The battle of the roses

So the battle of the roses was a civil war in England. Henry VI was a baby but when he grew older he became a good king. But then after some time he started going mad. Some people say it was because of his grandfather of France that made him go mad because he used to go mad too. So Henry VI far off cousin duke of York, became a substitute king. The Duke agreed. But when Henry got better then the Duke of York would not get off the throne so Henry got an army and defeated the Duke's army and the duke himself. Now Henry was the king of England once more. But the fight for the throne wasn't over yet and the duke's son Edward went and attacked Henry with another attack and took the throne and threw Henry in jail. But then Edward fell in love with on of Henry's relatives but they wouldn't let him marry her so he did it in secret. When they asked him to marry a princess from another land then he had to confess that he had married Henry's relative. The people got mad and took Henry out of prison and attacked Edward and sent him fleeing. But when Edward came back he took the throne back and put Henry in prison. He said that he would be safe in Edwards hands but he was wrong and got killed in prison by someone who they think Edward sent. He was king for four undisturbed years until he died and his son became king but they said that he was too small so the people had Richard III become king. But then yet another royal cousin Henry Tudor came and challenged him to the throne. Richard had such a bigger army but they didn't fight hard so they god killed and they surrendered and even Richard died and Henry Tudor became king, and that was the end of the Battle of The Roses.

Robert E. Lee and the Civil War

I'am going to tell you about Both Robert E. Lee and the Civil war together. So on the last day i'am going to make a peace treaty with Ulysses S. Grant.(I means Robert E. Lee same with i am and i'am but the first I'am is just me) Now i am going to tell you how the war started.Well I let the Union attack first. Not lots of people agreed with my thinking. We are trying to keep the Union soldiers out of Richmond. Keep working on those ditches. The people who were making the ditches did not like how i was treating them but then they saw how it helped.We needed better supplies and more food. So one time we fought in the cornfield. The last battle we fought was on the roads and the Union made one big line. The Confederate army couldn't get through the line and they outgunned us. Back to the ending of the battle and he made a peace treaty with Ulysses S. Grant and they gave them some trains they stole for supplies.

Civil War

The Civil war was fought against the Confederacy and the Union. The Confederacy had an advantage at first because they had better generals like Robert E. Lee.

The Confederacy did not want to fight they just wanted to secede. This happened through 1860-1861 Jefferson Davis was their president .

Abraham Lincoln was the leader of the Union that had 24 states. He didn't want the south to leave he thought it would be easy and fast. Instead it was very long 600,000 people died in the battle.
Abraham issued the emancipation proclamation it stopped slavery.

Abe Lincoln

I just read the Magic Tree House book Abe Lincoln at Last.

In it Jack and Annie go to meet Abe Lincoln to give him a message of hope and get a special feather.

I learned that :

Abe was not famous when he was a kid.

He grew up in a log cabin made by hand and was very poor.

Life was very hard for him. He had to do a lot of chores like making corn bread, cutting wood, getting water from the stream and the last thing was grinding the corn for the corn bread.

He also taught himself how to read and liked learning from his sister Sarah.

When he grew up he was very honest and he believed slavery was wrong. When he became President he stopped slavery and freed the slave but some states didn't like it so they left the country and then there was the Civil War.

Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee was a general that served as a commander of the US army for 32 years! He was married to Mary Anna Custis Lee.

Robert Edward Lee’s nickname was the marble man because he was very nice man and there were many monuments built is his honor. he was also considered to be a man nearly perfect just like marble is. that is how his nickname marble man was adopted.

Lee was also part of the civil war as a general of the  Confederate Army of Virginia in the American Civil War. the civil war lasted four years. Unfortunately during the war 600,000 people died. He had 7 kids. And he died at age 63.