I picture myself in the battle called the antietam battle and we was facing the gettysburg i figure that it was going to be a great and tough one but we the antietam out number them we played smart, we dropped them one by one silently headshots , they didn’t know why there man was leaving so quickly they stopped and said wait a minute why our group is getting small ? One of the leaders said. I was a sniper man taking them out the good thing is they didn’t hear any gunshots all they saw was there man lying on the ground with blood on their skin one of their men was down the war lasted for a couple of weeks this is why the war didn’t last long like the other war did. 1(we had more men than they did) 2. Our beloved men was very silently. These was some of our goal and we accomplished another goal of ours was try not to get hit but i was afraid that this was one was not the perfect one . The war actually started for real we was called out by the …show more content…
That is an order yes sir, we will have the rest to keep firing i said in a aggressive voice move, move it the squad stay back fighting while me and the rest of the team was after there captain. There stupid captain was on the ground crawling trying to escape. HE was trying to explain before he take this bullet in his thick skull. Ok! The captain said let me explain we was taking revenge on you guys because you, you gu. Then he was dead i didn’t get the chance to blast him anymore he took his last breathe we won the battle that day his pity men surrender ok just don’t kill us we surrender said the leader you guys won you have us now . 4 years past we made them prisoners for the rest of their lives while we our fellow brotherens celebrated . I’am the union soldier intill i
It was a soldier’s death, and just what he would have
He further stated that some of the other soldiers attempted to take the nearby hills, but were ultimately unsuccessful (82). During the afternoon, Rhodes’ Regiment was ordered to guard a battery, which the Company did not find pleasant as they had to stand around and get shot at by enemy shells. The fighting went on until nightfall, where both sides took a brief respite. The medics attempted to go onto the battlefield and help the wounded, but the Rebels would shoot at them, so they had to leave the wounded to suffer. Two days later, the battle ended in a Union loss and the men were forced to retreat across the Rappahannock River.
On September 17, 1862, we fought at the battle of Antietam, and one of our officers was killed. At the battle of Fredericksburg, which was December 11 to 15, 1862, and the battle of Chancellorsville, which was April 30 to May 6, 1863, we were present but weren’t part of the actual fighting.
Garrett Reppond Michael Shaara The Killer Angels Ballantine Books, New York July 1975 This paper is a review of Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels, which is a historically correct novel that has some fictional dialog. A lot of the dialog is fictional, but it is mostly backed with historically correct information and events going on during the time. This story is about the events and discussion of the strategy to be used by the Confederate and Union forces leading up and during the Battle of Gettysburg. This review will discuss two topics raised by Michael Shaara in the novel; the ongoing conflict between which fighting style and strategies should be used by the Confederate army, and the other is the state of mind of the Confederate and Union
That is what the soldiers did, on both Union and Confederates sides. On page 126, the book states “If that happened the day would flicker out in a humiliating defeat. But not without one last bitter fight. " This sentence described the Confederate’s fighting words as they give their all for one last duel, even if it costs them their lives.
The soldiers beat us with the iron sticks from their guns…” and “...While two or three others stuck the long knives they put on the ends of their guns into my husband. I saw the blood spurt out, and then saw him no more… Many of the young men were killed the same way, and many babies thrown into the grass to die..”
Witness/Narrative: Robert E. Lee Hi there, I’m Robert E. Lee. You might know me by reading your history books in school. I was the General of the Northern Virginia army for The Confederates. As you may know the Union won the war and I’m pretty sure you’ve heard the story of the Civil War through the Union’s eyes
When we were told that the war started, I was right at the border. Of course, we were not sure whether we would survive or not. We knew we had to fight for real. We believed in Communist ideas. We had it with our mother’s milk.
“He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart. He thought there never would be again. Liberated a day earlier by American soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw. And even if he lives to be a very old man, he will always be grateful to them for that rage, and also for their compassion. Though he did not understand their language, their eyes told him what he needed to know—that they, too, would remember, and bear witness.”
Lincoln called for 500,000 troops on both sides settled for a long battle. Abraham surprised a lot of people by proving to be a more than a capable wartime leader. He learned quickly about strategy and tactics in the early years of the Civil War, and choosing the best commanders. General George McClellan continually frustrated Lincoln with his unwillingness to advance, and when McClellan failed to see Robert Lee’s retreating Confederate Army in the outcome of the Union victory at Antietam in September 1862. Antietam is a creek of north Maryland emptying into the Potomac
I have witnessed a classmate of mine being teased whenever she spoke up about anything in class. She could say a comment or an answer and people would smirk. I am not saying I am completely innocent myself because at times I would do the same. Then I realized it was a continuation and not just playing around anymore and that her feelings were getting hurt. When I realized that I started calling people out on it.
This statement was proved to be true after the battle, in which many key events turned the tide of the battle and the whole war. Early morning on July 1st, General Heth attacked Gettysburg, tempted by news that there were stocks of greatly needed shoes. He expected a few militiamen, but instead ran into three thousand dismounted cavalry from John Buford’s division (Kagan and Hyslop 143). This proved fatal for the Confederates, because Gettysburg was not a very strategic spot. If Heth’s men had not engaged in battle, the end of the war could have been very different, because Gettysburg would never have happened.
Eventually, Chief Joseph gave up and rode into the Union camp and told Colonel Nelson A Miles, “I am tired,’ he said. ‘My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.’ The old men are all dead…
Firstly, the Battle of Antietam was a gory Battle. The Battle of Antietam started because the south needed shoes, and some southern scouts found that the city of Antietam
In September 1862, a battle was fought in a small town in Maryland. More lives were lost than any other battle or war that the United States has ever experience before or since. This battle had no true winner but it did have consequeses that changed the course of the Civil War. In James M. McPherson’s book Crossroads of Freedom Antietam The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War, he shows how small events added up to lead to the Battle of Antietam and ultimately to the North winning the Civil War.