Philosophies Of The Civil War

The American civil war happened between the north and the south due to the fact that they had different philosophies. Abraham Lincoln who was the president at the time was the leader for the north union, and Jefferson Davis was President for the confederacy and who also led the confederate army to fight against the north. The civil war may have ended years ago but it is still an issue we are dealing with to this day. Even though the confederates lost the war to the Union, there are people in this country that still live by the confederate point of view and refuse to accept the modern ways of life. Proof of this hateful point of view has lately become a hot topic again within some of our states. Just recently a tragic event occurred where a

Lincoln was the president during the war from 1860 to 1865. He was also commander –in-chief of the Union Army. In 1863 he issued the Emancipation Proclamation which declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free, which later help end slavery in the United States. Abraham Lincoln was later assassinated on April 14th, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth at a theatre in Washington DC; this was only five days after the confederates surrendered to the Union. Ulysses S. Grant was the Union general and leader of the Union Army. Grant was trained at the military Academy at west point, New York. He was a second Lieutenant in the army during the Mexican –American war, where he later went home to his family in 1854. When the civil war began in 1860 the north was losing many battles due to the lack of military training, due to this issue Grant took it upon himself to reenter the army for the second time. General Robert E. Lee, The leader of the Confederate Army had to surrender to General Grant in 1865. People remember him as a great war hero; they felt he did more as a leader than he did as a president. Another heroic leader that stuck with the Union from the first conflict at Bull Run up until the last summer of the war was Ambrose Burnside. Ambrose Burnside took control of the Army of the Potomac and had to use untrained troops in some of his battles due to commands from

For abolitionists, however, ending slavery was the reason for the war, and they argued that black people should be able to join the fight for their freedom. However, African Americans were not allowed to serve as soldiers in the union army until January 1, 1863. On that day , the emancipation proclamation decreed that “such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed services of the united states”. Early in February 1863, the abolitionist Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts issued the Civil War’s first call for black soldiers. Massachusetts did not have many African-American residents, but by the time 54th Infantry regiment headed off to training camp two weeks later more than 1,000 men had volunteered. Many came from other states, such as New York, Indiana and Ohio; some even came from Canada. One-quarter of the volunteers came from slave states and the Caribbean. Fathers and sons (some as young as 16) enlisted together. The most famous enlistees were Charles and Lewis Douglass, two sons of the abolitionist Frederick