The Survivors Of The American Civil War

On September 1, 1864 Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, Commander of the Military Division of Army of Mississippi with his Union troops, had successfully captured Atlanta from the Confederate Army led by Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood. At that time Atlanta considered as the heart of the South for the Southerns and for the Confederate Army. On the other hand “Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant General in chief of the U.S. Army believed that the Civil War would come to an end only if the Confederacy 's strategic, economic, and psychological capacity for warfare were decisively broken” . So after the south had lost their most important railroad junctions and their important productive manufacturing centers, Sherman would now fight the last battle to make it more difficult for the southern Confederacy.

The Civil War had a lasting impact on all families living during the 1860’s in the United States. For some that impact was having family members serve and fight in the battles. For others the battles being fought force families to move for protection. In this assignment, three different families, enumerated on the 1860 and 1870 Census records will be reviewed to identify how the Civil War affected them. These families are direct relatives of Alan Larson.

African Americans were a very important addition to the American Civil War such as fighting and spying for both the north and the south sides. The American Civil War was a war fought in the United States between the North and South states. The war was from 1861-1865 and was because the South wanted to establish itself as a separate nation. The northern states were called the Union and the southern states were called the Confederate. Between the north and south states were the Border States, which did not belong to either of the sides. The Border States included Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. In the north, slavery did not exist but the south was the opposite. In the war, the north and south states fought against each other while the Border States were neutral. Before the war and during the war, African Americans were treated very unfairly compared to white people. This essay will examine how African Americans were treated before, during and after the Civil War.

Early in his career at the age of 19 in 1862 he joined as a private in Company K of the 12th Vermont Infantry of the Union Army. He served during the American Civil War for about nine months and during his time he fought in a major battle, which was the Battle of Gettysburg. He spent most of his time sketching during his time in the army. He was assigned to guarding a supply train. In 1863 his regiment was dismissed.

Socially, politically, economically, African Americans were kept out of society. And they had to scratch and bite to get whatever advantages they could. African Americans were the main labor force; back then black children are forced to work rather than go to school. African Americans have for the most part lost whatever political situation they had had as a result of Reconstruction. And it was done very brutally and it was done very systematically. Another issue was in order to make sure that African Americans did not attempt to assert themselves in any way, whether it was voting, whether it was trying to buy land, the white South resorted to terrorism. And that terrorism which was a legacy that never stopped from the time of the Civil

The end of the Civil War brought the ordeal of Reconstruction. The task was to rebuild the South, which was physically devastated by war and socially revolutionized by emancipation. Spanning from 1865 to 1877, Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877, in which Hayes promised to show concern for Southern interests and end Reconstruction in exchange for the Democrats accepting the fraudulent election results. By removing Union troops from the South, the Republican Party abandoned its commitment to black equality and returned the nation to normal lives. Normal life can be defined as slavery/repression for blacks, and supremacy for whites. The statement, “With the end of the Reconstruction we in the south can now return to our normal lives,”

In the aftermath of the Civil War, there was a growth in the Social Darwinian ideas about man and society and a better understanding of the different conceptions of equality. The writers during this period strongly emphasized equality of opportunity, as opposed to equality of outcome. They held that equality should be regarded in functional terms and equality in voting, equality before law and equality of economic opportunity became their chief concerns.

It’s a strange feeling. To be a part of two communities but neither of them feel like home.

The changes that took place after the Civil War for ex-slaves was definitely a life altering event. Most of these individuals had already been separated from their families prior to the war, then afterwards they were left with their freedom, however, many of them not have a penny to their name (The University of Richmond, 2008). After the war, many of the ex-slaves traveled around just to feel their new found freedom while others were not sure how to feel (Schultz, 2013). It was shared that some of them thought that at least while they were slaves they had a place to sleep, eat and were receiving proper medical care. These individuals felt in the new world that they were living in this was far from the case. They were responsible for making

death transcends continents. Every culture celebrates the passing of mortal kind in their own elaborate way. Beyond the union of marriage, funerary celebrations and wakes are the pinnacle of human customs. The single-most asked question – what is life after death? The answer comes in many forms, none of which have been scientifically proven. Some turn to religion, while others turn to psychics and mediums. In the latter portion of the 19th century an entire movement based around communicating with the deceased brought with it a surge of charlatans whose prime focus were grieving families. The American Civil War is documented as the bloodiest war in American history where

Robert Capa (1913-1954): Robert Capa was a war photographer who risked his life to take close up photos of the people involved

It is me your son Muhammad. We made it, we made it to the Atmeh refugee camp in Atmeh, Syria. It is very crowded and there is not much food and water. I get to go to school tomorrow and get an actual education, like you always told me education is the best thing to have. I cannot wait to reunite with you and my brother. It took us 3 months to get here, but it took almost a week to get us registered, it is now the 24th of August 2012.We came from Al Tabqah, our home town, after my school was blown up. It is still hard for me to process the fact that many of my friends died, but when we heard that there were bombs I knew I had to run home to mother to make sure she was alright. She had tears of to joysee me ok. We grabbed what we could before

AP’s photo editor Horst Faas , a two-times Pulitzer prizewinner, would later state that "It changed the war. I met so many American soldiers who said 'Nicky because of your picture I'll get to go home early.'" (Stout, 2012)

In the early 1990s we came to live in a small Virginia village where Civil War history is all around us. There are bullet scars on the bricks of the Baptist church where a skirmish took place; we have a Union soldier’s belt buckle that was unearthed near the old well in our courtyard. The village was Quaker, and abolitionist, but in the midst of the Confederacy. The war brought huge issues of conscience for the townsfolk, a few of whom sacrificed their nonviolent principles to raise a regiment to fight on the Union side. It was thinking about the people who once lived in our house, and the moral challenges the war presented for them, that kindled my interest in imagining an idealist adrift in that war. I am gripped by the stories of individuals from the generation Oliver Wendell Holmes so eloquently described when he said: “In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.” I’m still not all that interested in the order of battles, I still drive Tony crazy by failing to keep the chronology straight, and offered the choice between a trip to the dentist and another midsummer reenactment, it’d

In June of 1944 one of the most gut wrenching images taken by Smith, shown above, depicts an American soldier carrying an infant clinging to life out of a cave on the Japanese island of Saipan. The baby was found half buried and was the only human found alive in the cave among the piles of the many deceased. This picture evoked emotions in many people because it showed that no one, even the innocent with no part or stake in the war such as