Civil War Diary Report

Civil War soldier letter (Albert) A Jones, Co A 19th Reg CV (Connecticut Volunteers), In Camp Near Alexandria, 4 pages in bold and easy to read pencil, we left Litchfield Station, got to Philadelphia and marched to Soldiers Relief and had breakfast and dinner in one meat and coffee, got to Baltimore, went to B (altimore) Sol (dier) Relioef and dhad supplier and slept in the Depot, marched to Washington and marched into a building that smelled worse than our ?Hag Jsen? ever did, were so hungry that we managed to swallow their greasy ditch water that they called coffee and some of their bread and meat.

Gettysburg was considered the most important three day span in the all of the Civil War. General Robert E Lee marched into Pennsylvania in July of 1863 for the second time of the war. The Union forces were under the command of General George Meade. Lee believed that invading the north would bring the conflict away from Virginia. It also diverted troops away from Vicksburg.

The Civil War was a major part of American History which changed the country, after the Civil War America had a greater challenge, reconstructing the Union. The period of Reconstruction led to tumultuous times for the nation. There are many reasons the United States was in Chaos after the Civil War, such as the Assassination of President Lincoln, and the 14th Amendment, etc. One of the reasons that caused the Civil War was Slavery and after the War, President Lincoln wanted to put no Slavery in the Constitution because the Emancipation Proclamation was a military action and could be potentially be rejected by Southern States. Another reason the 13th Amendment caused chaos is because the Amendment freed all slaves, many with little to no education and only knew how to work on plantations.

When discussing the important work of William Freehling it reminds us how complex and often-overlooked facts are about the civil war. It was one of the bloodiest wars fought by a nation to decide the fate of slavery in America. Over 6000,000 lives were lost. This might not have happened if all the southern states would have committed to the confederacy I believe Freehlings work convincingly shows this. Not only were the southern states not committed to the confederacy they were divided among there self. There was division between the free labor states and the slave states. This was going to cause the southern state to have to fight each other. The Border South stayed neutral for a long time. This leaving the Border States (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware) open and to win this war you would need these states. Then joined the north side. Lincoln knew to win this war he would have to have control of the import city?s, ports and the amount of supplies that the confederate army received. Having control of the Border States would do all this.

On April 26th, 1861, a war started that would lead about 2,750,000 men into an inferno of hunger, torture, and outright annihilation that would kill almost 23% of all of the men who joined. The common soldier would suffer through hellish battles, sleepless hours of guard duty, starvation, and long, mind numbing marches which would lead to even more suffering. Men who had come looking for honor and glory would be lucky to leave with their lives. The average life of a civil war soldier would be filled with challenges, but not challenges that could not be overcome. Men not only survived, but thrived under the abhorrent circumstances and lived to tell about it. I was not one of those men, but my story will live on.

The Civil War was started on April 12, 1861 when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter. About 620,000 young men lost their lives during the Civil War due to combat, accident, starvation and disease. (Civil War Facts Pg1) Two-thirds of these men died from disease. The theory of Germs had not been accepted by doctors yet and modern day antiseptics back then did not exist to prevent the spread of bacteria. This is the most men lost in combat in our nation’s history due to the fact that both sides were Americans.

The Civil War changed American history, it helped shape us to be what we are today. Why did people think it was important for a war to happen? How does their hard work show what it means to be American? The North wanted to be one country and end slavery while wanting to protect their properties, which helped their money system. Let's find out how the hard work of the Americans in the Civil War changed the United States and made it different.

The Civil War split the nation in half. It tore apart families, and Union soldiers against Confederate soldiers for four miserable years. From the first shots fired at Fort Sumter 1861, and ending with a unanimous Confederate victory in 1865. All in all 630,000 people died and many thousands wounded. The deaths in the Civil War totally surpassed the death totals from any other war (1). For those managed to survive the up hill battle just began, they faced many unknowns in a world moving in an uncertain direction. With the north beating the succeeded south in the war, politicians faced a hard task of reuniting the divided country. With reconstruction now in affect, both northern workers, and southern farmers now face many new obstacles and

The North and South differed greatly economically. The southern communities were still lagging behind, relying on slave labor to keep their plantations producing. They made their money through farming and plantation work. There were a few that held a majority of the money. These people were the elite plantation owners. Pierce Butler, for example, owned Butler Island and was one of the wealthiest plantation owners. The South also followed the Culture of Deference. They believed that God put them in their places on purpose and that they should follow as He had planned. They relied on the bible to justify slavery. The northern communities, on the other hand, wanted change. They were

The battle of Bull Run ended today. Northerners, like myself, know it as Bull Run but the Confederates know it as Manassas. This battle is giving me bad thoughts about the outcome of this war. This was a Southern victory and the Confederate army looks high in spirit and high in confidence, compared to the hurt, tired, and disappointed North. The great leadership of the Confederate generals won this battle. Their plans and attacks were no match for the Union ones. I hope the North can do something to rebound from this great loss, maybe there will be a second battle.

On April 12, 1861, the confederate army under Gen. Pierre Beauregard attacks Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina with fifty cannons. The Civil War has just begun and will last until May, 1865.

One of the most important wars in the US history was the Civil War. During the 1860’s, a time where slaves were property of people and they took and stripped identity away from them by buying and selling them, whipping them and use them for cheap labor. “Most of the fighting men in that war were neither professional soldiers nor draftees—they were volunteers. The dominant themes in their wartime letters were homesickness and a longing for peace” (The Civil War: Why they fought). Slaves fought for their freedom and their identity.

At the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia, Confederate General Robert E Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to the Union General, Ulysses S. Grant, ending the bloodiest war so far in American history.

I am writing about this because it is a big problem right now when it really shouldn’t be. Now before I start writing I would like to say that I am not racist one bit. But why are they getting so mad over a cop killing a black man. White people haven't got mad over it because we know it was the person's fault. Also more white people are killed then there are of black.

In 2000 the Zimbabwean government tried to amend the constitution, and replace the ‘Willing Buyer, Willing Seller’ act with one that would allow government to expropriate whatever land it needed, without compensation. This attempt to amend the constitution failed. However, the War veterans association, independently mobilized people and marched on farms owned by white people, and forcefully removing them from their land. It is widely believed that the British are responsible for this because they didn’t follow promises that they had made with the people of Zimbabwe on multiple occasions in history. The first incident was when Cecil Rhodes broke the Rudd Concessions; the second incident was when Ian Smith tried to create a façade of majority rule; and the last and final incident was when the British broke the agreements made at the Lancaster house. However, the British cannot be blamed for breaking of the Lancaster agreements because they didn’t benefit the poor and were too expensive.