Angolan Civil War

families experienced during The Civil War. The Civil War was a time when there was a lot of fighting, not only on the battlefield, but within families as well. Lots of families were split up because husbands and sons were drafted into the war. People’s opposing beliefs on the war divided families. During The Civil War, families were impacted because of the absence of family members, the division of families, and the death of family members. Families during The Civil War were impacted on both…

More Americans have died during the Civil War than any other war. 620,000 soldiers died in the line of duty. Two-thirds of these didn’t die from wounds. They died from diseases such as typhoid and dysentery. Civil War medicine was not yet advanced enough to connect a lack of hygiene with an influx of disease. Lack of hygiene in hospitals and camps also contributed to the spread of disease. Placing a latrine downstream away from the clean water supply was sometimes also overlooked. Disease spread…

The books “Women at the Front” by Jane Schultz and “A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era: Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South” by Libra Hilde, each discuss the many experiences that women went through during their time in the Civil War. Women in the Civil War faced many different challenges, each of these books touch on similar challenges as well as different views on these challenges. Women had to endure more than just the actual caring of wounded soldiers,…

events, and offer a variety of viewpoints. The Civil War museum at Historic Tredegar showcased the two sides that divided and united the United States—the Union and Confederacy, but another side historically neglected, the slaves, and to a lesser extent, women and children. This is shown in the polished and methodical approach the curator uses for the viewers. Two timelines, each displayed on both sides of the path reinforced understanding of the War, with the one on the left opening up to…

I was never one for history, but this book made it digestible to say the least. The Rebels by John Jakes was truly rich not only in its denotation but its connotation as well. In reading this novel, I could not help but to be overcome with emotion as I empathized for the main character, Philip Kent, as he pursued his physical and emotional journey beyond the depths of hardship to preserver as a true patriot. The story starts on June 17, 1775, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, in which Philip Kent…

What was the cause of civil war? The Civil War is a very important and significant part of the history of the the United States. It started in 1861 and ended 1865. There are many causes for the civil war, and started after many years of economical and political problems and differences between the North and the South. Slavery also played a significant in why the war started and played a key roles in political and economical problems. The South depended on growing crops, and cotton was one of…

The Sierra Leone Civil War began in March 1991 and ended in January 2002 after the signing of the Lomé Peace Accord three years earlier and the consolidation of power under President Kabbah. Under Foday Sankoh, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) invaded Sierra Leone in March 1991 from the South in conjunction with Charles Taylor’s NPFL forces, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Momoh’s government. Since the government was unable to respond effectively to the RUF, and since diamond…

The various Civil War stories of Ambrose Bierce look at autonomy from two perspectives supported or suppressed. In two of Bierce’s stories “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “Horseman in the Sky”, both suppressed autonomy. Autonomy affected the characters in some sort of death or loss of a loved one. In one of Bierce’s stories “Occurrence at Owl Creek bridge” it starts off with a man stood upon a railroad bridge ,looking down twenty feet below above water. His wrists were tied together by…

Sierra leone is a very poor country but it has a large amount of diamonds and these diamond should have brought wealth to the country and its people. Instead these diamond were used to fuel a war starting in 1991 to 2001.The people during the blood diamond civil war in sierra leone were used as slave by the R.U.F to mine diamonds and were put through very poor living conditions. This is similar to Wiesel 's experiences in the holocaust in night because he was put into a work camp and was also…

Initially, no one really was in favor of the idea but as the war wore on and more soldiers died, people became more interested in the idea. Abraham Lincoln eventually supported it, understanding that they were willing to fight and taking advantage of that fact. Despite how unpopular the idea was in general, he went ahead and allowed the creation of all-black regiments because he knew that whites were, at this point, uninterested in fighting to free the slaves while the African Americans were…