A portion of the ladder contained holes made by a penny nail‚ so it was determined they were from a prior use. The type of wood with the holes‚ were determined to be from the interior of a barn‚ attic‚ or garage. He also used a microscope to look at the defected ridges created on the wood that would occur when the wood went through a planner in the wood
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Mine Mastermind The Confederates were tired. They needed an idea. Rains had a plan. He said he would use mines like he did before when fighting Indians in the Seminole War. Apart from being a General‚ Gabriel Rains was also an inventor. He invented the keg torpedo‚ land mine‚ grenade‚ and many others. These weapons caused much controversy‚ because some thought they were barbarous and unfair. Others thought they were necessary to win the war because the newfangled ironclads were beginning
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prayed with them‚ for about an hour before he began to execute his evil plan. After his atrocious act‚ he fled the scene and traveled to North Carolina. When he was found and incarcerated‚ the controversies about the confederate flag intensified. The state of South Carolina had a confederate flag in their capitol building‚ a flag that had been there for a long time. People of color and even some caucasians‚ were protesting for days for it to be taken down‚ as a form of respect to the nine people that
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McClellan and had him set up his intelligence gathering agency‚ and he placed Pinkerton in charge of it. Calling himself E.J. Allen‚ he set up his own counter intelligence network in D.C. and sent undercover agents to imbed themselves in Richmond‚ the Confederate Capital (History). Sadly‚ Pinkerton’s reports whilst in the field were far off from the real number of troops in the area so McClellan regularly couldn’t act fast until he was given an exact digit. Pinkerton called his intelligence operation U
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setting of Yale university‚ with the participants under the impression that they were helping with an experiment in “learning and punishment”. After the initial arrival‚ the participant meets the “Experimenter”‚ a confederate of Milgram’s‚ who introduces him to “Mr Wallace”‚ another confederate‚ who the participant believes is just another volunteer. The participant and Mr Wallace were told they would be assigned the roles of a teacher or learner through a simple way of drawing a piece of paper with a
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The Loyalty and Loss written by Margaret M. Storey is a well-written and persuasive book studying how the Unionists in Alabama‚ the Deep South state‚ confronted the Confederate authorities during the civil war and their life in the Reconstruction. The first interesting thing I found was that the diversity of the Unionists. The author tried to find the similarities among the different Unionists and surprisingly she found out that the Unionists were highly distributed. Some of them could from the
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History February 6th 2014 In the first years of the war‚ what were the political and military strategies of each side? Which side was more successful? Why? In the mid 1800’s the Civil War begun. It was between the Union‚ the north‚ and the Confederates‚ the south. Each side had its own reason to start the war. Economic and social differences between the North and the South were one of the reasons. Another reason for the start of the war was the fight for more state rights and more federal rights
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made up of former slaves” (Smithsonian). She was also the first woman to lead a military expedition. “On June 1‚ 1863‚ Montgomery‚ Tubman and several hundred black soldiers traveled up the river. . . When they reached the shore‚ they destroyed a Confederate supply depot and freed more than 750 slaves”
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day of the battle. Robert E. Lee ordered Pickett’s Charge. It involved an infantry assault of approximately 15‚000 Confederate soldiers against Union Major George Meade’s troops (History Net). This was along Cemetery Ridge‚ manned by 6‚500 Federals (History Net). The whole point of this charge was to fire cannon the entire time. The ill-fated assault resulted in over 6‚000 Confederate causalities (History Net). Pickett’s Charge marked the conclusion of the Battle of Gettysburg and Lee’s last invasion
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fought on either side of the Civil War. What it shows is that states like Arkansas and Kentucky‚ which had normally been associated with the Southern states and their traditions‚ were somehow caught on the border between the Union states and the Confederate states. Some of their people were for slavery‚ while many were opposed to it. These borders often became the sites of great battles‚ which forced peacemakers on either side to have to choose sides. The “hawk” for many Arkansans was the federal
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