Civil War Failure

Soldiers of the American Civil War were overwhelmed by a time where weaponry and technological developments were thriving. This brutal war changed the soldiers, both mentally and physically, and continued to have an impact throughout their entire lives. There were not only many deaths during the war, but also prior to the war as many soldiers took their own life. They would experience disturbing thoughts and events in their mind that could not be explained until they became known as mental illnesses. The exploration of psychological disorders following the Civil War improved medical diagnostic tools and the way patients were treated which transformed the treatment of mental illness by creating new ways of discovering illnesses, treating patients, and developing the foundation for the future of psychology throughout America.

Frederick Douglass once said “What a change now greets us! The Government is aroused, the dead North is alive, and its divided people united…The cry now is for war, vigorous war, war to the bitter end, and war till the traitors are effectually and permanently put down” (Allen, 2005). In 1861, the start of the Civil War was needed by the Confederacy and the Union. Ever since the American Revolution and the birth of the United States, seventy-eight years earlier, there were many disagreements that began to tear apart the country. The main issues that were debated were state rights, unfair taxation, and slavery. Slavery was the main issue because it caused a separation between the north and the south. The north had mostly abolished slavery by this time because it became an industry driven economy, while the south was made up of plantations that grew crops. Almost half of the southern population was made up of slaves because about one-third of families owned slaves. The southern states wanted to break away to start their own establishment and we able to have slaves if they wanted. The Civil War began with the Battle of Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter is located in the Charleston, South Carolina harbor, three and a half miles from the shore. Many events occurred leading up to, during, and after the battle to mark it as an important part of the Civil War.

INTRO: In spite of the fact that the Civil War was a period of racist beliefs and segregation, Newton Knight held solid to what he believed was correct. In his eyes, everyone was equal. He stood firm in beliefs for slaves by gathering and leading a huge rebellious group who were gathering to battle for what they all believed was right. It caused a huge conflict along with the already existing one due to the civil war, but it made a huge impact in the end. The arguments lead to the formation of the Free State of Jones where all slaves got to be distinctly equivalent and free, simply like every other person. Many were happy about this, and many were not. But Newton held strong in his opinions of what he thought was morally right. Even though

The Civil War was a very gruesome war. The war had become the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South). During the war the union and confederacy had many weaknesses and strengths. Some of them are technology, army/military and government.

If we read deep into Zinn's A Peoples history of the United States, we may find details into our American DNA. Where and what we originally come from, what it took to get here, and how far we have progressed. While uncovering many chapters in the book, I found myself going back for more of Chapter 10: The Other Civil War. As for myself, I was never aware of another Civil War, only familiarizing myself with one. As I was reading these historical pages and awing at my founders and leaders before me, I found myself as engaged I have ever been in a historical novel. Zinn opened my eyes as a non-historical junky. Reading Zinn I found myself remembering one of the greatest quotes by George Santayana, "Those who do not

“The attempts in the Reconstruction period 1865 to 1877 to solve problems caused by the Civil War failed African American.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?

After bloody grinding battles at The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg, Grant finally brought Lee to bay at in April 1865. In the meantime, Union armies and river fleets in the war comprised the slave states that were west of the Appalachian Mountain chain that won a long series of victories over strong factions within the Confederate armies. These factions were commanded by insignificant and unlucky Confederate generals.

The Civil War ravaged the country. The number of American casualties during the Civil War was greater than the number of casualties that occurred during every other war with American involvement combined. The South was particularly devastated; most of the war was fought there. The plantation economy that the South had relied on for 200 years had been dismantled by the Emancipation Proclamation. Entire cities, such as Richmond, Virginia, had been burned to the ground, and it seemed as though the South had lost the Civil War in every conceivable way.

April 02, 1865, one of the most strategic Southern Generals, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his 28,000 Confederate Soldiers to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. At the Battle of Appomattox in northern Virginia, General Lee gave up the Confederate’s capital of Richmond. (Farmer, 2016) This has been marked throughout history as the end of the Civil War. The war was over before it ever began. Not to make this sound all one sided, meaning that the Union had all the advantages. The Confederate Army had many of their own advantages. The South was made up of 750,000 square miles, which held most of the Army’s War Colleges. Southern gentleman made for better Soldiers as a results of them being all farmers, hunters, and generally avid outdoorsmen. (Farmer, 2016) These advantages were nothing compared to the upper hand the Union used to outlast the South.

Taking a look through America’s history, even in the original thirteen colonies, there was a distinct line between the North and South. This line differentiated everything from crops to religion. As the country expanded and evolved this line not only become clearer but also started to cause more conflict. Eventually it became clear that the North was industrializing and the South wanted to remain an agrarian society. Leading up to the civil war was basically a sibling rivalry of push and shove. One day the South would start to implement slavery in a disputed or free territory and he next the North would be putting up factories in South Carolina. The main problem however is that the South pushed harder than the North. The South would ask for more benefits and complain more when the North got barely even anything. These arguments eventually led to fighting and then to the civil war. The South is clearly at fault for starting the civil war because of how it handled certain political decisions and arguments that had been going on at the time.

Some reasons that the Civil War lasted so long was because the North underestimated the power the South had. “Any hopes for a brief conflict were eradicated when Union and Confederate forces met at the Battle of Bull Run, near Manassas, Virginia. While not particularly deadly, the Confederate victory proved that the Civil War would be long and costly. The North had many strengths in the Civil War, including the states called the Border States. “The Border States of Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky maintained geographic, social, political, and economic connections to both the North and the South… Lincoln and his advisors realized that the loss of the Border States could mean a significant decreased in Union recourses and threaten

In 1861, a horrific war began. Nobody had any idea that this war would become the deadliest war in American history. It wasn’t a regular war, it was a civil war opposing the Union in the North and the Confederate States in the South.. The Civil War cost many people’s lives on the battlefield and beyond. In addition it cost an extreme amount of money for the nation which possibly could have been avoided if the war had turned to happen a little differently.

1865 was a year filled with hardships for the United States. Changes to the constitution were made, businesses formed, and leadership changed. This was also a year of controversy, dealing with racism. The United States’ strength was tested and proved to be strong with the end of the Civil War on April ninth. 1865 was an important year because of the Civil War, economic changes, and politics.

The Roman Republic was a system of procedures formed by tradition; there was no written constitution or legally binding legislation. Precedent and consensus set procedure creating the parameters for acceptable behaviour. However, it was near the end of the 2nd century BC, where the system began to deteriorate and fall, ultimately causing the civil war in 49 BC. The boundaries of acceptable behaviour were stretched by politicians such as Caesar and Pompey and as a result new perilous precedents were set. Violence along with the use of an army became a political tool in the domestic, political sphere. The civil war laid on the foundations that constitutional methods proved ineffective in the face of an inadequate aristocratic government and therefore Caesar and the senate lead by Pompey used violence and rebellion against each other in an attempt to stabilise the administrative system of government and essentially control Rome. Caesar himself ignited the civil war as a result of the unstable Roman Republic, major events such as rebellion and revolts, senate and the political sphere and the breakdown of the triumvirate, which fuelled the motive for civil war. The corrupted Roman system alongside with personal issues and disagreements became the catalyst for the civil war of 49 BC and consequently set the parameters for the new dictatorial Roman world.

The Civil War was a very critical event in American History. It started by many disagreements between the North and the South. For blacks as for other Americans, the Civil War was a strong voice preaching the needs for devotion and allegiance to form a justified nation. After the war ended there were many results that would forever linger throughout America and the world.