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The American Civil War

The American Civil War

America has been capacity of some devastating battles over her long history.   World War I in addition to World War II were extremely difficult conflicts plus ones that taxed the nation’s wealth to the maximum.  But none of those conflicts can compare to The Civil War not only for the brutality in addition to devastation of human life but throughout the damage to social fabric that was caused through the that terrible conflict.

America is proud that it has never had a battle on its native soil.  Other than Pearl Harbor along 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 initially blood attacking Fort Sumter in South Carolina.  The battles of the Civil War plus legendary.  We have come to decoration the dead of both sides of this bloody conflict by preserving enormous amounts number~hordes~tens of millions~huge number~thousands and thousands} of those historic battlefields even to this day.

In the course of the war, the North was at an advantage in preparation, equipment with supplies.  But General Lee, who commanded the confederate army, was a brilliant strategist with the battles often resulted in massive casualties on both sides.  When the final tally was drawn up, over 970,000 American citizens died through the Civil War.  While that may not compare numerically to the great losses throughout the two world wars later to come, this figure represented 3% of the American population at the time.  Plus since the tremendous majority of the war dead were from America’s teenagers, the hope for her future, the set back this war had over the development of America’s parsimony was truly attractive.

In topical times we look back throughout the Civil War as a titanic battle to bring an end to the horrors of slavery in this country.  And to be definite, the Civil War is and will forever remain a of {tremendous consequence~of huge magnitude~of the essence} role of black history with the source point of the civil rights movement in America.  But the causes of the Civil War were complex with diverse which only made negotiation and resolution of the war more difficult in advance of conflict.

Capacity of the issue that was being fought out was the rights of states for self determination as balanced as well as the rights of the federal government to determine affairs through the individual states.  Throughout the surface, this may seem trivial compared to ending slavery but put in context, it was a vital consequence~of huge magnitude~of the essence} relationship to iron out in light of our not awfully 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 throughout 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.  And much effort was made to assure there was words through the constitution plus other critical consequence~of large 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 through the Civil War.  But it was the moral issue of slavery that made the Civil War such an emotional issue plus one that caused human beings to fight plus such ferociousness to defend their side.  Principally, even Abraham Lincoln made slavery the main consequence~of tremendous magnitude~of the essence} rational for the war plus 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 as well as literally caused brother to war against brother.  Since reconstruction along with the union of America, the country has had a bruise in its national psyche over this war and that bruise reminds us that we are one human beings as well as we would always be one people enthusiastic to the causes of truth, justice as well as the American way of life.

 

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