Cold Mountain Sparknotes

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier is a story of two people, Inman and Ada, who are separated during the Civil War. For the most part this book is fiction. There is an actually soldier named Inman, but he did not do anything that the Inman in the book had done. Despite this book being fiction, it does portray the actually struggles of citizens and soldiers in the South during the war through the characters, mainly Inman and Ada, as well as bringing up actual groups and battles during the war. Cold Mountain really portrays the struggles of a soldier through Inman’s point of view and chapters. One of the struggles the book helps show is the struggle soldiers have to go through when wounded. The part it shows this is when Inman is shot in the neck …show more content…
Civilians, just like the soldiers, struggled with uncertainty of how their lives would be after the war. This is portrayed through Ada, who has a lot uncertainty. If Inman will return, how she will keep the farm in good condition, and how will she survive? Ada is not the only woman who went through this struggle almost every woman went through it if their husband or sons went off to fight. Another struggle of civilians during the war is that in most towns, most the men leave to fight leaving all the women by themselves. The women had to do all the farm work and learn to do all the jobs men do. It is not very easy for them, as the book shows through Ada. Ada struggled a lot getting use to the farm work like most other girls during the Civil …show more content…
This struggle was not shown through Ada or Inman, but is shown through the characters Sara and Sally. Sara was attacked and her house was raided by the Northern Army and Sally was attacked and her family was killed by Home Guard, which is also a factual group.
As well as portraying actual struggle of the Civil War, the book also portrays an actual group called Home Guard. Most people don’t even know about home guard so this book could also teach some people about the civil war. Home Guard is a group of individuals whose jobs are to find deserters and capture them. The home guard was very cruel to people, they normally did not capture them; they would torture and kill them like they did to the Swanger family.
The battles brought up were Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and Petersburg all battles Inman fought, also all real battles. Inman was injured in Petersburg, but the battle of Fredericksburg in particular shows how factual this book is. Inman description he gave to the blind man was very similar to the description historynet.com gives. For example Inman was describing how they were shooting Federalist running up a hill that and they had great protection behind a stone wall, that is actually how the battle went, he even brought up General Lee the top general for the Confederate Army at the