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in the war effort on the Confederate side during the Civil War? How did
the war affect each group?
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What roles did Black slaves play in the Civil War? What roles did
free Blacks play in the Civil War? How did the war affect each group?
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HIS 110 Week 5 Learning Team Civil War Paper and
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Over 600,000 Americans lost their lives in the Civil War, with the
Northern troops suffering higher losses. The North believed the sacrifice
was worth it; the slaves were freed, and the Union was preserved. The
South, on the other hand, began almost immediately to glorify the lost
cause. They turned their generals into mythic heroes and looked
wistfully back at the antebellum period. They almost regretted
surrendering.
Historian Shelby Foote said,
Any understanding of this nation has to be based…on an
understanding of the Civil War . . . The Civil War defined us as what
we are, and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad
things. It is very necessary if you’re going to understand the
American character in the 20th century to learn about this enormous
catastrophe of the mid-19th century. It was the crossroads of our
being.