The American Civil War began on the 12th of April in 1861. It began in response to disagreements between free states and slave states over the authority of the government to establish slavery laws. This war split the newly formed United States into two entities. Thirteen states seceded from the Union. Each state created its own “Ordinance to dissolve the union between the State of . . . and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America" (Famous Civil War Documents) to form The Secession Acts of the Thirteen Confederate States. Sadly enough, the battles were brother against brother, American against American. “The American Civil War was the largest and most destructive conflict in the Western world between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the onset of World War I in 1914” (McPherson). Many soldiers died because of wounds that they sustained on the battlefield, but others died due to diseases and unsanitary medical procedures. During the American Civil War, medicine played an important role in both the North and the South.
The medicine that was practiced during the civil war was much more unhygienic …show more content…
She was a recording clerk and worked in the Washington, D.C. Patent Office. Barton began helping soldiers of the Civil War in 1861. She took supplies to wounded and discouraged soldiers after a tough defeat. This brave lady eventually received clearance for her to travel to the actual battlefield. “The surgeon on duty, overwhelmed by the human disaster surrounding him, wrote later, “I thought that night if heaven ever sent out a[n] . . . angel, she must be one—her assistance was so timely” (Founder Clara Barton)There, she picked up the nickname “Angel of the Battlefield”. She and her team went onto many battlefields to aid soldiers if they had fallen. She wrote a poem to describe her time on the