Salvadoran Civil War

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…

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…

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…

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…