The American Civil War
The American Civil War
America has been position of some devastating battles over her long history. World War I and World War II were tremendously difficult conflicts plus ones that taxed the nation’s resources to the maximum. But none of those conflicts can compare to The Civil War not only for the brutality as well as devastation of human life but usually in the damage to social fabric that was caused by that terrible conflict.
America is proud that it has never had a battle on its native soil. Other than Pearl Harbor with 911, we have never even been attacked on our own soil. So it took a war of brother against brother, American against American to make even the possibility of war within the borders of America even possible.
The war’s statistics are staggering for a relatively short conflict. The war started on April 12. 1861. It was the confederacy that drew first blood attacking Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The battles of the Civil War as well as legendary. We have come to prize the dead of both sides of this bloody conflict with the preserving large numbers number~hordes~tens of millions~huge number~thousands and thousands} of those historic battlefields even to this day.
Throughout the war, the North was at an advantage in preparation, equipment as well as supplies. But General Lee, who commanded the confederate army, was a brilliant strategist plus the battles often resulted in massive casualties on both sides. When the final tally was drawn up, over 970,000 American citizens died with the Civil War. While that may not compare numerically to the huge losses throughout the two world wars later to come, this figure represented 3% of the American population at the time. And since the tremendous majority of the war dead were from America’s young people, the hope for her future, the set back this war had in the development of America’s penny-pinching was truly exciting.
In hot times we look back over the Civil War as a titanic battle to bring an end to the horrors of slavery in this country. And to be convinced, the Civil War is and will forever remain a chief consequence~of great magnitude~of the essence} job of black history with the source point of the civil rights movement in America. But the causes of the Civil War were complex in addition to diverse which only made negotiation as well as resolution of the war more difficult in advance of conflict.
Position of the issue that was being fought out was the rights of states for self determination as balanced with the rights of the federal government to determine affairs during the individual states. On the surface, this may seem trivial compared to ending slavery but put in context, it was a central consequence~of great magnitude~of the essence} relationship to iron out in light of our not particularly distant memory of our revolution against England for trying to impose unreasonable controls in the colonies.
American’s are fiercely independent people and that independent spirit was born on the battles of the revolutionary war where America stated firmly that they would no longer bow to a king or let the centralized government have such sweeping control over individual lives. The outrage over how England tried to put the colonies under servitude was the foal that caused the explosion known as the Revolutionary War. In addition to much effort was made to assure there was terms on the constitution in addition to other weighty consequence~of tremendous magnitude~of the essence} documents to assure that the federal government would be severely limited from interfering in the course of the lives of its citizens.
Beyond that the preservation of the union as one country was also in contest throughout the Civil War. But it was the moral issue of slavery that made the Civil War such an emotional issue in addition to one that caused humans to fight as well as such ferociousness to defend their side. Basically, even Abraham Lincoln made slavery the essential consequence~of huge magnitude~of the essence} rational for the war as well as determined that the end of this barbaric practice would be the legacy of this horrible conflict.
But one thing that also was a legacy of the Civil War was the determination that we, as Americans, would never turn our war machine on our own citizens again. The war tore families apart plus literally caused brother to war against brother. Since reconstruction in addition to the union of America, the country has had a bruise in its national psyche over this war as well as that bruise reminds us that we are one people in addition to we would always be one humans passionate to the causes of truth, justice with the American way of life.
Veterinarians Pennsylvania
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