Angolan Civil War

For this paper I will be answering the question, “how did the American Civil War effect Elizabeth Val Lew”. I have always had a strong interest in the Civil War. I am particularly interested in the Battle of Gettysburg and Michigan’s involvement in the war. Recently I have become interested in the role women had during the war as well. During the war many women enlisted in positions that were mainly set aside for men, for example nurses. Some women even disguised themselves as men and fought in…

During this nation’s most costly war, both sides, the Union and the Confederacy, took advantage of brave women willing to support their causes. These women participated in various courageous acts, and succeeded in altering the course of the Civil War. Sarah Emma Edmonds was one of about 400 women who succeeded in joining the Union or Confederate army. From her young life in Canada to her disguises and service in the Union Army, and even to her peaceful post-war life, Edmonds has illustrated a…

for good fortune and well-being and is actually a sacred symbol in the Hindu and Buddhist faiths (thank you Cultural Anthropology class); on the other hand, the confederate flag was simply a battle flag used by the confederate states during the civil war, and not the actual flag of the confederacy which is…

Philadelphia and Astoria, New York. Next came historian Bruce A. Evans, who studied drug therapies during the war in his book, A Primer of Civil War Medicine. Evans’ presents in his argument in a unique and interesting way by presenting “the essentials of medical therapeutics as they would have been summarized by a reasonably well trained mainstream physician during the years of the War Between the States.” A couple of years later came the outstanding, objective, and thoroughly researched…

The Civil War wasn’t all about the male soldiers on the battlefield. There were other soldiers fighting a different battle on the home front, and they were none other than the women. The lives that women lived during this time period are often over looked, but they played a huge role in the war. As noted by the article “Women and the Civil War”, “…when in 1861 the American Civil War broke out between the north and the south, both men and women became deeply involved in the conflict.” (Women and…

evolvement of American literature, we begin to move away from the transcendentalist impressions of writers, and move toward a more realistic notion. The texts and authors of this era were greatly influenced by the circumstances around them: the American Civil War, the rush to the Alaskan Yukon for gold, or the Industrial Revolution, which incited them to see the world in a different light than those before them. To a reader with little to no knowledge on the background of the author or the…

their economy during the Civil war. The south lost its cotton farms, getting rid of their money system. The cotton was mainly in New York with no gold or silver, the south was in trouble. The south had no minerals to create coins and the people of the south did not trust paper money. The government printed paper money and the people would not pay taxes on the paper money. Therefore the states had to raise the taxes for their own people. With so many people gone to fight the war, the crops were…

readers attention through the main character, Henry Fleming. He comes of age after many character building episodes. The time period of the novel is the Civil War and that also adds to the development of the main character. Henry starts off as a coward who goes along with the other soldiers’ actions because of his lack of experience and confidence. The war, his courage, and his sense of duty all play a role in changing Henry Fleming from a coward into a brave man. Henry Fleming comes of age in…

This project will be produced in concert with an honors thesis in history at the University of Iowa. This work produced for publication in the Annals of Iowa will be primarily focused on the accounts of the Iowa soldiers and their motivations for killing the bloodhounds. The wider project will go farther in incorporating the story into the history of Reconstruction South Carolina relying upon the important connection of the same Robert Butler, whose bloodhounds were killed in 1865, being a chief…

Some say the Civil War furthered medical intelligence, others say it prevented people from further study of the medical field. Surgeries back then were brutal and sometimes, unnecessary. Amputations, for example, existed among the army because bullets were stuck in the bones of the soldiers. Medics could not save two-thirds of wounded soldiers because they knew nothing about bacteria and the importance of sanitation. They dressed wounds with the same bandages on different people because the…