Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on The Civil War: The Burning of Atlanta. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
An 8 page exploration of the reasons behind this critical wartime tactic. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Page Count:
8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPcwAtlantaBurn.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
States is the burning of Atlanta by General William Tecumseh Sherman during the American Civil War. Atlanta was the center of the Confederacy. On the railways running through
the great city traveled the troops and the supplies that kept the Confederate forces recharged. Even more importantly, perhaps, was the fact that Atlanta was the soul of the
South. She represented the hopes and aspiration of the people who had given their lives and the lives of their fathers, brothers, sons, nephews and uncles, to preserve a
way of life. The thesis can be presented that: The burning of Atlanta destroyed
not only a critical chain of supply but it destroyed the heart of the people.
It was in recognition of these facts that Sherman planned and executed the Atlanta campaign. He intended not only to separate the South so that the Union
could fight them on two fronts without their being able to reinforce one another1 but also to excise the soul of the Confederacy. The events leading up the planning
and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many tend to realize. Prior to the Civil War and during
its heat Atlanta stood as a monument to the hopes and aspirations of the Southern States. Those hopes and aspirations, however, had received many blows even prior to the
actual outbreak of war and certainly before the flame was lit that would reduce the city to a pile of Ashes. By the time of the war, four critical
...