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One of the Civil War’s first battles was fought on Wilmer McLean’s plantation, so he decided to relocate his family to Appomattox and at the end of the war, he hosted the surrender between Generals Robert E. Lee of the South and Ulysses Grant of the North.
“The Civil War began in my back yard and ended in my front parlor.” |
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| This is just one example of how personal the Civil War was for Americans. |
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| Men who had not gone 20 miles from home travelled 100’s of miles around the country. Brother was fighting brother and father was fighting son. |
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| Although the war took a devastating toll, it changed the way we fought wars, there were many advances, and it changed the way we viewed our country. |
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| There was a large disconnect between the North and South culturally, politically, and economically. Even the names of battles were different. For instance, the first real battle of the Civil War was Bull Run to the North but Monassas to the South. |
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| The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places across America |
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| Four years of war generated over a million pictures, it was the first American war to be documented with photography. This changed the way news was presented and the way people viewed the war. |
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The Civil War was also known as the Boys’ War because many of the soldiers were very young.
-More than 2,000,000 Federal soldiers were twenty-one or under (of a total of some 2,700,000)
-More than 1,000,000 were eighteen or under.
-About 800,000 were seventeen or under.
-About 200,000 were sixteen or under.
-About 100,000 were fifteen or under.
-Three hundred were thirteen or under-most of these fifers or drummers, but regularly enrolled, and sometimes fighters.
-Twenty-five were ten or under. |
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| 3 Million people fought and 600,000 people died. This is more than all American wars COMBINED. At the time, that was 2% of the population. |
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Military:
1. First Machine Gun
2. First Submarine
3. Secret Service wasestablished |
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Medically/Scientifically:
1. Weather Forecasting
2. Considered “End of the Medical Middle Ages”
3.Ambulance Teams
4. Organized Medical Corps
5. Wide-use of anesthetics
6. Huge advancements in neurology such as improved brain surgery techniques (before: trepanning) |
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| Before the the Civil War, America was divided into regions culturally, politically, and economically. |
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| South was agricultural, the North was quickly becoming industrial, and the West was just a free for all. This caused each of the regions to be isolated from each other. |
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| Before the Civil War when someone would talk about America they would say “America are...” a because we were thought of as a plural entity. The state you lived in was more important than the country itself. |
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| Civil War UNITED the states and we became “America is...” You were not just a Michigander, you were foremost an American. |
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| Although the last Civil War veteran died in 1951, the Civil War still affects us today. |
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| Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves (even though it was an act of war, not justice) and brought us closer to a world of equality. Unfortunately, the emancipation also uprooted racism and groups such as the Ku Klux Klan were established and laws such as the Jim Crow laws were passed. |
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| It cleared up issues between Federal and State jurisdiction and rights that made the United States more stable. |
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| We also still hold associations to the Civil War like the Confederate Flag. |
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| Although we do not feel the direct effects of the Civil War, had the war not gone the way it had, we would live in a completely different world. |
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