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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Gettysburg"”.
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The Legacy of the Gettysburg Address, 1863-1965
My project examines the legacy of the Gettysburg Address from 1863 to 1965. After an introduction and a chapter setting the stage, each succeeding chapter surveys the meaning of the Gettysburg Address at key moments: the initial reception of the speech in 1863; its status during the semi-centennial …
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Virginians' Responses to the Gettysburg Address, 1863-1963
… what Civil War-era Southerners thought of the Gettysburg Address. This work is confined to Virginia not because that state is representative of the Confederacy, but because Southern reporting on the Address was wholly shaped by the Richmond papers. The first two chapters of this thesis reveal …
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The Battle of Gettysburg and the Response of the Press
… newspaper reactions toward the Battle of Gettysburg in the months of July, August, and September 1863, and, accordingly, seeks to better understand the battle's immediate interpretation, and perhaps significance, according to the peoples' voice: the press. The newspaper responses assessed …
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Confederate Brig. Gen. B.H. Robertson and the 1863 Gettysburg campaign
Beverly Holcombe Robertson was a military commander around whose Civil War career controversy always seemed to swirl. Robertson was born June 5, 1827, to Dr. William H. and Martha (Holcombe) Robertson at the family plantation, "The Oaks," in Amelia County, Virginia. With the exception of the fact …
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Home range, habitat use, behavior, and morphology of the Gettysburg vultures
… Planned vegetation and road changes on Gettysburg National Military Park could affect the populations. Residential development outside the Park has had and will continue to have detrimental impacts on nesting habitat.
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The Union Army had something to do with it: General Lee's plan at Gettysburg and why it failed
… General Robert E. Lee’s plan for the battle of Gettysburg actually was, and why he fought the battle the way he did, based on a reexamination of extensive commentaries left by the participants in the battle.</p> <p>General Lee believed that the Confederacy could not outlast the Union but had to …
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Financial Aspects of the American Civil War: War News, Price Risk, and the Processing of Information
… September 1864 despite Confederate defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July 1863. Offsetting adverse war news were movements in the price of the cotton collateral of the war bonds.
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The Twenty-sixth Regiment North Carolina troops, CSA
… high, and low, point came at the battle of Gettysburg. During the fighting on the first and third days, it suffered 734 casualties. This was the highest loss by any regiment during the Civil War. The unit rebounded from the losses at Gettysburg, only to lose heavily again at Bristoe Station. …
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What the Earth Remembers: Landscape and Materiality in the work of Sally Mann, Mark Bradford, and Tacita Dean
… Mark Bradford’s iconoclastic paintings after the Gettysburg Cyclorama, and Tacita Dean’s film of the Great Salt Lake. I contend that these contemporary works of art are capacious in their temporal and narrative reach, holding multifaceted histories of America, including those of environment, war, …
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The 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.
… 2nd Manassas, Seven Day's battles, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, Seige of Richmond and Petersburg and the retreat to Appomattox.
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Colonel Thomas T. Munford and the last cavalry operations of the Civil War in Virginia
… of First and Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg and Five Forks, Munford lacked only the official approval of the Confederate Congress to receive his commission as a Brigadier General. The war ended before the Congress could grant his rank. Munford's account of the battle of Five Forks …
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The Eighteenth North Carolina Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.
… Jackson in the woods near Chancellorsville. At Gettysburg, the 18th North Carolina assaulted the Union center with the rest of the ill-fated soldiers in Pickett’s Charge. The regiment struggled with the army against Grant in the long campaign that culminated in the surrender of the Army of …
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The 9th Virginia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.
… the regiment participated in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg and the flow of events changed. The Confederacy began its painful decline. Armistead was killed and the 9th Virginia suffered tremendous casualties. Yet the unit established a positive place for itself in military history.
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Communicating Vision : a Linguistic Analysis of Leadership Speeches
… in the field of political discourse—Lincoln‘s Gettysburg Address, Churchill‘s ―We Shall Fight on the Beaches,‖ Kennedy‘s inaugural, and Martin Luther King Jr.‘s ―I Have a Dream‖—to discover how these leaders were able to utilize the rich resources of language to communicate their visions in …
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"Is This Park to Memorialize Confederate Valor and History or Not?": Sectionalist Civil War Memory in the History of Manassas National Battlefield Park, 1861-2011
… War sites—Chickamauga-Chattanooga, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Shiloh National Parks. By examining the history of Manassas National Battlefield Park in Manassas, Virginia—a National Park Service site created after the turn of the twentieth century and one that preserves two …
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Brigadier General James Dearing, C.S.A
… artillery. Impressed by Dearing's ability at Gettysburg, Pickett transferred him to the cavalry and recommended his promotion to lieutenant colonel. In April, 1864, Dearing’s cavalry overwhelmed the Federals at Plymouth, North Carolina, earning Dearing a promotion to brigadier general. The …
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The 11th Virginia Infantry Regiment, C. S. A
… Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Gettysburg, Plymouth, Drewry's Bluff, Cold Harbor, Bermuda Hundred, Five Forks and Sayler's Creek. Even in battle, the emphasis remains on the Regiment. Success or failure is measured by how the men felt they had performed, rather than whether or …
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Historic preservation: a study in local public administration
… Lynchburg, Virginia; Cobb County, Georgia; and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. These case studies are examined through an ecological perspective. Within the context of this study, boards of historic architectural review are very much a part of the urban/town/county governance model. They are highly …
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Maneuver as a response to technological innovation: Sherman's Georgia campaign of 1864
… Shiloh, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Cold Harbor. Where frontal assaults succeeded, the costs in soldiers’ lives were staggering. As casualties mounted astronomically, Civil War commanders must have realized that something was wrong on the battlefield. Yet, these …
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Understanding Attitudes and Perceptions For Civil War Battlefield, Interpretive Images
… Park, Antietam National Battlefield, and Gettysburg National Military Park. For this study, the Content Identifying Method (CIM) and eye-tracking technology were used in understanding visitors\' preferences. The results indicate that visitors at historic battlefields prefer images that …