The Gettysburg Address: A Prodigy

Johnny Tremain Paper By: Jules Woodward When Johnny Tremain was written in 1943, thousands of U.S. servicemen and women had already died in World War II, and unfortunately thousands more would die by the time the war ended in 1945. If the book was published in the middle of World War II, when the United States and Great Britain were allies, why would Esther Forbes release a book about the American Revolution when America and Great Britain were at a disagreement and eventually were at war? I think there are multiple reasons why she could have done this, but the prominent one to me is that one of the messages I saw in this book, was a thought of “Instead of hating Great Britain, remember that we wouldn’t be who we are today without them, even if we did have to break away from them.” Johnny Tremain is a reminder about how close the U.S and U.K really are. Therefore, Forbes makes it clear that England is not the real enemy—the real enemy I saw is any government that threatens the liberty of it’s people, or just doesn’t stand up for them. Forbes wrote Johnny Tremain, just after Pearl Harbor was attacked.

She was more effective as a threat than a reality. The colorful Earl Van Dorn, with his reputation tarnished by defeats at Pea Ridge and Corinth and recurrent charges of drunkenness and debauchery, accepted a descent from corps command to lead the cavalry raid against the Union depot at Holly Springs. Van Dorn found his niche as a cavalry raider. His three small brigades, about 3,500 men, rode 500 miles in two weeks, surprised and routed the defenders of Holly Springs, captured and paroled 1,500 Federal troops, plundered warehouses, cut telegraph lines, and tore up vital railroad tracks. After putting the torch to those supplies they could not carry off, the Confederates withdrew to their own lines with impunity.

The long walk of the Navajo’s was the forced relocation of the Navajo nation in 1863 to 64. The reason for the forced relocation was to the deterioration of U.S. Native relations in the west as well as the continuing expansion into the west. More than 200 Navajos died in the march from exposure, starvation, and disease. The march was led by U.S. Army Cpt.

Thousands of prisoners died on the forced "death march" as a result of the freezing weather, weak health and starvation. Around 3,000 sick prisoners who had been left behind in the camp, among them doctors and medical assistants, were liberated by Soviet and Polish troops on 22nd and 23rd April 1945. (Sachsenhausen memorial and museum site) 3.3 Soviet Special Camp

Valley Forge was a camping site where many Continental men were staying. 2,000 died at the Brand wire Battle, then more died at the Georgetown Battle. 11,000 troops moved into Valley Forge and died from camp

In 1863 there was a battle, the battle of Gettysburg. It was a civil war that lasted for three days and more than 50,000 people died. So Abraham Lincoln’s speech was actually to honor the fallen soldiers and to remind the people that they were fighting for

My intention with this essay is to give a wider understanding on why the speech happened and just what impact it has had on the country. So what was the events leading up to the Speech held that morning in November 1963? In the year 1860, the republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office as the president of the United States. The northerner had been a loud voice against the slavery that took place (mostly) in the south and with him winning the election, there was a lot of opposition from slavery-advocates. Lincoln was against slavery and with the possibility of his end-goal being the abolishment of slavery seven states where already done leaving the union before Lincoln had taken his place in the Oval Office.

The number of military and civilian casualties in World War One was over thirty seven million,over sixteen million deaths and twenty million wounded. Many soldiers were not themselves after this incident. The terrifying scenes a soldier experiences on the front will probably follow him throughout his life, if he manages to survive the war . The two poems are both written by war poets from the First World war.‘Attack’ written by Siegfried Sassoon. ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ written by Wilfred Owen.

In World War II over 60 million or 3% of the earth’s population lost their lives. Russia made up most of these casualties and over 85% of the deaths in Russia were the deaths of prisoners of war. In the anti-war novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, the true horrors that this war possessed are exposed to the world through the eyes of a damaged soldier. This soldier experienced the front lines of war with his fellow soldiers and also being hidden behind bars in foreign countries. The terrors that war brings echo through the reader’s mind as the soldier bounces back and forth between his war life and normal life.

Michael Holtzapfel, son of Frau Holtzapfel, experiences a lot of guilt. He served in the German Army and fought in the Battle of Stalingrad alongside his brother, Robert. Within battle, Michael hurts his hand, and Robert severely injures his legs by getting them blown off. Robert is taken to a makeshift hospital, where Michael watches him die. “I spent three days of that week sitting with him before he died…” (Zusak 467).

Chaos reigned supreme in the battle as 26,000 men died in the period of three days. 45 miles out from Richmond Grant and Lee encountered each other again at the battle of Spotsylvania. Lee’s troops dug in while Grant and federal troops attempted to flank them. The battle led to hand to hand combat and added 17,000 men to the death toll. After the skirmishes in North Anna came the last battle of Grant’s campaign.

There were 62,000 soldiers and 14,000 casualties for the Union and 50,000 soldiers and 8,000 casualties for the confederate. When massed confederate artillery devastated a union assault by fitz John porter 's command, long streets wing of 28,000 men counterattacked in the largest simultaneous mass assault of the war.The confederates may have had less soldiers but they won the Battle of Second Bull

Andersonville was built in April of 1864 . The Confederacy made Andersonville to hold captured Union soldiers because of better security and more supplied food. Andersonville is known as the South’s largest confederate military prison . The prison , after 14 months , had confined 45,000 soldiers with 400 more coming each day. Out of those 45,000 soldiers , 13,000 died from disease , poor living conditions , starvation , overcrowding , or exposure to harsh weather conditions.

The battle of Stones River is indeed one of the most casualty producing battles. Every single soldier who died was following the leaders in command. The Confederate States were fighting for their own ideology, and so did the soldiers in the Union. One of the leaders in this battle was General W.S Rosecrans, born on September 16, 1819 in Delaware County, Ohio. Rosecrans early years were rough due to the limited financial resources from his parents.

The Battle/Siege of Vicksburg The Battle of Vicksburg was one of the most crucial points in the Civil War. It helped Eradicate the Rebels/Confederacy once and for all. The Civil War was fought for over 4 years and it lasted from 1861-1865. It was one of the most horrific wars the world has ever known and witnessed. The Civil war was fought over the topic of slavery and the issues it presented, and the injustifications of slavery.