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Who pointed out to Lincoln that by casting the was as fight against slavery European countries would be less likely to aid the south?
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What are Civil War cannonballs made of?
That all depends on the gun that was being fired, and what was loaded in it. The most basic form was shot- a solid ball. These were typically made of iron, some smaller ones made of brass. However, a solid shot used against infantry or cavalry has limited effect- it will kill or wound the few people directly in its path, but not the soldiers to the left and right. In that case, SHELL might be used rather than SHOT. The shell was a hollow iron casting, filled with a charge of gunpowder, and a fuse. It was designed to explode at the target, causing much more damage. For close range, CANISTER or GRAPESHOT would be used. In slightly different ways, they both fired dozens of smaller lead or iron balls- rather like a giant shotgun.
What was the importance of the outcome at the Battle of Shiloh for the conferderates?
In the two months prior to the Battle of Shiloh the Yankees had captured the western two-thirds of Tennessee, including Nashville. Nashville was one of the largest cities in the Confederacy and one of the few with an iron mill capable of casting cannon. The Confederates hoped to reverse this tide and start recovering west Tennessee beginning with winning the Battle of Shiloh. When the Confederates instead lost the battle these hopes were dashed.Perhaps even more important was the death of the Confederate commanding general, Albert Sidney Johnston. Johnston was one of the best generals the Confederacy had, and was the second-ranking Confederate general, just ahead of Robert E. Lee on the seniority list. The Confederate's western army never had a satisfactory commander after Johnston's death, and went on to lose most of its battles, and probably the war.
What medical problems did Union and Confederate soldiers face?
On both sides disease killed two soldiers for every one the enemy killed. Everybody was a farmer before the war, and they had never been anywhere past the county seat, and had little schooling, so, most of them had never had the usual childhood diseases, like measles, mumps and chicken pox. At the start of the war when the men were being formed into units and going off to training camps there was a period of time for each new unit of "putting them through the fevers", when these and other maladies made their appearance. By the time this was over a new regiment of one thousand men commonly had lost one-third to one-half its strength, in dead and men given medical discharges. The war was fought about fifteen years before medical men figured out that there were these things called germs that caused many diseases. During the war doctors still thought in terms of "ill humors" or "miasmas", and consequently, proper camp sanitation and anti-septic medical practices were practiced only by officers others generally regarded as over-fastidious. In those circumstances diseases like dysentery, typhoid fever and even cholera, caused by drinking water polluted with human waste, were terrifically deadly. Small pox was also a deadly killer, though it had been understood since the late 1700s how to inoculate people against it - you took a scab off of a pox sore from someone who had these disease, cut the scab up into little bits with a knife, made a little cut on the arm of the person to be "vaccinated", and inserted a bit of the scab in the cut. This produced a mild case of the disease (with any luck, only a mild case) and was enough to provide immunity. In coastal areas of the south, where there was much action, malaria and Yellow Fever, spread by mosquitos, were a threat. If wounded in battle and taken to a hospital it was a lucky soldier who survived the medical treatment. Again, doctors did not yet have any idea of germs, and went from one patient to another with bloody hands and bloody surgical instruments, creating infections where none had been before. (When President Lincoln was shot more than one doctor, eager to help, plunged a bare, unwashed finger into the hole in his head, probing for the bullet). Before the Civil War there were many types of physicians - hydropaths, naturopaths, osteopaths and so on. The War was a great boost to the primacy of the surgeons, though, who believed in "plucking it out and casting it from thee", and were enthusiastic amputators. (After the war, in 1869, the surgeons took control of the medical profession by forming the American Medical Association and having each state pass a law forbidding non-surgical practices as "the unauthorized practice of medicine" - a control by the surgeons which persists to this day). Civil War bullets were huge and heavy, and if they hit bone, the bone would splinter, and the only remedy the doctors knew was to cut off the arm or leg (for a year or two after the war, one-sixth of the entire budget of the state of Mississippi went to buy peg legs and hooks for its Confederate veterans). This was done with unwashed instruments, and in the south, due to the naval blockade preventing the importation of medical supplies, without any anesthesia (ether or chloroform were all that was known) or pain killer (morphia), other than maybe a swallow of whiskey, and a bullet to bite on. In big battles there are many reports of men passing by the makeshift hospitals and noticing the great and ever growing pile of amputated arms and legs tossed out the window by the doctors. A bullet through the body was basically untreatable, and though there are remarkable stories of survival, usually fatal. Head wounds were almost always hopeless. If a soldier lived through his turn on the table with the surgeons, he was laid in filthy straw, unchanged until five or six men had died in it, and bandaged, possibly even with clean, previously unused strips of cloth (unsterilized, of course). He might get fed, and he might get some water, and some nursing from the all male nurses, but basically if he was to live it was up to his body to fight off the infections and heal itself.
What were some of Ulysses S. Grant's Achievements?
Grant was a union civil war general and commander of the Union army. He won several battles against his arch-enemy Robert E. Lee. After he had won the civil war for the north he was voted US president for two terms.he worked in a small tannery but , preferred working with his horsesHe graduated from West Point and spent about 10 years in the army, fighting the Mexican War and stationed at posts in Missouri, California, Oregon, Detroit and New York. He then left the army and helped his father-in-law farm in Mo for awhile, sold real estate, worked in a customs house and clerked in his father's leather goods store. When the Civil War began, he got back into the army and rose rapidly in the ranks to become the supreme commander and gain national fame as the winner of the war. This fame propelled into the presidency.18th presedent, had 4 kids, was a general of the unionInteresting Facts:President Grant's real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but he didn't want the initials H.U.G. on his belongings. The S. was made up at West Point and he liked the initials U.S.He was riding his racing horse one day in downtown Washington, D.C., when a police officer gave him a ticket for speeding. The officer didn't realize that he was a president and fined him $20.First president to have both parents alive when taking office.First presidential candidate to have a female opponent.His favorite breakfast was cucumbers soaked in vinegar.On August 28, 1848, Grant married Julia Dent from St. Louis, whose family held slaves. Grant himself owned a slave named William Jones, acquired from his father-in-law. At a time when he could have desperately used the money from the sale of Jones, Grant signed a document that gave him his freedom.At the beginning of the Civil War, Grant was working in his father's leather store in Galena, Illinois. The rise from clerk to General of the Armies, to President of the United States in seven years, was an unprecedented feat of accomplishment.On casting his first vote for president in 1856, Grant, the future republican president, voted for James Buchanan, a democrat. His explanation being that "I didn't know him and voted against Fremont because I did know him."Grant's life in Galena was not as drab and poverty stricken as reported. He and his family lived in a seven-room house high on a hill in the best neighborhood in town. Julia had a servant, and did none of the housework herself.Ironically, although Grant had fifteen years in the regular military, his initial offer to serve in the Civil War was overlooked by the War Department. His letter was not found until afterthe war was over.Grant was very thin during the war, weighing only one hundred and thirty-five pounds. He was a very sparse eater. He abhorred red meat of any kind, and the sight of blood made him ill. Consequently, he insisted on his meat being cooked on the verge of being charred. He would not eat any kind of fowl, but was fond of pork and beans, fruit, and buckwheatcakes.Grant was tone deaf and could not recognize any of the light airs of the time; military music was especially annoying to him.Reticence has long been associated with Ulysses Grant. Although he was an avid listener, in the relaxed company of friends, he could actually be a raconteur.Throughout his life General Grant had a superstition of retracing his steps. Throughout the war, this superstition turned into an asset in leading troops in battle.In the heat of battle, when his staff officers were full of anxiety, Grant calmly smoked his cigar and never lost his composure. His nerves of steel were a wonder to all around him. Hecould write dispatches while shells burst around him and never flinch.Since boyhood, General Grant had an aversion to any kind of profanity, noting that it was a waste of time. No off color stories were allowed to be told in his presence.Grant did not believe in holding formal councils of war. He felt that they "divided a responsibility that would at times prevent a unity of action." He listened to the advice of his staff, and then, upon reflection, made the final decision himself. No one knew of his decision until it was put into effect.During his lifetime General Grant suffered intense migraine headaches which were sometimes reported as bouts of drunkenness.Before the Battle of Fort Donelson, Grant was a light smoker. During the battle a reporter spotted him holding an unlit cigar given him by Admiral Foote, and soon ten thousand cigars were sent to him in camp. Although giving away as many as he could, he started the habit of cigar smoking that became one of his trademarks.During the War, General Grant wrote most of his own dispatches. His style was clear and concise and no one ever had to be told twice what his wishes were.Ulysses Grant was a devoted family man and had his family with him whenever he could during the War. His oldest son Fred was with his father often. During the Battle of Black River Bridge, thirteen year old Fred was wounded when a musket ball struck him in the left thigh.On the day Lincoln was assassinated, Grant's wife Julia was stalked by John Wilkes Booth. If the general had accepted the invitation to go to Ford's Theater with the presidential party, there may have been a double tragedy. They went instead to Burlington, New Jersey, to seetheir children.Major Events While in Office:• Reconstruction• Transcontinental Railroad Completed (1869)• Black Friday Scandal involving James Fisk and Jay Gould (1869)• Fifteenth Amendment Ratified (1870)• Credit Mobilier Scandal (1872)• Panic of 1873• Whiskey Ring Scandal (1875)• Belknap Bribery Scandal (1876)• Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)States Entering Union While in Office:• Colorado (1876)•
Why the Philippines involve in World War 2?
The Japanese would have wanted the Philippines in any case, for the agricultural products and raw materials to be taken from the Philippines, because of the strategic location of the islands, and because the Japanese dream was to dominate all of east Asia through military conquests. But the immediate reason why the Philippines became involved when they did was because they were a possession of the United States in 1941. The US had taken control of the Philippines as a result of the Spanish-American War of 1898. Many people in the US were opposed to this imperialism, but the excuses given for continuing were that in the centuries of Spanish control nothing had been done to educate the people, the population was extremely diverse with more than 1000 languages spoken, and in these conditions no one could be found to turn the islands over to, who might be trusted to keep the Philippines independent. The Japanese even then, the Germans, the Russians, the British, the French, all the Great Powers involved in the colonial exploitation of Asia were all casting covetous looks at the Philippines. So, rather than abandon the islands to whichever power could then grab them, the US continued to control the islands, though plans were on foot to grant the islands independent status when the Japanese invaded in 1941. The reason this happened was the US had embargoed the selling of oil to the Japanese, after the Japanese occupied French Indochina (Vietnam). The Japanese have no oil of their own, and oil is the lifeblood of a modern military. Without oil the Japanese would have to give up the cherished dream of conquering Asia. There was plenty of oil in the Dutch East Indies. The Japanese decided to invade the Dutch East Indies to take this oil. (The Netherlands, the colonial power in the Dutch East Indies, had already been overrun by Japan's ally, Nazi Germany). The Japanese worried that when they made this move, US forces based in the Philippines would attack their forces, or the ships supplying them, as they passed the Philippines going to and from the Dutch East Indies. So, the Japanese decided to invade and capture the Philippines as well, to remove the threat that US forces there could interfere with the plan. And, as long as they were going to do that, they decided they might just as well attack the US Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor and destroy it if they could, to make certain that, for a time at least, the US would be powerless to stop them.
Who expressed his opinion to Lincoln that by casting the war as a fight against slavery europeon countries would be less likely to aid the south?
ok. i dont know the answer buut i was doing my homework && loooking for this answer. i found this question, word for word. hahahah! what if its one of my classmates. lmao
Who was Lincoln talking to when he made the speech house divided against itself cannot stand?
LINCOLN was speaking to the Illinois Republican convention in 1858 when he quoted those famous words. The statement, "house divided against itself shall not stand", is a statement Jesus made to the Pharisees when they accused him of casting out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of the devils, (Matthew 12.24,25)
Is there any law in Australia against casting magickal curses on someone?
No there is not.
Where do you find the casting number on a Lincoln engine block?
on the flat, horizontal pad just above the center exhaust port.
Who expressed his opinion to Lincoln that by casting the war as fight against slavery Europe would be less likely to help the south?
The correct answer to this is Frederick Douglass. Along with Horace Greeley, Frederick Douglass urged or more like provoked Lincoln to turn the war into a battle to end slavery in America. Northerners also supported this position. I hope this helps
What has the author G Andexer written?
G. Andexer has written: 'Structural analysis of the European pressure die casting industry'
What Christian songs have the word eagle in it?
Voice of Truth-Casting Crowns I Will Rise-Chris Tomlin Everlasting God-Lincoln Brewster
Where is the oil pressure sensor on a 2001 Lincoln Town Car?
the sensor is located next to the oil filter on the oil filter casting.
What continents have no landlocked countries?
Casting a mental eye around the globe, I come up with North America, Australia, and Antarctica (which has no countries at all, only territorial claims).
How casting is done?
Metal casting can be done thro sand casting ,investment casting , pressure die casting methods
William Plumer voted against what president?
William Plumer was an elector from Massachusetts in the election of 1820. He voted against James Monroe casting his vote for John Quincy Adams.
What are types of casting?
Two popular types of casting include: metal casting and concrete casting. However, there's also resin casting as well as iron casting.
