)This thesis explores and provides analysis on several areas of study related to the history of the Confederate States Marine Corps that have long been neglected. It examines the military and political processes that were ...
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"The Prestige of Success": The North Carolina Campaign of 1862 and the Ascension of Ambrose Burnside (2016-04-25)Historians have roundly criticized President Abraham Lincoln’s appointment of Union General Ambrose Burnside to the command of the Army of the Potomac in the fall of 1862. Many have viewed Burnside, who subsequently suffered ...
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Despite the vast amounts of research done on the Civil War, the Department of the South, made up of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and the operations within it are relatively understudied and not well understood. ...