Sri Lankan Civil War

The Causes of the Civil War by Kenneth Stampp (Editor), Michael F. Holt (Designed by), James M. McPherson (Designed by). The Author's thesis in this book was that slavery was not a cause of the war. He calls attention to how current understanding of the world and the outcome of the war allows people to unwisely assign a moral purpose to the hostilities that only gradually developed during the conflict. He reminds the reader that history is untidy, that the causes of the war are complex, and that…

Many people were affected by the Civil War. These groups of people were Women, Soldiers, African Americans, children, medical staff and the leaders. I think that the soldiers,children and women were the most impacted. They suffered a lot and had to do things they usually would not do. I’ll show and tell you how they were affected. The women had to do what the men were supposed to do. They made clothes and other supplies and they also shipped the supplies. Some women would write to lonely…

are many properties that make the story a good read. The major plot in this story contains the main character, Henry Fleming otherwise known as “the youth”, finding the courage in himself to fight in the Civil War that is taking place while also discovering himself and his capabilities as the war has changed him. Leading up to this major plot are many subplots which help form him into what he is at the end of the story. The subplots consist of Henry enlisting into the army, deserting his fellow…

know what happened during the Civil War but what most people don’t know is what they used to fight it. There were many different technologies used in the Civil War but they all changed the war. Now let take a look at what they were. Now let's talk about the most commonly used technology the musket. The musket where used on both sides of the war and where issued to every type of soldier. The typical soldier carried the Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle musket during the war. These muskets could carry…

Total war, a term that can be used to describe the most detrimental aspects of the Civil War. It bred mass destruction and unrestricted chaos that marked it as one of the worst American wars. However, although it contained deadly battles and disunity that engrossed the nation, it propagated individuals that would set a precedent for what it means to be an honorable leader. In the Civil War novel, The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara, Union leader Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain and Confederate…

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…

The Killer Angels provided me with many interesting facts about the civil war. It really makes you think deeper into how bad their wounds were and especially how to cure them. Those men went into the battlefield, not knowing if they were going to walk out alive or not. One of the reasons why is because the medical field wasn't as advanced as it is now. Some doctors didn’t even know what they were doing, so you were lucky if you were in the hands of someone who did know. When a soldier was…

There were many groups present in the Civil War. Of these many groups, there were three I found most interesting. The three I found most interesting are; medical staff, leaders and African Americans. The first group that I will be discussing is the medical staff. Most of the Civil War medical staff were inexperienced. Only 500 of the 11,000 Union surgeons had actually performed surgery prior to the war and the most popular surgery was amputation. This is why surgeons during this time…

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…

Civil War Medical Technology Civil war medical technology was not very good during the awful war of 1861-1865. With small shanty medical kits that were not adequate for the job that surgeons had ahead of them tools in the medical kit helped transmit diseases that were lethal. Weapons were being engineered to become more lethal and or more painful [also built to explode so it was harder for medical surgeons to save the soldier]. Transportation was also dominant problem that hurt both the…