1. The Civil War was very different from past conflicts. To start, African Americans played a huge role in the Civil War. For the North, African Americans were enlisted in the army and fought alongside other Americans, and for the South, African Americans slaves were “camp servants,” for their masters. The slaves would cook meals, raise tents, and carry supplies for their masters. There is actually a stretch to claim saying that not a single African American ever fired a gun for the Confederacy. Women also had a role in the Civil War. Women impacted the war in many ways: through their violet actions such as leading mobs to protest food shortages, spying on the enemy, and using their organizational skills in hospitals. Women took on key roles within hospitals both North and South. Lastly, medical practices were very unsanitary. The medicine during the time focused exclusively on curing the patient rather than preventing disease. Vaccines for diseases such as smallpox were largely unavailable to those outside of towns, this led to
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• We are still afflicted by the painful sequences both of slavery and the late rebellion, so let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first. – All citizens are still mourning from the tragic events of the war but now is the time to have peace, liberty, law and justice for all.
• Not be asked to put no difference between those who fought for the Union and those who fought against it, or between loyalty and treason. – To put aside the past conflicts and unite as a country.
• It was a war of ideas, a battle of principles and ideas, a war between the old and new – Douglass believed this because the North and South had clashing opinions and ideas against each other because both wanted to operate differently.
• From the far-reaching, unchangeable and eternal principles in dispute, and for which our sons and brothers encountered hardship, danger, and death. – The disagreement between the North and South, led to
• We are still afflicted by the painful sequences both of slavery and the late rebellion, so let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first. – All citizens are still mourning from the tragic events of the war but now is the time to have peace, liberty, law and justice for all.
• Not be asked to put no difference between those who fought for the Union and those who fought against it, or between loyalty and treason. – To put aside the past conflicts and unite as a country.
• It was a war of ideas, a battle of principles and ideas, a war between the old and new – Douglass believed this because the North and South had clashing opinions and ideas against each other because both wanted to operate differently.
• From the far-reaching, unchangeable and eternal principles in dispute, and for which our sons and brothers encountered hardship, danger, and death. – The disagreement between the North and South, led to