Civil War

QUESTIONS:

1. How was the prejudging of family values stretched to form a predominating reform of conscious class?
2. Did the eventual fall of formal rule have any deal of significance to the war's continual manipulation?
3. What degree of power was held in order to create a single effort of eventual conformity and local surrender?

Introduction:  The Civil War is an important part of our nation's history.  The Union and Confederate armies seemed to be fighting for slavery, but then you see the south wanting to secede, this would spark this War and turn our country against itself.  The famous battles of Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam and Gettysburg would hold our nation's fate on the soldiers and their triggers.  Freedom, once again, was being fought for and manipulated in means of profit and conformity.  Our Nation had already gone through War early on and now, during the Civil War, it was being torn apart and forced to fight itself. This internal battle of majority controlled conviction seemed to sway the beliefs of what was right and wrong. Soldiers were lead to their deaths obviously not for their benefit but for the far off mysterious conclusions of Generals on hill tops.  Being fought by the young and old together the Civil War lead the to the split of reason and morality as citizens had to chose what flag they would bleed for.

Viewing the man from the genuine abolishionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments of his people, which as a statesman he was bound to respect, then his actions were swift, bold, radical and decisive. Taking the man in the whole, balancing the tremendous magnitude of the situation, and the necessary means to ends, Infinite Wisdom has rarely sent a man into the world more perfectly suited to his mission than Abraham Lincoln.  -  Frederick Douglass

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.  - Frederick Douglass

Conclusion:The Civil War is a piece of our nation's history that can not be overlooked, or forgotten.  It was the turning point of our country when we, as a nation, had to decide what path to take.  Slavery had become so tightly bound into the fabric of our country that the idea of abolishing it seemed to break the country in two.  This War would tear families apart as it was fought brother against brother and friend against friend.  It truly threatened to take away what we as American's held dear.  It makes you wonder how our nation would have been different if the Confederate army had, formally, won the War.  One thing is for certain though as we look at its history, the blood of both the Union and Confederate soldiers stains the already blood coated history of this early formed Empire we call home.

In the end which side was truly victorious?  We call ourselves "United" but it was not too long ago that War covered our nation and blood was being split in our back yards.  Today War is foreign and forgotten.  We send soldiers away and their faces are as insignificant as their names.  They die for an unknown cause without reason or purpose as we go about our lives in peaceful ignorance.  Just like the Civil War it seems that our nation is at a turning point and it will be this decision in the near future that will decide the fate of our nation and its citizens.

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