Civil War Research Paper
Ragille J. Sims
HIST 122
16 July 2013
Civil War
War as we have come to know it, is a violent act practiced by two or more nations in order to achieve political objectives. Victory in war never comes without a great cost. When nations decide to go to war, they are risking their resources along with the lives of their citizens. What do political leaders tell their armies when they decide war is eminent? Or, is there even any need to explain to their troops why they need to pick up a rifle and fight for their country? Whatever the case maybe, there is no one reason why men and now woman enlist in their nation’s army when war is upon them. In analyzing the Civil War, many explanations exist why Southern men were willing to fight their own brothers and sisters of the North in efforts to defend their way of life. The same can be said for the North, why they felt the need to sacrifice many of their own lives and take the lives of their brothers and sisters of the South’s to restore the Union. There are multiple reasons why Northerners and Southerners took up arms against each other in the Civil War, and they varied from individual to individual.
It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln’s (the president of
United States during late 1840’s) effort and his influence ended up in slavery abolition through our United States. To believe that northern states won the civil war because there army was the last to stand is correct, but there were other major reasons for their victory, in it incorrect to say North won because its army standing last in the battlefield is the main reason for their victory. In fact their army to be last in the battle field was also a result of one of these key reasons for their victory itself which were established long before the civil war. Lincoln's decisions were against traditional values. He choose to mobilize the resources of the Union to enhance the power not only to the federal government but to also form a class of
capitalist
HIST 122
16 July 2013
Civil War
War as we have come to know it, is a violent act practiced by two or more nations in order to achieve political objectives. Victory in war never comes without a great cost. When nations decide to go to war, they are risking their resources along with the lives of their citizens. What do political leaders tell their armies when they decide war is eminent? Or, is there even any need to explain to their troops why they need to pick up a rifle and fight for their country? Whatever the case maybe, there is no one reason why men and now woman enlist in their nation’s army when war is upon them. In analyzing the Civil War, many explanations exist why Southern men were willing to fight their own brothers and sisters of the North in efforts to defend their way of life. The same can be said for the North, why they felt the need to sacrifice many of their own lives and take the lives of their brothers and sisters of the South’s to restore the Union. There are multiple reasons why Northerners and Southerners took up arms against each other in the Civil War, and they varied from individual to individual.
It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln’s (the president of
United States during late 1840’s) effort and his influence ended up in slavery abolition through our United States. To believe that northern states won the civil war because there army was the last to stand is correct, but there were other major reasons for their victory, in it incorrect to say North won because its army standing last in the battlefield is the main reason for their victory. In fact their army to be last in the battle field was also a result of one of these key reasons for their victory itself which were established long before the civil war. Lincoln's decisions were against traditional values. He choose to mobilize the resources of the Union to enhance the power not only to the federal government but to also form a class of
capitalist