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1863 ISSUE NO. 15

REBECCA VANCE C BLOCK

WAR AND PEACE WILL AMERICA EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN?

Exclusive Interview with both sides!

Interview reveals details about camp life, the feel of battle, and how these soldiers deal with homesickness

"Our life will never be the same"

Civil War

Hear about the war from a widow's point of view

Get a quick summary about the current ongoing conflict

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What's going on right now?

The AMERICAN CIVIL WAR that's what.

Our nation is currently engaged in a terrible war, the worst war ever fought in America. The body count is, sadly, outstandingly high and it's still skyrocketing due to the combined mess of war and disease.

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Civil War The Civil War was a very frightening time for

Deadliest war yet

many families, both northern and southern.

The Civil War or The War to Make Men Free

The Civil War was an especially frightening

was America’s bloodiest war, as history.com

for three reasons, one, the body count. The

states, “ By the time it ended in Confederate

American Civil war had the most casualties

surrender in 1865, the Civil War proved to

of any war America ever participated in. The

be the costliest war ever fought on American

second reason was that sickness was on the

soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million

rampage and nearly ⅔ of the soldiers died of

soldiers killed, millions more injured and the

sickness, and the 3rd reason is that since

population and territory of the South

many men were at war the country had a

devastated.” This shows how devastating the

shortage of nearly everything. The civil war

effects of the fight to end slavery was on the

was indeed a terrible time for America, but

battle but actually the main cause of death

in the end justice prevailed and a greater

was multiple illnesses, including the yellow

America rose from the ashes of war.

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Facts

During the Civil War some states weren't even states yet, but territories.

-The North has more supplies than the south -The bloodiest battle in the civil war was the battle of Gettysburg Pennsylvania -1/10 north soldiers were african americans -Racism was still present on the battlefield! African american soldiers were paid less than white soldiers

Disease

Troubles back home

Sickness was one of the most dangerous thing during the war since germ theory didn’t exist, and most camps were extremely crowded and proper medical treatments didn’t exist yet so if you didn’t die in battle than you’d probably die of sickness. As history.net says, “An estimated total of 785,000-1,000,000 were killed in action or died of disease.” This shows the incredible effects of sickness and how it played a major role in the civil war.

While there was struggle at the battlefield, there was also struggle at home, for families. Because most men were the person in the family who made the money that the family relied on than when they went to war there was no one left in the family to make money increasing the poverty rate drastically.

And also since men were almost the only workers, when they went to war they couldn’t do their jobs, causing a decrease in almost everything that couldn’t be made at home.

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In the end...

The civil war was a terrifying time for both sides of the war and for people not fighting to. It was a terrible time that history will hopefully never repeat. But it was for a greater cause, freedom.

By winning the civil war african american slowly gained more and more rights helping forge a greater America. Though there were tremendous consequences, the civil war was one of the meaningful wars of America.

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