From 1861 to 1865, approximately 620,000 soldiers' lives were cut short, not to mention the 50,000 civilian lives that were also claimed. Soldiers lost during that time exceeded the combination of soldiers lost from the Revolutionary War, both World Wars, the Korean War, the Mexican War, and even the Spanish-American War. In comparison to today's population, six million people would die in four years or two percent of our population. The impact of death on the human capital grew in importance. It became familiar in fact, a part of daily life for Americans at that time.
The aftermath of the war was a complete an utter devastation when it came to casualties. The Civil War was documented as the deadliest in American History it caused about 620,000 soldiers death and an undetermined amount of civilian causalities; it ended slavery, restored the Union, and strengthened the role of the federal government. General Grant and General Lee were both graduates of West Point. General Lee graduated from West Point in 1829 second in his class and General Grant graduated in 1843 twenty-first in his class. While both great generals started, their military careers the same way the rest of their careers were very different.
In thirty-six days there were nearly twenty-six thousand US casualties, almost seven thousand American troops were KIA (Hama, Erksine and Williams 98). 22,000 Japanese troops were sent to battle, with a result of only five hundred survivors. The Battle of Iwo Jima and World War II in general changed many people’s lives. Many were killed, many loved ones had died and many were mentally moved. The Flag Raising at Iwo Jima taken by Joe Rosenthal helped those people who lost and helped Americans get through this war.
Captain Armes and his crew of 36 fought 300 Indians. They fought for six hours before the troops retreated; the result was Sergeant W. Christy killed while Captain Armes was injured. Less than a month later he joined forces with 90 more men and they fought 500 Indians. The result of the wounded and killed was higher than the first. In 1867 they received all of their field officers, which filled up the last of the field and staff vacancies.
When Forscyth's troops surrounded Black Coyote to disarm the man, Black Coyote's gun fired off and caused the troops to fire their weapons at other Indians, thus triggering the massacre. The massacre lasted for less than an hour, but the death toll was high, with 150 Lakota dead and 50 wounded. The siege of Wounded Knee occurred over 80 years later in the year 1973. Before the siege started, members of the Lakota tribe, whose ancestors were involved in the Wounded Knee massacre, and other tribes decided to meet in order to discuss issues such as high unemployment rates and the policies of the Federal Government concerning the tribes. This meeting formed the American Indian Movement, or AIM.
DBQ: What Cause The Civil War Hell breaks loose, and in the space of sound in the western woods along bloody lane 600,000 bodies lay dead. In the early morning of September 17, 1862 dawn is breaking a troops are squaring off against each other. Antietam is just one day in war that by 1865 over 600,000 yankee and rebel’s lives are taken away. The north and south both feared that one would over power another. Who is the person or event responsible for a war between regions of the same country?
“Once an Army has taken the field no medical function is more important than the care of the wounded.” (Doctors in Blue, Adams, p59) The Battle of Kelly’s Ford was one of the early, large scale cavalry battles of the American Civil War. It would set the stage for other battles such as, Brandy Station and the Gettysburg campaign. After the withdrawal of the Union troops the casualty count was somewhere around 130 on the Rebel side and approximately 70 on the Union side. Among those wounded was a young Lieutenant Nathaniel Bowditch. He was shot in the abdomen, during the first Union charge after they crossed the Rappahannock in pursuit of the Rebels.
On the morning of December 29, 1890, soldiers from the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, the unit made world-famous only fifteen years earlier by its defeat under General George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, opened fire on a band of Minneconjou and Hunkpapa Sioux who they had detained and were in the process of disarming. Over several hours, the men of the Seventh indiscriminately killed about 250 people, more than half of who were women, children and elderly, and crushed the spiritual movement known as the Ghost Dance. The Wounded Knee Massacre unquestionably stands as one of the darkest moments in the relationship between Native Americans and the United States government, yet most scholarship on the subject either limits its scope to the individuals directly involved in the affair and the tactics employed or presents the slaughter as a turning point in a longer history of U.S. aggression towards the native people of the Great Plains.
Then the rioters turned their murderous wrath against the black community (Bernstein 3). By the end of the riots on July 16-17 1863, at least 105 people were killed (Bernstein 259). This is one example of how American citizens acted toward the draft and their retaliation against it. When a national tragedy strikes, the number of citizens volunteering for military service seems to go up. This was the case after both Pearl Harbor and Sept. 11 (Rich and Gerson 1).
In 1861, the United States entered into the Civil War, one of the bloodiest wars in history where over 500,000 soldiers died fighting to address slavery. The protest against slavery actually began well before this war through the written word. Three novels that had the most impact on the views of the American citizens include The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglas, Incidents of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The first two books were autobiographies of the authors who both were former slaves and they give a detailed description of their difficult and cruel life. Both of these books were well read and discussed.