The Role Of Children During The Civil War

When hearing a story for the first time, a person will take different things away from it, depending on their own experiences and the frame set by the storyteller. The same can be said of the American Civil War. Through historical sources, such as Tony Horwitz’s book Confederates in the Attic and the film CSA: Confederates in the Attic, today’s generation can see different sides of the Civil War including why people fought and how they recovered after.

The thought of war can make anyone feel uneasy but, a nation going to war with itself proves to be challenging. The American Civil War was a bad time in our nation’s history. The North and the South fought for a mixture of reasons but the issue of slavery was among the main reasons. In James McPherson’s book titled What They Fought For, 1861-1865, it manages to inform us in the form of various primary sources what the soldiers were thinking and fighting for. Sources such as letters from soldiers illustrating what they thought the war was about, such as honor, the right to preserve slavery, and to fight off the Northern Aggression. Many individuals believe that the Civil War was fought primarily for the right to own slaves but that is not necessarily the case. James shows us how the war had a deeper meaning behind the fighting between the North and the South. These men show us how, through many diaries and letters, what they truly believed they were fighting for and why they felt the

Why would the confederates and the union not take good care of our soldiers dead bodies if they fought for their country? They should stop dragging Soldiers around and give them a proper good bye because they fought for our country, and bury them well and show respect to them and their family.

The Civil War continues to fascinate the American public some 150 years after the great conflict ended. It was a struggle that directly affected almost every American living during those turbulent years. Visit any small southern town’s local cemeteries and you will most likely find graves decorated with confederate flags in honor of those who served the Confederacy. National battlefields and parks set aside to preserve lands so many fought and died on can be found in every state that engaged in the great struggle. How so many young Americans found themselves caught up in the violent divide which gripped the country is the question that seems to consume the United States even today. There is no doubt that Slavery was the central issue leading

As David Blight says in his novel, Race and Reunion, after the Civil War and emancipation, Americans were faced with the overwhelming task of trying to understand the relationship between “two profound ideas—healing and justice.” While he admits that both had to occur on some level, healing from the war was not the same “proposition” for many whites, especially veterans, as doing justice for the millions of emancipated slaves and their descendants (Blight 3). Blight claims that African Americans did not want an apology for slavery, but instead a helping hand. Thus, after the Civil War, two visions of Civil War memory arose and combined: the reconciliationist vison, which focused on the issue of dealing with the dead from the battlefields, hospitals, and prisons, and the emancipationist vision, which focused on African Americans’ remembrance of their own freedom and in conceptions of the war as the “liberation of [African Americans] to citizenship and Constitutional equality” (Blight 2).

Lt.  Col. Dave Grossman is a former army Ranger, paratrooper, and west point psychology professor. Grossman is a world renown expert in the field of human aggression and the psychology of combat (Grossman et. al, 2007). In his book, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, he talks about non-firing rate. Non-firing rate is the percentage of soldiers who freeze up during combat, and do not fire their weapon. There has been documentation of non-firing rate dating back to 1863, during the American Civil War. There is even documentation to prove that both World War I and II soldiers displayed the same consistence in failing to fire their weapons; but why is this important?  The weapons had the proficiency to kill, but the soldier holding the weapon did not. All the documentation of soldier’s inability to fire their weapon indicates that there is a psychological power greater than military training (Gorssman et. al., 1995). This force acts as a blockade, preventing man from standing before man, and engaging in the conscious act of taking the life of a person. Even when faced with the decision to kill the man standing before him, or be killed, evidence shows that man will be killed before he kills (Grossman et. al., 1995). Thus, providing the evidence needed to indicate humans are not born with the capability to kill. Engaging in combat has taken a tole on the mental well being of the military service members.

Children, teens, and men were pretty much pulled from their homes to fight in the civil war and had to fought for their country. Literally brothers, cousins, and uncles were shooting and killing each other. The civil was a nasty, violent, long war that changed a lot of lives and it was one of the most tragic wars in American history. The southern states were separated into military distracts, and couldn’t join back with the union until they applied. The civil changed the heart of the US, the entire social life of the south was redid when the civil war ended. That was the cause of the passing of the 13th Amendment, which freed millions of African Americans and slavery died. Pretty the day after that slaves and their masters were equal

The Civil War was also called the Boys War because of the large number of boys entering the war. Although there was age restrictions for both sides, young boys found ways to get around it. One thing they would do is lie about their age to recruitment officers. Recruitment officers would not care about the lie because they had to meet a deadline. Another way to get around it will be to get parental permission some dads would sign their sons up cause the dads would also be going to war. The last way kids get around this is that they would run away from homes to get recruited in another town and rename themselves so there parents won’t find them but the downside to this is that they would never be heard of again if they die in battle.

The Civil War was known as the most bloodiest war. It resulted in 620,000 deaths and more than millions injured. The Civil War was a conflict with the Union against the Confederate states of America. The civil war mainly started because of conflicts between the free states and the slaves states. People did not want slaves in territories that were not yet states. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln won the presidency. He wanted slavery out of territories. As a result, the south seceded to form the Confederate states of America. Life during the Civil War was horrific because the conditions were detrimental Life in the military camps was as deleterious as it was on the battlefield.

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The Civil War can barely be called “humane”, but it was key to bringing out the human side in many people. Women, children, and African Americans were among these people who changed the ways of society at that time.

The tragedies and hardships of the Civil War touch the lives of every citizen, including children. With many of the men away at war, women and children were left to fend for themselves through these hardships on the home front. Children of all races and circumstances experienced their share of struggles. Fear was a dominant emotion among Southern children, particularly the fear of invasions by the Union army. There was a constant threat of physical violence, death, and separation of family. Conscription and evacuations threatened to separate families. Raids resulted in physical violence, destruction of property, and theft. Even if there was no threat of physical harm, the war could interrupted day-to-day life through acts such as

Women and the Aftermath of the Civil War Women played a huge role in the Civil War. When the men went off to battle, women stepped in place of the men’s jobs. With America growing and industries being developed, someone needed to take over and the women did. This was their first experience in becoming independent working women. Women helped in many ways, they became nurses and travelled with the soldiers, caring for them, feeding them and other things.

An easy way to see the modern-day effects of the Civil War is in classrooms across the United States. Tony Horwitz in his book Confederates in the Attic found himself interacting with three different types of students. The first was a group of home-schooled children touring the capital building in Montgomery, Alabama. All white with conservative parents, they decided to create their kid’s curriculum from a Christian perspective, in this case teaching their children that slavery was not a big deal in starting the war. The kids were excited and visibly intrigued by the tour, but their gaps in knowledge became evident to Horwitz the longer he talked with the parents (355). The next class was taught by Rose Sanders, the director of the Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama, a museum dedicated to commemorating the gaining of rights by African Americans. In an attempt to help the black out of the area Sanders created a high school specially for black teenagers who dropped out of high school. Horwitz, upon visiting realized the deep-seeded anger installed in these

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