John Voss Drills

Albert depicts how the “doughboys” lived at the front what they ate, what the average soldier carried in his pack, and combines such general accounts with details of particular battles

When a soldier begins his first training camp or when he kills his first man, his boots are there warming his feet. Soldiers might not realize it but their boots are with them through their change of heart. In All Quiet boots resemble ageing, façade, and change in heart. In the beginning of the book Paul and Muller are bedside with their dieing

While thinking about an upcoming battle Robert E. Lee ponders the battle plan. He remembers when he was in the Union and thinks on his

The date was December 10th 1864, just a little over three years after the beginning of the civil war, and the Union Army was waiting just outside the city of Savannah. Just 25 days earlier General Sherman and his Union Army had left the city of Atlanta after its seizure and were now poised to try the same thing in Savannah . The only thing standing in their way of completing this task was the formidable Fort McAllister. The Union Army, if it were able to seize the Fort would complete the seizure of the city of Savannah and open up a valuable resupply route to the sea. The man chosen to complete this task was General William Babcock Hazen, commander of the 15th Corps.

In one of the parties, General Lyon was leading the troops. His army composed of various kinds of divisions. They were small Regular Army, infantry, artillery, and calvary unit. A really interesting fact about it was the troops of Lyon composed of a ninety-day volunteer regiments from three states ; Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa. Lyon’s army was divided in four brigades. During Lyon’s involvement in one of the small battles in Mexico, Lyon had learned many things that he then applied to the battle in Willson’s creek. It fitted better because the war itself was small in Willson’s Creek. It made the same tactics reliable. However, Lyon was not very good at organizing the group for himself. He went with 3 people during the battle. He eventually

According to Document C (Two letters from Robert E. Lee), Robert E. Lee says this, “General Barkside is killed. Generals Garnett and Armistead are missing.” Robert E. Lee also says this, “I therefore, in a sincerity, request your Excellency to take measures to supply my place.” This is a turning point because generals for the confederacy have died or went missing. This helps the Union because they don’t have to face the generals and those generals can’t command soldiers since they are hurt. Also when Lee says he needs to “supply his place” it would be hard because a lot of generals for the Confederacy are gone, so the Confederacy does not have a lot of generals to fill in for Lee. So Lee would have to stay where he is even though he can’t fulfill the expectations of others. This also shows that the Confederacy morale is going down and this is another advantage for the Union because now the Union morale is going up.

On July 4, 1865 in Savannah, Georgia, the 22nd Iowa mustered out of federal service after a reading of the Declaration of Independence and Emancipation Proclamation. That afternoon, in the aftermath of this explicitly patriotic commemoration of the new improved United States: the encapsulation of the Republican ideal of the conflict as a struggle to reassert the promise of the Revolution, Taylor Peirce, the fervent abolitionist, watched as a mob of townspeople and drunken Union soldiers, some of them perhaps his own comrades, assault the city’s black fire brigade as it paraded in celebration of the nation’s triumph. Once hopeful for his dream of a new South,

Civil War historians view the Battle of Chancellorsville as General Robert E. Lee’s “greatest and most remarkable” victory (Sears 1). Lee, facing an army twice his size, defies all military doctrine and divides his army multiple times in order to out-maneuver and surprise the Union forces. The daring maneuver succeeds and ultimately forces the Union’s Army of the Potomac to retreat. The victory was another major blow to Union troops, but it came at a huge cost to the Confederacy: the loss of General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. By evaluating the battle through the lens of the mission command activities, one can see how Lee’s daring maneuver was actually very calculated and his only option for victory. Throughout the rest of this paper, I will describe the timeline of the battle and how General Lee used the mission command activities of understand, visualize, assess, and lead to ultimately achieve victory at Chancellorsville.

I am ordered by the government of the Confederate States to demand the evacuation of Fort Sumter. My aides, Col. Chestnut and Cap. Lee, are

Corporal Thomas Searles underwent a drastic change from a nerdy, bookish man, to one of the most bravest soldiers in the regiment. The minute he found out about the 54th Massachusetts regiment, he didn’t think twice in enlisting and was very eager about it. The minute he got in his

Chapter 2 sums up the war in a different fashion, showing the contrast between the uselessness of past knowledge and the “raw and emotional skills necessary” in the trenches (20). The duties imposed on the camp by Corporal Himmelstoss symbolize the hours of work and duties done before enlistment that mean nothing during the war. Being “put through every conceivable refinement of parade ground soldiering” shows how schoolbook tasks were diligently performed only for fear of how society would perceive the boys if they were to do otherwise (26). Himmelstoss himself is the embodiment of previous responsibilities that only make the men “howl with rage” at present (26). The death of Kemmerich goes hand in hand with the death of innocence, Kemmerich’s shiny boots being the small glimpse of hope that keeps the men going. Baumer receives saveloy, hot tea, and rum from Muller for salvaging the boots. In return for giving Muller a sense of hope, Baumer receives a more needed sense of comfort and satisfaction. His hunger, one “greater than comes from the belly alone” (33), is thus satisfied. Chapter 7 directly reinforces this transition from an old life into a new one. Baumer “feels an attraction” to the

The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet’s nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and string us to death. It is unnecessary. It put us in the wrong. It is fatal. –Robert Toombs. (Boerner paragraph 2).

In the early morning of October 10, 2015, the Heffeweissen troops were forced to arrange and arm themselves in the most ill prepared manner. Heffeweissen, where few of the soldiers were from, was a poor nation with a benevolent ruler—Landgrave Frederick XXII. In his attempt to compensate the nation’s depleted treasury, Landgrave Frederick XXII rented out thousands of soldiers to other national militaries—one of which was under Solomon Rex of Britain. Under General Rex, the soldiers, or Heffians, arranged themselves in a military formation of about twenty men. Despite, their substantial amount of manpower to support General Rex’s loyalist cause, most—if not all—of them were untrained for war, were inexperienced with weapons, and—above all—were insufficient in battle strategies.

On Aug. 8, 2015, during a question and answer session at the 20TH annual Michael Jordan Flight School basketball camp, Michael Jordan was asked who he considered the biggest trash talker he ever faced. His answer, Larry Bird. In fact, Larry Bird, is listed among the top 10 NBA ‘trash talkers’ of all time. Larry Bird would love our Solea Laser because, we can use it to clean up his mouth, painlessly!

Through out this book the author shows that war is not about heroism and fighting nobly for your country, war is a terrible thing. Paul and his friends are on the frontline in the shelters for days and the pressure gets to the men as Paul says here. "The recruit who had the fit earlier is raving again and two more have joined in. One breaks away and runs for it." This shows that the frontline, added by lack of food, has driven the young recruits mad and so much so that one recruit runs away out into the battle field with inevitable consequence of death. Paul describes the front line in many ways to show the reader and give the reader a good picture of what the frontline is like for a soldier, as Paul expresses here." The front is a cage and you have to wait nervously in it for whatever happens to you", and Paul also says. "I can be squashed flat in a bomb-proof dugout, and I can survive ten hours in the pen under heavy barrage without a scratch." This shows the reader that it is very unpredictable on the frontline and that a soldier owes his life only to lucky chances that they have not yet been killed.