Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War In the spring of 1861, tens of thousands of young men formed military companies and offered to fight for their country. Near the end of the Civil War, nearly half of the adult male population of the North and a stagge...
Breaking away from Virginia during the Civil War, Union loyalists would form a new state called West Virginia, officially admitted to the Union in June 1863. Like other border states, its population had mixed loyalties. Jefferson Davis by C.E. Emery, about 1888 Organization of the Confederacy ...
The Confederacy was prepared to prosecute a war against the Union despite the great disparity in population and resources that existed between the two belligerents. The 11 Confederate states had a white population of about 5.5 million. In addition, there were about 3.5 million enslaved people and ...
In the states of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, Confederate Memorial Day is a state holiday. Therefore, it is a day off to the general population in these states. What is closed or open on Confederate Memorial Day? In all the states where Confederate Memorial Day is a ...
The red brick columned home of Tennent and Caroline Lomax on Court Street attested to its owners' social standing. Most Montgomerians lived in more modest cottages that were sometimes brick but were more often clapboard.On the city's periphery, the free black population resided. There was a...
that made possible the agricultural economy of the South. During the reign of “King Cotton” (the early to mid-1800s) about one-third of the Southern population consisted of enslaved Black people. Although agriculture remained a significant part of the economy of the North, the Northern indust...
The draft created a deficit in civilian manpower to police the slave population. States created separate courts to try slaves because of elevated disobedience levels. Paranoia rose, and some hoped to remedy it through conscripting slaves into military service. There was also a severe shortage of ...
Talking About My Generation: Intergenerational Learning, a Response to the Challenges Facing Higher Education Policy and Reforms Today There are many implications for higher education at global level to address the increase of our ageing population as a valuable contribution to teaching, l... G ...
All countries have periods in their history where in hindsight actions they have taken have not been the correct one. My own country, England, has had its fair share of history where we have conquered other countries and forced our way of living on to the local population. I am still, ho...
. For literature on the guerrilla war in Arkansas and Missouri, see Michael Fellman, "At the Nihilist Edge: Reflections on Guerrilla Warfare during the American Civil War," in On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, –, ed. Steg Frster and ...