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Battle Of Gettysburg

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The Battle of Gettysburg took place on June 24,1863, General Robert E. Lee lead his confederate Army across the Potomac River and Headed towards Pennsylvania. President Lincoln replaced his army commander, General Joseph Hooker, with General George Meade. Meade led the union army north from Washington. Lee's Calvary commander was J.E.B. Stuart who instead of reporting union movements to Lee, had gone off on a raid deep in the Union rear. Symbolism of the Battle of Gettysburg to the Civil War
Summary: The Battle of Gettysburg was symbolic of the major cause of the Civil War. It included the impact of slavery and the states' rights. These were identified by the reactions and political beliefs of two key figures Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln. Both of these men would be the events leading up to the Civil War. It is this impact that would have the everlasting effect of the battle, which would be called the turning point of the war.

Ariel M. Murcko American History Period F. The Battle of Gettysburg was symbolic of the major cause of the Civil War. It included the impact of slavery and the states' rights. These were identified by the reactions and political belief of two key figures Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln. Both of these men would be impacted by the events leading up to the Civil War. It is this impact that would have the everlasting effect of the battle, which would be called the turning point of the war. The first of many compromises and bills to try to temporary solve the ultimate slave question was the Missouri Compromise also known as the Compromise of 1820. Aside from a few acts such as the 3/5 Clause the Missouri Compromise was where it all began. This compromise involved the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It was made for the people in the new Missouri Territory and gave them the power to draft a constitution and form a government before admission to the Union was granted. It stated that slaves into Missouri should be forbidden and that all children of slave parents in the state should be free at the age of twenty-five, this bill was passed in 1819. On February 2, 1848 the problem widen when Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo giving United States an abundance of land that was still left to be decided. Lincoln repealed this compromise in 1854. He said we did not question patriotism but rather the motive or morals of any man. Lee would of that thought that the Missouri Compromise was also a quick solution hat needed to be changed being from Virgina, he would of not been directly connected to the Missouri Compromise. The next major temporary solution was the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 this repealed the previous issued Missouri Compromise and established that popular sovereignty should resolve anything to do with slavery. Its' purpose was to organize the territory which the Louisiana Purchase before the states were admitted to the Union. Sectionalism soon became more prominent between the South and North. Abraham Lincoln although not directly related to this act felt that the Kansas- Nebraska Act was a direct effort to repeal the Missouri Compromise, which many Northerners thought of as part of the Constitution. Anther connection is the main leader of this act, Stephen Douglas who Lincoln later debated with in 1858 and also ran against in the Election of 1860. Robert E. Lee would have thought was fair and legal because the government chose to override the Missouri Compromise. In the mist of all this, a slave from Missouri was fighting for his freedom in one of the cases most associated with the Civil War, Dred Scott v. Stanford. Dred Scott was a slave form Missouri from 1833 to 1843 he then went to Illinois which was a free state. After returning to Missouri Scott sued for his freedom. His masters claimed that no Negro of African descent and the descendant of slaves could be a citizen It was this case that posed a merge in the constitution now leaving nothing and nowhere off limits for this spreading sectionalism. It was this case that Lincoln makes reference too in his Gettysburg Address claiming that we are all created equally.

Now that Lincoln was brought back into politics by the Dred Scott case and the Missouri Compromise, he was determined to solve this slavery issue once and for all. The first step of this was a series of seven debates in 1858 with Stephen Douglas in a variety of locations in Illinois which gave him national attention. The reason was for a seat in Senate, it did much more and set the standards for both sides as well as gave Lincoln recognition because he was relatively unknown. In it Lincoln claimed that he was opposing to the expansion of slavery anymore than it already was. Douglas however supported popular sovereignty and thought the territory residents should vote on whether or not to allow slavery. He helped enact the Compromise of 1850 and was responsible for the Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1854. These series of debates formed the platforms of the Democrats and the new party of Republicans. Lincoln represented the Republicans and although Lincoln lost the debate (Douglas won the re-election) he gained wide spread popularity that helped win the 1860 election. Lincoln however did secede in falsifying Douglas with some profound questions, one of these questions asked my Lincoln was, " Can people of a United States Territory [lawfully] exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a state constitution." Douglas had two choices which challenged his quick judgement if he answered negatively he would probably lose the support of Northern Democrats and his Senate seat by admitting the doctrine of popular sovereignty had been outdone by the Supreme Court ; if he answered in the affirmative [which he did] he could of jeopardized his presidential ambitions by alienating Southern Democrats. His response became known has the Freeport Doctrine. In it he stated that slavery could legally be banished from the territories if the legislature or these territories refused to enact political regulations. This debate was directly linked to Lincoln without it he would of probably not been able to gain the national attention he received, and furthermore helping in his winning of the election of 1860. Robert E. Lee, although not directly involved, it is in this debate where he comments that slavery is a "political evil." This shows us that he does not totally supporting the South, he feels he has a obligation but he still recognized the evil of it. A civil war by definition is, " a war between factions or regions of the same country." The American Civil War is so much more than that. The events leading up to the Civil Ware all represented in the battle of Gettysburg. It symbolic because it is impossible to have this battle without any one of these events mentioned and so many more. It posed right from wrong, and tested how far morales could go in government. Not only is it a justified war it's a war that was necessary for its' time.

Ibn Sina Hospital

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:52:02 CDT

Dateline:
17/18 April 2004

Last weekend, I video-taped a story inside the Ibn Sina Hospital (I-BEEN SEE-NA) in Baghdad's Green Zone (currently called the I-Z). Built in the 1960's, this medical facility was once the private hospital for Saddam's family and his closest Baathist cronies. Located near the hospital, the Iraqi Secret Police had a torture facility. Today, it stands empty.

Last year (Spring 2003), CNN did a story on the torture chambers (i.e. shortly after it was completely looted and burned by the Iraqis). Before the war, one wing of the hospital was reserved for political prisoners needing medical care. If the Secret Police wanted to torture a prisoner more, they'd fix them up at the Ibn Sina hospital, stabilize their vitals for a few days, and then start the torturing all over again...

I learned about this infamous Baathist facility from two U.S. Army doctors. One of them said "the Iraqis certainly don't want it back."

Today, Ibn Sina is one of two major trauma & critical care hospitals in Iraq. Once a Soldier or Marine is stable enough to travel, they're flown to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. It's the same hospital where the Private from West Virginia visited before flying back to the states.

On Saturday, I spent 16 hours on ICU #2. I worked 8 hours, took a 3 hour break, then returned for the nightshift. When I first walked onto the ward...it was a full house. In the first bed, a young 23-year old Marine was stretched out in a drug-induced coma. He had the word Marine tattooed across his chest. Throughout the day, his buddies would stop by the ward to see if he was awake.

The doctors and nurses kept him under so the swelling to his brain would go down. The entire time I was on ICU #2, no less than two nurses were at his bedside. While the international news headlines focused on the street fighting raging in Fallujah, another battle was being waged around the bedside of this young Marine. The full extent of his brain damage remains unknown. The doctors aren't very hopeful that he'll ever talk or walk again...

In the next bed, a 20-something Iraqi man laid crying, recovering from a serious gunshot wound to the stomach. All he wanted to do was drink some water and go home. According to the translator, he missed his mother. Evidently, alone and in the middle of day, he had charged a security checkpoint with an AK-47. No U.S. troops were injured during his misguided attack.

On the other side of the room, a Christian Iraqi man, with his entire family at his bedside, continued to battle for his life. Somehow, he had found himself in the crossfire between U.S. troops and Iraqi Fedayeen. His father, mother and sister waited patiently throughout the day for him to wake up... At 2-o-clock in the morning...his sister remained asleep by his bedside. The staff had covered her with a blanket as she sat upright in an old office chair.

Next to the Christian Iraqi, a 20-something African-American boy went in and out of consciousness throughout the day. Tears flowed slowly from his eyes and he could barely speak.

A Purple Heart was pinned onto the sheets next to his pillow. This young man lost his right leg, just above the knee, to an IED (Improvised Explosive Device).

He was driving a HMMWV when the blast occurred under the left front tire. Because he held unto the steering wheel during the blast, he saved the lives of the other soldiers riding in the vehicle.

Laying in a bed in the second room of ICU #2 was a hard-core, card-carrying, full-of-hate Fedayeen Saddam. He had a crudely fashioned Fedayeen tattoo inked on his chest. When I first entered the room, I place my hand over my heart. It's sort of a Muslim hello. All I got back was a blank stare and a left hand held slightly off the bed with a clinched fist. Basically, this Fedayeen fighter told me to fuck off. I'm sure he would have told me outloud, but his jaw had been completely shattered. A tube ran out of his chest and he was hooked up to a dozen different machines.

Of all the causalities on ICU #2, he was in the best shape. Looking back at him, I put my hand against my heart again...then...went about my business of video-taping the staff at work. For the most part, I ignored him the rest of the day. According to the staff, he had caused a lot of trouble since arriving in ICU. His right arm and legs were bound to the bed so he couldn't hit the staff or run away. About mid-way thru the first shift, the staff gently prepared to move this Fedayeen to another ward. As two young medics got his bed ready to move, he gave a fist, then slowly opened hand and began to cry. It's strange to watch an actual awakening...

In that single moment, all of this hatred just washed away. He pointed towards the Chief nurse...wanting to touch her hand...trying to reach out and say thank you. The staff released his arm and leg from the bed restraints. Everyone gave him big smiles and some encouraging touches and words. The Chief Nurse talked to him like a mother forgiving a child...a child who'd caused all sorts heartaches and trouble. The compassion the staff had showed him over the course of three days defeated years of built up hatred. After a few minutes more, he was wheeled downstairs to another ward... and yet another casuality arrived to fill the newly emptied bed...

Thus was my day on ICU #2 in Baghdad...

[NOTE: Upon my return from Iraq, I learned the young Marine died shortly after arriving in Germany. His family had flown in from the States to be at his bedside for his final moments of life.

According to a story written by a Washington Post reporter, this fallen Marine was recommended for the Medal of Honor .]

Here's a video report about the Hospital:
[Real Media][Windows Media]

Qualifications of a Naval Officer

Anonymous — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:02:26 CDT

hould keep constantly before him this great truth, that to be well obeyed, he must be perfectly esteemed."

Ibn Sina Hospital address location

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:57:15 CDT

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Anthem for Doomed Youth

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:26:45 CST

Anthem for Doomed Youth

by Wilfred Owen

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries for them; no prayers nor bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, -
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
the pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:36:19 CST

I fired the first shot!

okay i really do NEED REAL INFO BUT WHAT THE HELL

Quotes

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:44:58 CDT

"Muffins!!!"

- Famous General

"OMGG MUFFINS ARE BEAST"
- Another famous dude

"FMSKFJDSKLFDS MUFFINS HOLY CRAP"
-Famous Guy!

Elvedin ef Babic

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:42:54 CDT

Ef Babic? comon. now they arent even trying.

Elmo Zumwalt

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:42:30 CDT

like i said before.
seriously.
elmo.
thats almost as bad as....
DUN DUN DUN
MUFFINS
WHOOHOO
FDJSLKJFDSLKJFKSLAD;FKSAJKASDFL;KRFWIEA5093RJFDKS

Douglas MacArthur

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:41:28 CDT

i swear to god. the names of these people are so friggen halrious.

Chesty Puller

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:40:18 CDT

chesty! hahahahahahahahahah

O_o
MUFFINS ZOMG

Chester Nimitz

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:38:52 CDT

chester? maple syrup? pie? MUFFIN!?!?!??!?!

People

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:38:09 CDT

PEOPLE EAT MUFFINS
:O
OMFG!

Military History Movies

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:37:08 CDT

Theres never been a muffin movie :(

Civil War Books

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:36:16 CDT

psh. no muffins?

Military History Books

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:35:08 CDT

Are their muffins involved?

Books And Movies

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:33:47 CDT

movies about muffins, books about muffins, you know. muffin stuff.

Cabbot vs Milford

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:24:51 CDT

wow.. all the info is so unreliable. someone can just edit anything! like.. uhm this!

USS Enterprise

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:23:43 CDT

74!!

Battle of Valcour Island

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:23:13 CDT

what's an island?

Military History - Recently Updated Pages

Battle Of Gettysburg

Ibn Sina Hospital

Qualifications of a Naval Officer

Ibn Sina Hospital address location

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Anthem for Doomed Youth

by Wilfred Owen

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Quotes

Elvedin ef Babic

Elmo Zumwalt

Douglas MacArthur

Chesty Puller

Chester Nimitz

People

PEOPLE EAT MUFFINS:OOMFG!

Military History Movies

Theres never been a muffin movie :(

Civil War Books

Military History Books

Are their muffins involved?

Books And Movies

Cabbot vs Milford

USS Enterprise

Battle of Valcour Island

PEOPLE EAT MUFFINS
:O
OMFG!