Later, Luther was induced into the American Nurses Association’s Hall of Fame. The American Nurses Association named the award for helping men in nursing the Luther Christman Award. Luther Christman recently died on June 7th, 2011 of pneumonia. Luther Christman was born in 1915. Luther went into nursing out of financial hardship, during the Great Depression, he was not able to afford college.
Book report ”Regeneration” by Pat Barker Regeneration is a story about some of the events during the First World War. With a focus on the British, and the civilians, who competed in the First World War. Throughout the story, we follow two British soldiers, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, who subsequently have been two of the most famous poets of the First World War. We follow the soldiers ' time at a trauma hospital in Scotland known as Craiglockhart War Hospital. Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon had a hard time at the hospital, because they were not really sick.
Key issue essay In 1968 on the 9th of March US soldiers from ‘c’ company entered hamlets in Quang Ngai on a search and destroy mission. The hamlets and My Lai were known as the Vietcong territory(Vietnamese army). US soldiers lost all control and killed 300-400 civilians including; men, women and children. 70 of these civilians were mown down with automatic fire once herded into a ditch. Over a year the US army covered up their massacre and 13 soldiers were charged with war crimes against humanity.
It starts when Captain Shaw fought in the battle of Antietam and is wounded. He is later awaken by a black grave digger named John Rawlins and sent to a battle field hospital. While there Shaw learns of President Lincoln passing the Emancipation Proclamation, which would free the slaves in rebel held territory. While on medical leave Shaw is offered the rank of Colonel and the position of command over the first all-black regiment. Shaw accepts and offers his childhood friend, Cabot Forbes the position of second in command.
During this time there was a call for change. A national ambulance service was established. Federal cemeteries were created. It was the first time the federal government took responsibility for the burial of the dead. After the war the process of identifying the dead and a reburial effort took place for the Union soldiers headed by the federal government.
They engaged Mexican troops in October of 1836, starting the first official battle pf the Texas Revolution. Hell bent on extinguishing any existing spark of the rebellion, Santa Anna started assembling the Army of Operations in Texas in an effort to restore order. Nearly all of his soldiers were raw recruits. A lot of them were also forced to enlist. The Texians went about cleaning up the Mexican troops that were already positioned in Texas.
This battle was the culmination of Major General William Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland late summer (23 June - 20 September) 1863 campaign to maneuver General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee out of Tennessee. Fought in dense forests and small open fields in northwestern Georgia, Chickamauga was one of a very few clear cut victories for the Army of Tennessee. However, Bragg was slow to take advantage of the defeat of the Army of the Cumberland and the bulk of the Federal army made it safely into the lines at Chattanooga. It soon became apparent to many of the Confederate generals that a perfect chance to destroy an entire Federal army had slipped away. Never again would the proud Army of Tennessee have a chance as had existed in the woods along the banks of the Chickamauga.
Johnny Wong Hist 120 Mark Sigmon Summer 2012 Final Essay Topic #1 The movie Glory is an interesting movie during the American Civil War. My favorite character is Thomas Searles. In the beginning of the film, Captain Robert Gould Shaw lead the Union soldiers in a attack on the Confederates during the Battle of Antietam, but he ends up becoming wounded and loses consciousness. When he was brought back to the hospital and promoted to Colonel, he was given command of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. This is when Thomas Searles, an educated African American friend of Robert Gould Shaw decided to take the lead and become the first volunteer soldier to join the regiment.
Wilfred Owens’s poems are inspired by the horrors of his own experiences in World War One from 28th July 1914 to 4th November 1918, the day that he died 1 week before the armistice. Lord Alfred Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade was written to commemorate the suicidal charge by British light cavalry over open terrain in the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War from 1854 to 1856. This was the first war to have photographic media coverage. Of the 637 men involved in the charge, 247 were killed or injured. Tennyson describes the valiant charge of the light brigade into the jaws of death.
One of the most decisive engagements of the Civil War took place in early July 1863 in and around the sleepy southern Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. The principal armies of both sides fought over woods, cornfields and hills from July 1 to July 3 with the Union emerging victorious. The defeat of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia by Union Major General George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac during the three day battle dealt a crushing blow to already dwindling Southern hopes for independence. The Confederacy was in a desperate military situation in late May 1863. The Union seemed about to seize the besieged city of Vicksburg, Mississippi and capture an entire Confederate army, which was trapped up in the town.