The American Civil War was a brutal friction which took place in the United States of America in the middle of 1861 and 1865 and still has serious repercussions to this day.
To understand why this break up of the Union occurred and how it led to a bloody struggle for four years that pitted house member against house member, here follows a brief summery of the polarised opinions that divided the economic and political attitudes in the Usa as the 1850's drew to a close.
About The Civil War For Kids
The Southern States of America, who are often referred to as Dixie were monopolised by grand plantation owners whose feudal and archaic views were predominant throughout the society. The source of their wealth came from the tobacco and cotton crops which were the mainstay of the Southern citizens.
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When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency operating in the heart of the conflict. Now, award-winning author Stephen B. Oates, drawing on archival materials not used by her previous biographers, has written the first complete account of Clara Barton's active engagement in the Civil War.By the summer of 1862, with no institutional affiliation or official government appointment, but impelled by a sense of duty and a need to heal, she made her way to the front lines and the heat of battle. Oates tells the dramatic story of this woman who gave the world a new definition of courage, supplying medical relief to the wounded at some of the most famous battles of the war -- including Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Battery Wagner, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg. Under fire with only her will as a shield, she worked while ankle deep in gore, in hellish makeshift battlefield hospitals -- a bullet-riddled farmhouse, a crumbling mansion, a windblown tent. Committed to healing soldiers' spirits as well as their bodies, she served not only as nurse and relief worker, but as surrogate mother, sister, wife, or sweetheart to thousands of sick, wounded, and dying men.
Her contribution to the Union was incalculable and unique. It also became the defining event in Barton's life, giving her the opportunity as a woman to reach out for a new role and to define a new profession. Nursing, regarded as a menial service before the war, became a trained, paid occupation after the conflict. Although Barton went on to become the founder and first president of the Red Cross, the accomplishment for which she is best known, A Woman of Valor convinces us that her experience on the killing fields of the Civil War was her most extraordinary achievement.
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At that time, the ask for cotton and lint throughout the world was heavy and guaranteed the Southern States prosperity, as long as the crops could be farmed economically. In order to do this, the plantation owners relied heavily on 'free labour' that was provided by the slaves who worked the fields. The South's riches were deeply rooted in slavery.
By the 1850's slavery was only practised in the South. It had been prohibited in the North which carefully it morally nasty and uncivilised.
This issue however, was not the only variation in the middle of the North and South. Because of it's agricultural success and wealth, the South had no motivation to fabricate any manufactures other than the output of cotton and tobacco. On the other hand, the North was industrially developed and was attracting vast numbers of European immigrants who added enriched the North with their array of skills, talent and knowledge. Population in the North were developing rapidly and were keen to advance into the New Territories.
The animosity in the middle of the North and South could be seen in the dispute over the New Territories. As the soil was being exhausted by the unrelenting cotton farming, Southern plantation owners were planning on spreading into the newly discovered Western Territories taking cotton and slavery with them. While most Northerners, except a handful of extremists, were ready to tolerate slavery in the Southern States, they were highly carefully to prevent it from being introduced in the Western Territories that would ultimately be admitted into the Union.
In 1860, the selection of Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln, as the President of the United States of America, strengthened the Southern States' anxieties, particularly as Lincoln had been elected on a anti-slavery ticket. Now, not only the banning of slavery in the Western Territories seemed on the cards, but also the outlawing of this institution throughout the Us.
The South became worried for its time to come and began listening to extremists who advocated succession from the United States and the establishment of an independent nation. These fanatics asked, why should the Southern States pay tax and duty to the North, when her produce and wealth was thoroughly independent? If the South was allowed to keep hold of its earnings instead of enriching the North then, the radicals argued, the South would come to be highly prosperous. They stressed that the abolition of slavery would paralyse cotton output and threaten white supremacy throughout the South.
These views became beloved with Southerners who were convinced that the North's bulging economy and anti-slavery attitudes would ultimately threaten their way of life. They believed that if they did not act soon, then they would come to be the 'poor relations' to the North.
Southern moderates urged caution and were convinced that any move to independence from the Union would not be tolerated by the North and seen as unconstitutional. The moderates urged the South to wait and see what the implications would bring and just how the Federal government would move against slavery.
Much to the revulsion of Northern politicians, South Carolina was not ready to wait and on the 20th December 1860, she declared herself independent from the Union. South Carolina was speedily followed by Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. Together they formed the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis as their President in February 1861.
The Confederates States started to put together an army and when the newly inaugurated Lincoln attempted to supply the Union Fort Sumter in South Carolina the Confederates bombarded it. Lincoln's response was to call for a 75,000 man army in order to put down the rebellion and blockade Southern ports. This was interrupted as an act of war against the seceded states and Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and North Carolina split from the Union in pity and joined the Confederacy.
The Confederates believed that they could repel all attempts by the North to rejoin the Union and had confidence that their superiority as horsemen and gunmen would be sufficient to counter their market foes. The South also had faith that they could count on the sustain of England, who they believed would be keen to declare their mutual market interests.
Unfortunately, for the South, England had no desire to go to war with the North and had accumulated a large surplus of cotton for themselves over the preceding years. In expanding to this, England was not sympathetic to the slavery cause.
The South soon realised that she would have to proudly stand alone and fight to safe her lifestyle.
The Confederacy demonstrated ultimate bravery and a spirit for their fight, but, as ever their archaic outlook thwarted them. To be victorious in this war, they would need to adopt contemporary fighting methods and a company like arrival to administration. The communications, transportation, equipment, rations and curative supplies all required excellent co-ordination and administration and the armies would wish a strong backbone of highly skilled workers and modern, efficient factories to sustain them.
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