What Is The Point Of View Of What This Cruel War By Chandra Manning

Furthermore, "most Southern volunteers believed they were fighting for liberty as well as slavery" (McPherson, p. 20). The southerners fought for their independence and the right of their state unlike slavery being the cause of Civil War as has been highlighted in the history The Southern soldiers were strong in their belief that fighting is the only way through which they could actually preserve their Southern nation and if they backed off from the war they would "no longer have a country worthy of the name" (McPherson, p. 99). Southerners refused that they fought for slavery as they strongly believed in preserving the honor and culture of their Southern

Book Review: Co Aytch or a Side Show of the Big Show Sam Watkins was born in 1839 in Tennessee where he enlisted to join to the First Tennessee Regiment and fight alongside the Tennessean Confederate Army. During his time in the Civil War, Watkins identified himself as Maury Grays. In his memoir, Co. Aytch or a Side Show of the Big Show, Sam distinctively displays details to describe his life changing experiences from conflicts that arose from the war such as when he discusses his battle at Shiloh. Being that Samuel endured the Civil War himself, his vivid descriptions are even more believable. Furthermore, in Co Aytch, Watkins constantly reminds readers that he, in no way, “intends to write history; rather, he sought to convey his own impressions of a ‘few sketches and incidents from the observation of a ‘high private’ in the rear ranks of the rebel army,

Jubilee is a book that tells the story of Elvira Dutton, who is more known to others as Vyry. Vyry lived her life starting from the antebellum years, which were the years prior to the Civil War and the time when slavery was thriving in America, throughout the Civil War years and to the Reconstruction period. Being a mulatto and a bastard of Master John, she spent most of her youth working as a slave in the Duttons’ plantation and living throughout three of the most important and famous periods in the history of America, she witnessed and even experienced a lot of changes in politic and economy as well as social that were happening in those periods. Events in part one took place during the antebellum years.

They casualities from the battles reflect the mortality of the men fighting. Shelby Foote knows uses the battles to tell stories of the casualties. Cox agrees with the point that Foote writes about violence, and at the same time Foote acknowledges the “human violence”(Cox 355). Foote continually adds up the casualties, and describes the injuries to reveal the harshness of the war. Despite dangers, politicians continue to pursue victory, and soldiers continue to fight battles because there are strong forces that push them to fight for a greater cause than just

James M. McPherson’s For Cause & Comrades analyzes and discusses the different reasons why men fought and died in the Civil War. McPherson uses the journals and letters of 1076 soldiers, 647 from the Union army and 429 from the Confederacy. Using these first-hand accounts of the war, McPherson aims to answer the question of how and why soldiers participated in the war. McPherson’s thesis contends that “Duty and honor were indeed powerful motivating forces.

One, they were fighting for their land and they were also defending it. Two, they were fighting for slavery, but not for the same reasons as the North was fighting for it. The Confederate soldiers were fighting so that slavery

The United States Civil War is possible one of the most meaningful, bloodstained and controversial war fought in American history. Northern Americans against Southern Americans fought against one another for a variety of motives. These motives aroused from a wide range of ideologies that stirred around the states. In James M. McPherson’s What they fought for: 1861-1865, he analyzes the Union and Confederate soldier’s morale and ideological components through the letters they wrote to love ones while at war. While, John WhiteClay Chambers and G. Kurt Piehler depict Civil War soldiers through their letters detailing the agonizing battles of war in Major Problems in American Military History.

The novel The Slopes of War by N.A Perez forecasts the gruesome story if the Union Vs. Confederate war. At the time, President Abraham Lincoln was running the country and wanted to abolish slavery. The bonds between families were tested throughout the duration of the war. As the book progresses one of the main characters, Bekah Summerhill finds herself and develops into this new young woman.

Slopes of War Literary Analysis “Listen and watch the world around you. Try to understand why things happen. Don’t be satisfied with answers others give you… work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things.” –Avi Slopes of War, a novel by N.A. Perez, is a complex tale of war, heartbreak, and passion based on the Civil War, and more specifically, the bloody Battles of Gettysburg.

The war started because neither side could have what it wanted, and they both preferred to declare war than give in to the other side's demands. Therefore, if the people of the North were becoming tired of the

American Civil War: Their were many issues from the American Civil War that helped to create a union. One of the issues was slavery. People in the South wanted to support slavery ,but people in the North thought slavery was wrong and wanted to end it. Another reason on why slavery was such a big issue during the American Civil War was because more states were becoming slave states. Since more states are joining slavery, this will upset the balance of slave states and free states.

While the effort of America was important in winning the war, there was a lot of discrimination and prejudice against blacks, Native Americans, women, and homosexuals within the military. The men who fought in the war saw terrible conditions and many had mental breakdowns. This chapter in the book explains the deaths that many soldiers witnessed and how many men became separated from humanity. This caused many soldiers to become insane. The final two chapters in the book talk about changes in the American society throughout the war and the results from the war.

Although the soldier he killed was an enemy soldier, instead of vilifying him he was able to humanize the man. O’Brien was able to describe the physical appearance of the soldier and imagine her life before war. The author was able to portray an emotional connection and made the line between friend and enemy almost vanish. This was able to reveal the natural beauty of shared humanity even in the context of war’s horror. O’Brien is able to find the beauty in the midst of this tragic and horrible event.

Despite previous scholarship offering insight into soldiers’ views during the war, Manning looks at the subtle ways these views evolved. Manning claims that Union soldiers called for complete emancipation of the slaves as early as 1861. This was long before civilians and political leaders and civilians began to feel the same. From the perspective of a Union soldier “slavery blighted everything it touched” and needed to be completely dismantled in order to preserve the Union (p. 47). According to Manning, Northerners had little contact with slavery prior to the war.

In chapter one of What They Fought For, I learned about the letters and diaries of the Confederate soldiers. The themes of the letters were home-sickness, lack of peace, and the defense of home against their invading enemy. The thought of soldiers fighting for their homes and being threatened by invaders, made them stronger when facing adversity. Many men expressed that they would rather die fighting for a cause, than dying without trying and this commitment showed patriotism. Throughout the letters, soldiers claimed their reason for fighting, was for the principles of Constitutional liberty and self-government.