HIS 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Union Army Balloon Corps, Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation
27 Apr 2019
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04/18/19: the civil war: a second american founding, union general ulysses s. grant, confederate general robert e. lee. It was not uncommon that brother fought against brother when families split down the middle: there were multiple theatres it was fought in, the north won. Scorched earth policy: part of his atlantic campaign, to pull the rug out from under the south. Spied on the confederates: really big cannons, double-barreled cannons, union"s moving battery, quaker cannon, like a primitive tank, actually a log used to make it look like they had more artillery than they actually did. Some quakers actually participated in the war in various capacities: gatling gun, precursor to modern machine gun. Now he belongs to the ages. : andrew johnson became president, fun fact: robert e. lee thought confederate monuments were a bad idea because they glorified the. John wilkes booth shot lincoln who died the next day.
