Impact of the Civil War
War, for the most part, has been glorified. The stories have been packed full of honor and bravery in the face of danger. "Join the Army, it's an adventure", the government tells me and my peers. Though if you sat down with someone who's seen war, the blood soaked battle fields, their dead friend with a bayonet sticking out of his chest, they'll tell you a different story about war. Stripped of its honor and bravery it's nothing more butchery. As horrible as it may seem I regretfully think that it's here to stay. We'll just keep making bigger and better weapons until we blow each other to hell and wipe the Earth clean of all human life. Allan Nevins feels that war is atrocious and overl
Imboden speaks of soldiers in his forces saying things like,"My God! Why can't I die?","My God! Will no one have mercy and kill me?", and "Stop! Oh, for God's sake stop just for one minute; take me out and leave me to die on the roadside. Though the south rebuilt rather quickly in the 1870's it couldn't make up for the millions of families that might have been and never were. Many large cities were equipped with saloons, brothels, and casinos (Nevins pg 220). He spoke of the Civil War in particular. Perhaps the largest impact of the war was the 650,000-700,000 American men killed and countless others wounded. Many of the wounded soldiers received no attention for at least a couple days. All of those people that either them of their ancestors could have invented things to benefit man kind. Possibly one of the bloodiest in our history and the sod thing is that we were killing our own people. Nevins believes that war had two sides the glorious and the terrible. The terrible is represented in pictures of the battlefields and the stories told by those that were there. The glorious is represented in things such as statues, poems, and novels (Nevins pg 212). By that time many had died of shock(Nevins pg 215).
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