Prompt: Imagine you are a 14-year-old living in Baltimore in 1863. Your father has already gone off to war and now your older br
other, who is 18 hasjust told you that he wants to enlist for a union regiment and fight against the Confederacy. You know that hundreds of thousands of people have already died and the war looks like it may continue for years. What do you do?
Question 1: How would you respond to your brother? (Why would you tell him this)
Question 2: What would be your concerns with him joining? (Why do you have these concerns ?)
Question 3. Would you encourage him to go or would you tell him not to go
Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, continued to fly the United States flag, even as Confederate forces surrounded it. Lincoln decided to send provisions but no additional troops or ordnance to the fort unless resistance was met. Unwilling to tolerate a U.S. garrison in Southern territory, Confederates began shelling the fort in the pre-dawn hours of April 12, 1861, and Union guns responded. The Civil War had begun.
In recognition of his efforts, Pulaski was named a brigadier general of cavalry on September 15th.
The first officer to oversee the cavalry became "the father of the American cavalry."
Although it consisted of only four regiments, it immediately began devising a new set of regulations and training for its people. As the Philadelphia campaign continued, it alerted Washington to British movements that resulted in a failed battle on September 15th. This saw Washington and Howe briefly meet at Malvern, PA, before heavy rains stopped the fight.
The following month, Pulaski played a role at the Battle of Germantown on October 4th. After the defeat, Washington retreated to the winter quarters at Valley Forge.
Along with independence from Britain, Thomas Paine proposed that the colonies take advantage of the massive amount of natural resources and untapped land to the west, so that they could expand their power and influence.
In the Treaty of Paris, the British Crown formally recognized American independence and ceded most of its territory east of the Mississippi River to the United States, doubling the size of the new nation and paving the way for westward expansion
