US Military History

Answer the senarios below, each senario has be answered in a paragraph of its own.

1.) Assume the role of chief adviser to the president (United States: Abraham Lincoln or Confederate States: Jefferson Davis). It is April 15, three days following the bombardment and capture of them Fort Sumter by Southern P.G.T. General Beauregard. Your president is unsure whether to raise armies and pursue war or open negotiations with the other side and find a path to a peaceful solution to the military crisis (up to this point, secession has been a political issue). What advice and counsel will you give him? What position do you advocate for (war or peace)? Why? Write this journal as an official statement from the chief adviser (you) to the president.

2.) You are a soldier/officer in General William Tecumseh Shermans Army of Tennessee. It is late November 1864, and you are halfway through a one-month march from Atlanta, Georgia to Savannah, Georgia that is being called Shermans March to the Sea.
Explain your experiences on this march and why this is different from other campaigns you have been part of. Are you supportive of Shermans tactics, and how does making war in this manner make you feel as an American?
3.) As an officer in the U.S. cavalry, you serve under General William T. Sherman and Colonel Richard Dodge. You served under Sherman in the Civil War and were part of his scorched earth campaign through Georgia, now called Shermans March to the Sea. It is now 1872 and the cavalry is engaged in an attempt to subjugate the Plains Indians in the West. Scorched earth is being used again, but this time against the Native Americans by killing off the buffalo. Five years ago, you were there when Colonel Dodge said that every dead buffalo is a Native American gone. Just last week, the Secretary of the Interior, Columbus Delano, wrote that the disappearance of bison from areas that were delegated for hunting must play a part in our efforts to relocate Native Americans to confined, smaller areas and influence them to change their nomadic ways. The Army has been asked to give their opinion on this matter (removing the buffalo).
You have been ordered to advise your commanding officer in writing on the legitimacy of this strategy (killing off the buffalo) and provide other alternatives for the subjugation of the Native Americans. What are your thoughts on this matter? What do you feel should be done? Address your letter to your commanding officer.

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