Throughout the mid-nineteenth century, the Union feuded over the issue of slavery expansion in the western territories. On January 2, 1849, the newspaper of Suffolk, Virginia, The Suffolk Intelligencer, printed an article entitled The Great Question. This article examined this turmoil, and pleaded the Union to mend its internal strife. The author explained that Northern fanatics in Congress were imposing...
The Trail of Tears was named as such by the Cherokee Indians who survived the forced march west from their native lands throughout Georgia and North Carolina. Hostility toward the Cherokees was not a foreign concept for the native people of Georgia. The Cherokees were led by the chief called The Ridge, who allied the Cherokees with Andrew Jackson in 1814 at Horseshoe Bend. During his presidency,...
As T.S. Peck quietly lay near the Confederate picket line, trying to avoid whispering and hitting his canteen against his bayonet, the Union soldier reflected on the formidability of his Southern counterparts. His troop would move on toward their destination of Richmond under orders from General Grant, and Peck anticipated the danger of torpedoes planted around Confederate fortifications. Indeed, as...