What Are The Negative Effects Of The Civil War Unjust

The Civil War had a seemingly positive outcome, but it took many brutal battles and inequitable decisions to get there. Therefore, the Civil War was an unjust war. Innocent people were affected negatively by the war. Sherman’s March destroyed innocent Southerner’s land and property, and Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. Even though there were many negative effects of the Civil War, slavery was abolished by the end of the war. Firstly, the Civil War was unjust because Sherman’s March to the Sea destroyed the property and land of innocent citizens in the South. In 1864, General William Tecumseh led Sherman’s March into the South to capture Atlanta, Georgia. The Union forces destroyed farms, property, and railroads, and citizens could be killed if they protested. The Union had no right to destroy the property of innocent citizens, even if they were siding with the Confederacy. Many people in the South took no part in the war, and should not have been punished for something that was not their fault in any way. Sherman’s tactics were brutal and inequitable, and destroyed the economy and land where the armies were led. The citizens affected by Sherman’s March to the Sea had their property, food, and livestock taken from them without assent, and many lost all they had to the Union forces. Sherman’s march greatly …show more content…
People were treated like property and were legally owned. Slavery was completely unjust, and no person should live as someone else's property. Moreover, even though slavery was terminated with the end of the war, the negative effects of the Civil War outweigh the positive effects. Slavery would have died out even if the war had not taken place because of modernization and the end of the Industrial Revolution. There would no longer be any need for it, and it would have gradually come to an end. Many innocent people were affected negatively by the