American Icons During The Civil War

The American Civil War started in 1861 and ended in 1865. The two sides of the war are the Union (North) and Confederacy (South). The South wanted to keep slavery to maintain their economy and they worried that the North would end slavery. The South then seceded, starting the conflict. Around 620,000 people died in the war. Both sides of the war had advantages and disadvantages in the Civil War. Population in the South was small because it was based around farming communities, putting them at a disadvantage because they had fewer people to make up their army. On the other hand, they had great generals and a lot of morale. Meanwhile, the North’s large

There was also little knowledge into how infections and viruses were spread, causing to high contamination among the injured, and lack of sterility when dealing with patients. This caused injured soldiers to have to wait for a day or longer for the ability to be seen due to the lack of physicians. It also caused for multiple surgeries to remove infections from improper sterilization. (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/lifeandlimb/maimedmen.html) In the film, Cold Mountain, the main character Inman is shot in the neck. During his time in the hospital, he over hears a conversation of one of the heads of the hospital not to take too long on those that were dying, because there were more soldiers waiting outside. This is also seen in history due to the lack of trained physicians and the lack of hospitals to treat all the wounded soldiers. Also on his travel back home he encounters a woman who treats him with a salve and medicine to treat the infection that was growing in his neck, probably due to the poor conditions of the hospital setting. The lack of knowledge in the medical field, led to the inability to treat some of the common injuries. Gunshot wounds to the torso almost always meant a death sentence during the Civil War. “The huge carnage that resulted from these frontal attacks, combined with a relatively few number of poorly equipped surgeons led to

The Civil War is the deadliest war in American History. Between 1861 and 1865, over 600,000 brave souls lost their lives at nearly 10,500 battles. By the end of the war, there were nearly 200,000 African-Americans that fought on the side of the North, with 80 percent recruited from slave states (Half Slave and Half Free, 240). Wars are fought over irreconcilable differences. There may not be one specific cause. Directly or indirectly, slavery was intertwined in many of these differences and the physical conflicts that arose between the North and South. The moral versus practical issue of slavery evoked the passion necessary to unify the people to persevere through the great hardships that were to come.

During the Civil War, they had to have many medicines, operations, and surgeries done to themselves or others in order to survive (Jenny Goellnitz, Paragraph 1). Some of these medicines we still use today. Medical technology and scientific knowledge have changed dramatically since the Civil War, but the basic principles of military health care remain the same. The deadliest thing that faced the Civil War soldier was disease. For every soldier who died in battle, two died from disease.

At the time, medicine in both countries (truthfully worldwide) was still very primitive. There were surgeons who were part of the military, and medics were very sought after. There was little they could do to help, however. According to the Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, “the great majority of wounds and of sickness should be treated by the regimental surgeon,” (Sherman 393). The treatment given back then to a wound from a gunshot wound was amputation without anesthesia- as it would not be invented yet for about a century- and after surgery, doctors did not wash their hands or instruments, exponentially increasing the likelihood of infection of a wound and lowering the likelihood of survival. The Union had an advantage in this, though not due to superior doctors or medicine. The Union had roughly four and a half times as many citizens as the

The Civil War was the deadliest war in america because of the death, destruction, and the technological advances. Many people died in the war just to try and end slavery. President Abraham Lincoln was president at this time and he was leading the fight against slavery from behind his desk in the White House in Washington D.C.. About 2.75 million soldiers fought for the Union Army under President Abraham Lincoln , and 75,000 to 1 million fought for the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis

51,103 casualties, one of the bloodiest wars of the civil war, this was the battle that would change the course of the civil war. The Battle of Gettysburg. It had been three years since April 12, 1861, the year the civil war started. The disagreement between the southern and northern states had begun this war and there was nothing the people could do about it. Northern states which would become the union wanted to abolish slavery, but the southern states, which would become the Confederates did n’t. The confederate had been doing well in the war because of all their winnings but this battle would change all of it. General Robert E. Lee (Confederate) had won most battles including the Chancellorsville battle in VA, the battle before this one

The medical practices used during the civil war were unsanitary and rushed. Surgeons re-used tools without cleaning, and lack of soap meant that they did not wash their hands frequently. Surgeons moved from patient to patient with bloodstained hands and clothes, and no thought that they might be harming their patient. In Document B, a surgeon is described as moving from patient to patient ; “As fast as possible he attended to their hurts, and in a short time had been compelled to perform a number of capital operations.” (Doc B). The many wounded men coming in from the battlefield made it difficult for surgeons to take their time, so they moved at

The civil war was a very deadly war and one of the bloodiest in United States history. The civil war began on April 12, 1865 and came to an end on May 9, 1865. The most important men at the time were the brave men who served and fought for what they believed in. In other words, these men were the soldiers. Over the course of the war, around three million men served. Over 110,000 Union soldiers died during combat and deaths due to other complications totaled to over 250,000 men. The Confederate casualties in combat added up to over 95,000, and the amount that died from disease and other things added up to over 165,000 deaths. Overall, approximately 620,00 men had died by the end of the war.

From approximately the late 1800's to the 1960's, Civil War Monuments were erected in this country. In the 1950's and 60's some states either redesigned their state flags or incorporated the use of the Confederate flag at their state Capitol buildings. Why in 2017 have these monuments and flags become an issue with the alt left groups? If these are such evil symbols in our country, would not something have been done when the Dems had control? I certainly never heard of any proposed legislation particularly during the last 8 years. Did you? I suggest to you that these symbols are not really a high priority for removal as much as their priority is of removing the President from office by any means necessary, (i.e. Missouri Democrat Senator Maria

The Civil War was a horrific time in American History. The war lasted four long years, during this time Americans were fighting against each other. Our nation was nearly torn in two. Thousands of soldiers died every month. It has been estimated that round 750,000 people died during the Civil War. People of the North and South fought about slavery for years. The battle of Gettysburg gave people of the north the will to fight. The people of the South lost 28,000 men during the battle of Gettysburg one third of their army was killed in that three day battle. After Gettysburg the war continued for two more years. The Union finally did

The American Civil War was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in 1861, seven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, the South, included eleven states. The states that remained loyal to the United States and did not declare secession were known as the Union or the North. The war had its origin in the factious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories. After four years of fighting, which left over 600,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South 's infrastructure, the

In the civil war, there wany wounded and killed soilders. The total numbers or soilders that were killed were between 640,000 and 700,00; into more details 260,000 confederte soldiers were killed and 360,000 Union soldiers were killed (www.historynet.com). There were many battle in the civil war, such as the battle of gettysbug, Antietam, Shiloh, spotslvania, Vicksburg, and many

The American Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history, and the impact was felt on many levels. Various estimates put the deaths during the Civil War at between 600,000 and 700,000. The last figure is the result of better research of existing death records and casualty lists (Isenhour).

At the beginning of the war, most people believed it would only last a few weeks or a couple months, at the most. Because of this, not much money was used for hiring surgeons or doctors. This being said, most surgeons didn’t truly have a formal education in the medical field. Because of this, they didn’t really know what bacteria was, much less what it could do, which is why they were ignorant as to what caused illnesses and diseases. Most surgeons that tended to the wounded during the Civil War had also never dealt with a gun shot wound or executed a surgical operation, which brought about the fact that they weren’t truly certified at all. Most of them would usually only have 2 years of education, with only work out of a book during the first year, and the year after that would usually just be the same thing