After reading about 20 pages of my Social Studies textbook on the Civil War my father seemed to not believe me and wanted me to talk about it for this post. So that's exactly what I am going to be typing about. I am deciding not to go onto Google because technically that doesn't prove that I read, but that means that I can't tell you when exactly the Civil War happened because the textbook doesn't say (at least from where I started reading). However, it does explain that the first "battle" took place at Fort Sumter on 1861, I thought that the war took place in the 1700s but technically since that was the first fight it could be counted as the start of the war. The battle was taken by the confederates (rebels) and everyone that supported the Patriots were really getting their hopes down, since Fort Sumter was iconic.
Then again, one battle doesn't decide the fate of a war that almost lasted 4 years, unless it's like at the base of either side, then that's just a win win for the attackers. Anyway, this battle made Lincoln recgonize the states as being "rebels" and opposing the patriots. He didn't want slavery and saw it as a bad thing, just like the rest of his former colleages. So that was when the Union intiated their first attack, since technically the confederates surprised the Union (they were still deciding whether to start the war). From then on, many small and major battles took place. And many great generals lead their troops into battle, only to recieve loss after loss after loss. In the end, the Union was starting to win, the confederates had a good early start, especially since the Union's general's weren't exactly the best (mainly the troops who were not trained properly).
Soon enough, the final battle took place, the battle of "Gettysburg". Stonewall Jackson, one of the best, if not the best general of the confederate army surrender after seeing his allies die one by one in front of him. The man was very well known from both sides and they respected his bravery and stragetic thinking. But the tensions between the two sides were still very high, even now because you still see confederate flags in homes and some people even saw this on the news. My teacher was very specfic of that and said that he was thinking the news reporters purposely saw this flag and decided to capture it on tape as a sign of racism. Anyway, that is it for today's post.
Then again, one battle doesn't decide the fate of a war that almost lasted 4 years, unless it's like at the base of either side, then that's just a win win for the attackers. Anyway, this battle made Lincoln recgonize the states as being "rebels" and opposing the patriots. He didn't want slavery and saw it as a bad thing, just like the rest of his former colleages. So that was when the Union intiated their first attack, since technically the confederates surprised the Union (they were still deciding whether to start the war). From then on, many small and major battles took place. And many great generals lead their troops into battle, only to recieve loss after loss after loss. In the end, the Union was starting to win, the confederates had a good early start, especially since the Union's general's weren't exactly the best (mainly the troops who were not trained properly).
Soon enough, the final battle took place, the battle of "Gettysburg". Stonewall Jackson, one of the best, if not the best general of the confederate army surrender after seeing his allies die one by one in front of him. The man was very well known from both sides and they respected his bravery and stragetic thinking. But the tensions between the two sides were still very high, even now because you still see confederate flags in homes and some people even saw this on the news. My teacher was very specfic of that and said that he was thinking the news reporters purposely saw this flag and decided to capture it on tape as a sign of racism. Anyway, that is it for today's post.
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