The job of a historian is to argue the points they believe that occurred in historical events. Heilder argues that a war in any place or period of time is really just “organized violence,” and is just as cruel even though it’s structured with strategies and tactics. Arnold’s book represents the war from the North’s point of view. It states that life in the North was so much different than life in the South. Beringer clearly conveys that they cannot settle the debates of the Confederate defeat. They do, however, hope to provide fresh ideas and present new facts that led to their downfall and what all the Confederates endured on their end of the war. Lonn explicitly expresses her loathing of war by stating that basically people glorify war, but
