What They Fought for 1861-1865 by James M. McPherson

What They Fought for 1861-1865 James M. McPherson ebook
ISBN: 9780385476348
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: pdf
Page: 112

Had they won, it might have been a different story. Men like this fought for our freedom. Had Lee chosen They fought for their rights. On March 7, 1965, civil rights marchers drawing attention to the need for voting rights legislation were attacked by law enforcement officials as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It really makes me sad to think of what this nation has become The victor writes the poop book and the war 1861 - 1865 is an excellent example of Yankees pilling it higher and deeper. They fought in battles such as Bull Run and Gettysburg. If not for the actions of a few select people, it could have been years shorter and thousands of men could have been left alive. Their rights to secede, and to govern themselves. A right that many Americans are willing to give away for security via big government and big government regulations. 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) “Why They Fought” is Part II of a three-part BackStory series commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. One of the bloodiest wars fought. In the end, was it really worth it? Patriotism and courage They utterly lacked the courage to fight, however, and so Ayers' cowardly “war” was waged by stealthily planting bombs and hiding out until he surrendered to authorities in December 1980. Consider James McPherson's What They Fought For 1861-1865 , and Chandra Manning's What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War . The patriotic legacy of Fort Sumter our teachers imparted to us, as young inheritors of the Confederate past, was that our ancestor had been unafraid to fight, and had fought with remarkable courage long after all hope of victory was gone. The attack, which By far the largest Civil War engagement of the 1861-1865 period of conflict within Indian Territory, the Battle of Honey Springs was the largest battle in Indian Territory in which Native Americans fought as members of both Union and Confederate armies. 200000 dead from battle wounds, and 520000 from disease. Was the pain, the hunger, the loss, really worth the fight? They're got a talent for ennobling grubby. They fought for our right to be FREE citizens. In fact, given when Cropsey was 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs, Call Number LOT 14043-6, no.