The Civil War as a Battle on the Seas
It was a war to surpass all wars. It began as a disagreement; who had the right to succeed, and whose power was more effective. The Civil War began as a test of states' rights versus federal rights, and augmented into the bloodiest battle to ever be fought on American soil. When it began, both sides were certain that the war would be quick, ninety days at most, and God would see to it that the one in the right was victorious. As the days progressed, and the ninety days passed, the fate of the war was again placed into Gods hands, and the country's worst fear was about to take effect. The war emanated over the South's right to secede from the Union, but quickly turned into a war about the "proper way of life". When the war concluded, the North had won, and the slaves were freed, and in the eyes of the government, they would no longer be enslaved. In 1860, there were about nine million people in the South, and out of that, four million were slaves. They made up about one-sixth of the American population before the Civil War began. The nation was expanding westward, and as the people drove west, they settled down and began to raise families. With a rapidly growing population and nation, a quarrel could separate the regio
Hansen, Joyce. Between Two Fires. New York: Franklin Watts, 1993. The freedmen soldiers made many contributions that no history book could ever capture. Everything that they stood for, everything they fought for, fueled their craving for victory even more. The soldiers left the battlefields with more than just the experience of war The experience of battling the inequality was won in the eyes of the military. The experience of those who fought in the fifty-fourth Massachusetts, those who lived to tell about it, did and their story was made into an Oscar nominated movie. The experience of not only being liberated, but fighting for the rights of slaves who were still enslaved, and succeeding, was emancipation for them. The experience of fighting tirelessly and struggling to survive on -what seemed to be- barely enough for a civilian to survive on. When the last shot was fired, and the soldiers had left the battlefields, the entire country not only realized what they had done to keep themselves together, but also what price had been paid for the freedom of its slaves. A country based on freedom needed a Civil War to assure that the residents had that freedom to stand upon. Because of our Civil War, slavery was abolished and we, as Americans, are guaranteed the right to be free. Catton, John. Reflections on the Civil War. New York: Doubleday and Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. From Slavery to Freedom. New
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