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the Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate), while Major General Joseph Hooker led the Army of the Potomac (Union). Before the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Potomac army was led by General Ambrose Burnside, who only commanded in the battle at Fredericksburg which led Lincoln to put Major General Hooker in command. With Hooker in charge the Potomac army was in “tip-top condition, and with more strength than ever before.” With the Potomac being double the size and much stronger than Lee’s army,

Dan Buettner’s (2009) claim that Blue Zones can be found in the world where there is a history of people living a longer life than normal influenced by lifestyle choices such as diet, social networks, spirituality, and physical activity is questionable. A few of these blue zones that Buettner (2009) researched are Sardinia, Okinawa, and The Seventh-Day Adventists in Loma Linda, California. These communities are located in different parts of the world and have very different lifestyles, and yet the

Research Paper on Civil War Weapons and Technology The American Civil War, lasting from 1861 to 1865, was one of the bloodiest wars that the world has ever seen. The number of casualties resulting from the Civil War was a staggering six-hundred and twenty-thousand American soldiers. Although there are many explanations as to why the Civil War was so murderous, such as disease or lack of medical advancements, the main reason why it was so deadly was because of the newly introduced technology and

The Battle of Gettysburg: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain The Battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. A turning point of the war, Gettysburg was a major victory for the Union. However, the battle was not truly decided until the third day, when the Confederate attack of Pickett’s Charge failed. Before this disaster, the battle could have easily resulted in an enormous victory for the South that could have changed the outcome of the Civil War. On July second, the Union

This mess all started on April 30, 1863, when General Joseph Hooker, a man of the Union, was leading the V, XI, and XII corps on a campaign to mislead the Confederate soldiers left flank by crossing the Rapidian and Rappahannock rivers above Fredericksburg. But as they were passing Chancellorsville, the Confederates popped out of almost nowhere and attacked the Union soldiers. There were 154,734 total forces engaged, 97,382 Union and 57,382

received a call tonight informing me that I had been nominated as the Democratic candidate for Virginia’s 28th District. I am honored not only to be your candidate, but I humbled to be both the first African-American nominee to represent Stafford or Fredericksburg in the House of Delegates as well as the youngest candidate to be nominated in the District's history.   I will be following in the footsteps of pioneers before me, such as Dr. William Ferguson Reid, the first African-American in Virginia’s General

1850 Compromise: Henry Clay began a series of resolutions on January 29th, 1850 to try to find a good compromise in order to avoid problems between Northern and Southern Americans. The slave trade in Washington D.C. was abolished and the fugitive slave act was amended. Wilmot Proviso: Wilmot created the proviso on August 8th in 1846. It said that any new territory captured in the Mexican-American war would enter the nation as a free state. It passed in the House but did not in the Senate. Kansas-Nebraska

Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson was born January 21, 1824 in Clarksburg, Virginia. In 1846 he began his official military career with the US Army as a brevet second lieutenant in the Mexican-American War. This is where Thomas Jackson first met Robert E. Lee. After many victories in war he was promoted to rank of major. Jackson started gaining status as a military celebrity. At the war’s outbreak, Jackson took orders as a Colonel of Virginia militia and took leadership at Harper’s Ferry. Jackson

Two parts of America, free North and the slaveholding South blew up into a massive altercation succeeding the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860. 11 Southern states broke away from the Union, altogether turning away from the idea of a single American nation. After the states broke away Abraham Lincoln, who had only been in office for six weeks, stated that the acts of secession were now illegal, he also asked congress for five hundred thousand men to stop and destroy what seemed to

I’m doing George Washington his Occupation was that he was a planter and a general of the army of the united colonies. His birthdate is February 22, 1732 and his death date was December 14, 1799. His education is that he went to Appleby school in England. His place of birth was at Westmoreland county, Virginia in 1732 and his place of death was at Mount Vernon, Virginia. George Washington didn’t have a full name so it would just be George Washington. George Washington was called an incredible