Stereotypes During The Civil War

To begin, let’s remember back, let’s search our reminiscings, our memories, for traces of a scenario in which the tree of liberty to which Americans shed their blood, sweat, and tears was still fledgling, when its branches were in the beginnings of flourishes than would grow to shade and shelter the world. A time when life was synonymous with oppression and the struggle to lift free of that dread shadow that stretched from across a wide, wide ocean was more than threats and news stories, more than sporadic strikes. When red was for red coats, more than a color on our star-spangled banner, before we had a star-spangled banner. Remember—no, imagine—that, because that’s all most can do. Because it’s not the most that give their futures to the few, it’s the few that give their futures to the most. …show more content…
Which makes sense, as the best historians are the ones that write as biographers do, determined to ensure that there is nothing missed in the telling as the little details are what paint the bigger picture. We, we the people, we live in this bubble of ignorance. Oh yes, we know that war is ugly, war is bloody, war is brutal, war is unfair. That’s not wrong per se, but. But. But we are not meant to