Nigerian Civil War

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…

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…