Life In The South During The Civil War

The Civil War was a war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War) between the north and south. The north was fighting to outlaw slavery and the south was fighting to keep it. Although conditions were bad the north generally had better conditions during this war. Many people suffered because of the Civil war and not just soldiers fighting. “The Civil War caused difficulties for the people at home as well as the soldiers. Although the North endured hardships as well, Southerners suffered especially because most of the fighting took place on Southern soil.” (http://twinkle.bangtech.com/american/civilian_life_during_civil_war.htm )
Children in the north helped to support the union troops
The teachers started having lessons on patriotism to the north or south. Before the civil war most school textbooks were printed from the north but the south started to print their own, pushing kids to develop patriotism for the south. (http://twinkle.bangtech.com/american/civilian_life_during_civil_war.htm) As the war went on public support weakened on both sides. Both sides started to have a shortage of soldiers willing to fight in the war. To fix this problem congress made a draft law. This law said that all healthy men between the ages of twenty to forty-five to serve in the war if they were needed. People who refused to be in the war could buy their way out by either paying the government $300 or hiring someone to serve in their place which was hard to do. This angered many people. In the south when they drafted soldiers any man who owned 20 or more slaves didn't have to serve in the war. When they ran out of people to draft, the Confederacy (south) desperately decided to recruit slaves. But before they even had a chance to fight, the war already ended. (http://twinkle.bangtech.com/american/civilian_life_during_civil_war.htm) Instead of just men working in factories, women and