During the Civil War, a lot of things changed in America. Ranging from lines being drawn, friendships coming and going, policies being made and changed, and above all, people’s ideas and beliefs being reshaped to accommodate what they saw and felt during the war. It has been said that the war can change a person. Meaning that one can go into the war with no experience and be innocent as a lamb, and then come out being haunted by what they saw. Over the century and a half since the war, there have
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The Civil War was not only fought in battlefields, but also in the daily lives of southerners at home. Victoria Ott’s study in Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age in the Civil War examines the unique demographic of young women coming of age during the time of the war. The sources for her study come from young women born between 1843 and 1849 to wealthy secession supporting families in the south. The study is chronologically organized and seeks to understand how the young women’s gender and upbringing
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human thought to define personal justice. Taking place during the American Civil War, The Red Badge of Courage encompasses the life of a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Due to this act, the protagonist is overwhelmed with a bad conscience, he longs for a battle wound, a "red badge of courage," to defend his acts of feebleness. Inundated by uncertainties and fears of war, Henry has to overcome obstacles amongst his peers as he struggles
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Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science (2016), the classical movie, Gone with the Wind was nominated for fourteen Academy Awards and won nine of it’s categories, including Best Picture. Gone with the Wind is a historical film about the American Civil War and the life of a wealthy, southern plantation owner’s daughter, Scarlett O’Hara. Scarlett is given permission by her mother to visit family friends in Atlanta. Prissy, a young, house slave companies Scarlett with her travels to Atlanta from the
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Clara Barton was a very brave nurse in the Civil War and a paragon of leadership. Among many other great things, I believe she was one of the main pioneers in paving the road for women in medicine. Clara Barton was born Clarissa Harlowe Barton on December 25, 1821. She died on April 12, 1912. She was born in the very small village of North Oxford, Massachusetts. She had a very interesting childhood growing up in a large household. Clara Barton also performed many heroic accomplishments. In Clara’s
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Due to the restrictions of female involvement in the war, a large portion of participation was in the field of medicine. Clara Barton among others played key roles in the Civil War, actively going onto the battlefields to aid the wounded. Her aid in the North saved numerous lives and exposed her to the worst of the war. She alongside many other women were refused access to the battlefield but as the war raged on, they became a necessity to the war effort. Barton was captured by Confederate soldiers
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Introduction There have been numerous assessments of the events which occurred during the Civil War from 1861-1865, but none seem to justly satisfy the absolute, complete, and thorough accounts of James McPherson’s extremely detailed book, Battle Cry of Freedom. McPherson recounts the entire story of the Civil War, stresses on themes such as slavery and writes with a style of contingency to help create a deep study of all of the events- what did and did not happen. Battle Cry of Freedom is a masterful
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During the civil war Clara did many things. She helped all the soldiers in every way possible. At the beginning, she did many things for the Union Army, collecting and disturbing supplies for them. In 1862, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Clara Barton served as an independent nurse and saw combat for the first time. At Antietam, she also cared for soldiers there as well. That is where she was labeled the nickname, “The angle of the battlefield”. She got this name for all of her hard work and dedication
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Cross operating today.The American Red Cross has grown into an educational program that helps people who would like to become certified in CPR and First-Aid,and be able to help people when they are in a bad situation, as Clara Barton did during the Civil War. She nursed union soldiers when they were injured physically and mentally. It may have been little things that she did for the soldiers. She comforted the soldiers as they died, not really doing anything to provide medical care for them. After a
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tells the life changing and heartfelt story of a young and strong character by the name of Carol. This chapter of her life is set in 1938, during the time of the civil war in the historically rich European and Spanish speaking country, Spain. The movie gives insight of this historical event through the eyes of Carol, and we also see how the war affects her and her loved ones. By the tender age of twelve Carol tries to adjust and settle into what seems to be her new life in Spain and takes both the challenges
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