Comparing The Union And Confederacy

The American Civil War has become a point of controversy and argument when discussing key events in shaping America. The arguments that arise when discussing the war tend to focus on whether the Confederate was constitutionally justified in seceding, or whether the North had the right to prevent the secession. However, when discussing the America Civil War and the idea of separation, it is important to be mindful that separation did not simply end at the state level. Letters written by Jesse Rolston, Jr. and Jedediah Hotchkiss portray two significantly different attitudes toward the war, despite the fact that the writers both fought for the Confederate States and give accounts of the same battle, one of which ended in the Confederate’s favor. When examining the documents, both writers express different viewpoints on life on and off the battlefield. This significant difference represents a division amongst the Confederate army.

The challenges that the Union and the Confederacy faced during the Civil War were very different. Critical weaknesses that seemed unfit for war, plagued the opposing American forces, and would serve to be a continuous obstacle that would need to be conquered by patriotism of the people, for their opposing views. To allow for both sides to be competitive, the efforts put forth had to mold to the varied needs of the armies by both the civilian population and their militaries. To the people in the south the similarity to the colonists in the Revolutionary War, was assimilated to their separatist cause in the Civil War and would be their drive to compete with the dominating Northern states. This mindset started the Confederacy in the Civil

A unitary government, or a Uniform Nation have various strengths and weaknesses. One of their best advantages is that there is a sense of uniformity, everyone has a sense of placement. This creates patriotism, which is important to a healthy nation. Another benefit is that change is quick. Being only one government, things a decided quickly, unlike a federal government where deciding a law or restriction undergo a long, lengthy process, being debated and voted upon. Maintaining the nation is easy, reason being there is a set of rules that apply to the entire area, not varying from state to state. Local issues can be dealt with faster and easier with the option of creating local branches of gov’t to deal with those issues. Some disadvantages is that the gov’t can fallout of of sync with the people, not meeting their needs and wants, which could lead to disaster. Since there is only one set of authority over the country, the problems locally could overflow and

Throughout the 19th century, the distinctions between the North and South in the United States were controversial. Prior to the Civil War, the North consisted of business owners and middle-class men. The South consisted of mostly farmers. The North was industrial, using railroads and factories. The South was agricultural, with mostly farms and plantations. The North paid their labor workers. The South used slaves. Not only did their opposing views on slavery and the separation of the two cultures, tensions arose that eventually led to one of the most gruesome wars in history.

ship the cotton but this meant that the South had to pay the North to

The romanticized version of the Civil War creates a picture of the North versus the South with the North imposing on the South. However, after reading “The Making of a Confederate” by William L. Barney, one can see that subdivisions existed before the war was declared. The documents analyzed by Barney primarily focus on the experiences of Walter Lenoir, a southern confederate and a member of the planter elite. His experiences tell a vivid story of a passionate and strongly opinioned participant of the Civil War as well as demonstrate a noticeably different view involving his reasoning when choosing a side. Between analyzing this fantastic piece of literature and other resourceful documents from “Voices of Freedom” by Eric Foner, one

In this essay I will be comparing the Union and the Confederacy.I will also be contrasting both the Union and the Confederacy.This war started on the topic of slavery.Another topic was states’ rights.

One of the few newspapers to act like Switzerland received a huge amount of backlash for doing so. The Republican paper did not succumb to the Union or confederate side and instead advocated for both sides, since the two editors of the paper had different views, but the public was not pleased with this decision. “The general public deemed it weakness and ‘a sign of duplicity’ to publish articles advocating both sides of the issue and dubbed the paper ‘the swill tub’ (Sachsman, 2014, p. 53). A Virginia paper tried this tactic as well, to no avail. “The attempt, however, on the part of any opposition paper to be simultaneously a Union journal and a Southern journal was becoming illogical if not well neigh impossible” (Cappon, 1936, p.14). This explains why the majority took a side during the civil war, as no newspaper wanted to loose the core of their audience due to not taking sides. It is important to note that not all of the papers in this era were propagandist. The Enquirer was able to omit their opinions and write objectively about the war. “Wise and his successors objectively reported the news rather than venting their dissatisfaction with Confederate’s conduct of the war” (Davis & Robertson, 2009, p. 37). This should have been how all the papers of this era reported the war yet a backlash amongst the public contributed to a public outcry, which can be detrimental to a newspapers survival.

In a twist of events, the Southern Army did in fact rely heavily on stealing the supplies of the Union. Southern cruisers attacked Union imports and exports, using them to provide what their weak government could not (Beringer 57-58). The Southern Army especially relied on the spoils of stolen Union supplies (Heilder 10). Contrary to common belief, the Confederacy was not as helpless as it led people to think. Even during the Civil War, the South was able to industrialize, nixing the problem of not having the resources the North did (Beringer 59). Hardships during the war did not just affect the militaries of the nations, but also the civilians that tried to continue with their everyday lives. One family received multiple letters from their

Are we really becoming so sensitive that we’re willing to sacrifice valuable history over our feelings? In the article, “The Battle Over Confederate Statues, explained,” written by German Lopez, biasedly explained how the statues of southern confederates were based on white supremacy and the statue’s symbol was for pro-slavery. So they decided to take a bunch of statues down. Lopez argued consistently that White, over-privileged men and women are protesting the whole black lives matter movement because they feel threatened about the accusations of racism. He deliberately says “White Americans”, which makes no sense since there are whites on both sides that are fighting for a cost they believe in. Those statutes should

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”1 These words, spoken by Abraham Lincoln, foreshadowed the war that became the bloodiest in all of the United State's history. The Civil War was a brutal conflict between the North and South; brother against brother. With slavery as the root cause, Southern states had seceded from the Union and were fighting for their independence. They became the Confederate States of America (CSA) and were a force to be reckoned with. The Union, however, put up a fierce struggle to preserve the country. If the Civil War was to be a war of attrition, the North had the upper hand because of its large population, industrialization, raw materials, railroad mileage, and navy. But if the war was short lived, the

Unlike the Confederates, the Union had to fight and win an offensive war. Lincoln and his advisors developed a multipronged strategy to defeat the South. First, they would negotiate with border states like Maryland to keep them in the Union. Second, they would blockade Southern ports, thus restricting trade with Europe. Third, they would capture strongholds along the Mississippi River, isolating the southwestern states from the eastern ones. Finally, they would advance into the Confederate heartland, especially toward its capital in Richmond, Virginia. Although details of this plan changed during the war, the basic outline remained the key to victory.

In February 1861, the Southern States of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana met in Montgomery Alabama to establish the Confederate States of America. During this meeting, the state's decided on a new constitution that was adopted on March 11, 1861. The constitution was very similar to the constitution of the United States, but with a few differences. One difference is that there was a greater emphasis on the rights of the individual states and support of slavery. States right and slavery were very important to the south and it, unfortunately became their downfall. Another difference is the president is elected for one six year term and, once elected, would only have one term and not be reelected. The Confederates

Confederate States of America, the name adopted by the federation of 11 slave holding Southern states of the United States that seceded from the Union and were arrayed against the national government during the American Civil War.

Both Federalism and Confederate Governments are multilateral systems of the Government, a Federal system assigns more power to the Central Government. The confederate system reserves most of the power for the states. In a Confederation the central government has no power to tax people or enforce laws.