Civil War: Chapter Analysis

Throughout America's life as a country, we as a nation have gone through many troubling times. March of 1865 is very important to us as a country because many outcomes could have came out of this month; such as having slaves in our present, or having a our nation split in two and higher taxing. Throughtout this book, four major points are reviewed with its various important actions that shaped this country. The war can be viewed in several different ways: as the final, a violent phase in a conflict of two regional subcultures, etc.
However you interpreted it, the Civil War stands as a story of great heroism, sacrifice, triumph, and tragedy.

The first chapter is about how important tactical decisions can win a country and a war. With
Northern voters overwhelmingly encouraged the leadership and policies of President Abraham Lincoln when they elected for his second term. "Lincoln had managed to win the necessary electoral college, getting a handy 180 votes, and carrying all but one of the free states. But this was misleading: he won only because it was a four-way race, and the Southern vote was split amoung two other candidates who had denied Douglas the chance to run as the only true 'national candidate'."1 With being reelected Lincoln was faced with many challenges. Surprisingly after this, major things happened with both sides of the war. The south's military started to decline and the north was exhausted. As Jay Winik said in the book the Confederates we "as aggressive as ever," but if that would be true (which it is not), the south wouldn't be facing a decline in the numbers for their
His stories were intened for national standards, let alone international ones were impressive. He uses first hand knowledge on why 20th century Civil wars followed. And why a cycle of endless bloodshed occured. In the case we found a surprising split for the United States of reconciliation immediately after the Appomattox. The survival of the United States as one nation was at risk. We come to find out in Winik's writing from the book that Reconstruction isnt easy, he writes "Yet Reconstruction is complex, it is nuanced, and , to later generations almost wholly baffling and prone to being misunderstood.The popular conception is that Reconstruction was to commence at war's end."2 Acknowledgeing the awful, violent, bitter political fights that accured and continued during the Reconstruction - over the four million freed slaves status particulary - and an entire nation was released from the oppressive weight of slavery. We believe that when Abraham Lincoln pleas for his second inaugral address, hoping for compassion and forgiveness, Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman generously gives in terms, but Robert E. Lee use guerilla warefare as a refusal which created an atmosphere that ultimately led to a lasting peace. Because this was where and how Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appmattox Courthouse, ending the American Civil War. As