Have you ever heard Joshua Chamberlain’s speech to the mutineers? In the movie Gettysburg and the book Killers Angels by Michael Shaara, Chamberlain was given 120 mutineers to take into battle with them. He was told that if they didn’t join he could shoot them, Chamberlain didn’t want to. He gave a speech to gain trust and respect. At the end they were about to head out when Chamberlain was told that all but six Mutineers were joining them. After looking closely at Chamberlain’s speech, some may find it inspirational, powerful or sometimes emotion. Many of Joshua Chamberlain’s character traits are revealed while he announces his speech. One of his character traits is that he’s responsible. On page 8 it states, “I’ve been
When we were first introduced to Chamberlain he gave a remarkably motivating speech to over one hundred starved and angry soldiers. With his passionate and honest plea he was able to break through their barriers of hate and betrayal and inspire them to fight for a belief even they could relate to. This act alone convinced me that this man was a talented leader and would have an impressive impact on The Battle of Gettysburg.
The book ‘For Cause and Comrades’ is a journey to comprehend why the soldiers in the Civil War fought, why they fought so passionately, and why they fought for the long period of time. Men were pulling guns against other men who they had known their whole lives. McPherson’s main source of evidence was the many letters from the soldiers writing to home. One of the many significant influences was how the men fought to prove their masculinity and courage. To fight would prove they were a man to their community and country. Fighting also had to do with a duty to their family. Ideology was also a major motivating factor; each side thought they were fighting for their liberty. The soldier’s reputations were created and demolished on the battlefield, where men who showed the most courage were the most honored. Religion also played an important role because the second Great Awakening had just occurred. Their religion caused the men who thought of themselves as saved to be fearless of death, “Religion was the only thing that kept this soldier going; even in the trenches…” (McPherson, p. 76) R...
I walk into Valley Forge. Winter 1777-78. As I walk in, an overwhelming feeling of emotions comes over me. Sadness, anger, hope, unwillingness, and happiness. I walk in a little bit further and I am greeted with many huts. These huts have no windows and only one door. I decide to peek into one of them and see 12 men inside. The huts are hard to see in because smoke has filled them. From another direction there is many men talking. I walk towards the noise and am surprised to see men sitting around a campfire eating small amounts of food. The men are talking about various things. Some are talking about their family, how they are excited that their duty is almost over, and some of the strong willed patriots who are willing to fight for their country are talking about how they are going to stay longer than they were sent to. As I keep wandering around the camp I find myself at an area with many men. These men are different than the men at the campfire. These men were the unlucky soldiers who had gotten sick. There is a soldier who is crying over another soldiers still body. Again I hear talking but this time it’s about how they need help caring for the sick and the soldiers that want to leave shouldn’t leave so they can help the sick. I shake off what I just witnessed and made the tough decision of staying. I would stay because they would need my help,
The Union Army was able to match the intensity of the Confederacy, with the similar practice of dedication until death and patriotism, but for different reasons. The Union soldiers’s lifestyles and families did not surround the war to the extent of the Confederates; yet, their heritage and prosperity relied heavily on it. Union soldiers had to save what their ancestors fought for, democracy. “Our (Union soldiers) Fathers made this country, we, their children are to save it” (McPherson, 29). These soldiers understood that a depleted group of countries rather than one unified one could not flourish; “it is essential that but one Government shall exercise authority from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific” (Ledger, 1861).
“All up and down the lines the men blinked at one another, unable to realize that the hour they had waited for so long was actually at hand. There was a truce…” Bruce Catton’s Pulitzer prize winning book A Stillness at Appomattox chronicles the final year of the American Civil War. This book taught me a lot more about the Civil War than I ever learned through the public school system. Bruce Catton brought to life the real day to day life of the soldiers and the generals who led them into battle.
“Line up Soldiers!” The Red-Coat was screaming at us the second we got off the bus telling us to line up and to be quiet. My fifth grade class was on a field trip on this windy November morning. We were at Riley’s Farm and about to live for a day like we were in 1765 as a Patriot during the American Revolution. We were on the bus for 2.5 hours and finally we arrived.
Lincoln’s biggest main idea in ‘’The Gettysburg Address’’ is to honor the sacrifices made on the battlefield by treating everyone equal. He states we have to make sure, ‘’...that these dead shall not have died in vain…’’(Lincoln, 1) This helped develop the central idea by being the point of persuasion.
I chose this text because I though it was interesting how one man could make a speech that would move hundreds of thousands of people to feel obligated to make a long journey to fight somewhere, and most likely would be going to their death.
While the men are in training, they find out that any black soldiers fighting for the Union will be killed. The Regiment are allowed to leave honorable. They continue to train extensively with Major Mulcahy. The
Joshua Chamberlain had 120 mutineers(men who had attempted to leave the army before their contract ended) being sent to his camp. These men had lost all faith in themselves and in the army. Joshua Chamberlain, the that was given the job to convince these men to come back to the army, had to give a speech to convince these men to come back. During his speech, by the way he delivered his words the reader realizes what type of character Joshua Chamberlain has.
The Battle of Gettysburg was a civil war battle fought during the summer of 1863. This single battle resulted in over fifty thousand casualties for both the Union and Confederate soldiers, whether dead, wounded or missing. Four months after this bloody battle, a Soldier’s National Cemetery was dedicated for the Union soldiers, among the speakers was President Abraham Lincoln. Although he was not the keynote speaker, President Lincoln took this opportunity to render a short, compelling speech that would become known as “The Gettysburg Address”. That speech is heralded as one of America’s greatest speeches and through the structure, style and emotion that President Lincoln imparted into it, he laid the ground work for the reunification of a young country that was at odds with itself.
President Lincoln’s speech “The Gettysburg Address” was extremely influential on the nation. In this speech Lincoln addresses where the United States was at this time, where the nation had been before, and where the nation was going in the future. He motivated America to come together and unite as one, and stated we as a nation must not let our soldiers die in vain. Throughout the speech he uses strong diction, and appeals to ethos and pathos.
At the point when the battle begins, he bumbles around the ring like a tipsy infant. He is seeping from the nose and mouth, and can't tell if his body is secured in blood or sweat. The room is loaded with stogie smoke and irate tipsy men shouting at the dark young men to hurt one another. This sounds like a genuine bad dream; he can't listen, see, or smell. To compound the situation, nine different folks are punching him at irregular. It is a finished disorder. He comprehends his granddads word " our reality is a war" these white men have no respect for the sentiments or feelings of these youthful blacks men. These young fellows must battle this war on the off chance that they are ever to leave this front line. The lesson is learned from here is that every man needs to battle his on a particular fight, agree his slope. We all have our quality and gifts that we use to raise our social positions. We simply need to make sense of what it is and calibrate in it with a specific end goal to accomplish our
out.” These words were written by George Meade himself during the uncompromising differences among the free and slave states. In the first few days of the Battle of Gettysburg, he won a decisive victory over the south and turned the tide of the war in the east. During the Civil War, Meade showed great character traits throughout his experience, but two of his most important traits that he continuously displayed were leadership and empathy.
On June 26, 2016, Jesse Williams accepted the Humanitarian Award onstage during the 16th annual Black Entertainment Television Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. The modern day activist was rewarded for his “commitment to furthering social change,” and his work in raising awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement. Williams acceptance speech took a turn from the cliche “thank you mom, thank you dad, thank you chair, and thank you table...etc.” to dedicating the award he worked hard for to black people in general. Williams spoke out about cultural appropriation, racial issues, and social injustice. The poetic speech was a call to action for black people to stand up and fight for equal rights and justice in America.