Slavery: The Role Of Bravery In The Civil War

Nobody ever really realizes how much bravery is put into our history; its almost taken for granted. If you look back onto all the wars and fights between the states, the families being split up because of slavery, and having to fight for the war, there is much bravery to be found. Our forefathers had to have the bravery and they did, Abraham Lincoln did whatever it took to stand up against slavery while trying to keep the Union together.. Our soldiers, they were forced to go to war leave their families to possibly never seeing them again. And lastly us, we had to be brave when this was all happening even if it meant our families splitting apart and never seeing each other again. Through all we had to support our country and stand bravely for
They had to make decisions that would risk our union breaking apart. But they did it, and even though our union did split up, they came back together again. The war was over, we won, slavery was abolished, our unions were together, and though people still didn't give all rights to the African Americans we still continued to fight for their rights. The forefathers have stood strong through all they never gave up, they had hope in our country, and they didn't stop until our union was back together and slavery was abolished. Not only did they stay strong through the war, they stood strong through all the protests and revolts the disagreements, the arguing. For a long time the North and South were arguing and disagreeing between slavery, and soon enough the South broke off, but they stood
The soldiers fought for our country, no matter what. Through the snow and rain they continued and didn't stop. They had barely any food, horrible medical care, diseases. They slept on hard grounds that sometimes were even muddy but still continued. The soldiers had to go through more than that, diseases spread rapidly and there was very little that anyone could do, due to the lack of medicine to cure them. Their hospitals were not really even hospitals they were just tables and you lay on them. If you had something wrong with your foot and they needed to cut it off or disease would spread they had no way of doing that, but using a saw, no pain pills nothing to make it stop hurting. Soldiers had little food and were starving, through the cold winters they had one blanket and if they were lucky a small pillow but they stood tall. Soldiers also had to leave their families and this was called a draft, which meant they were required by law to go and fight for the war. They didn’t want to leave their families, of course, and they did not want to fight either, but though they were sad they continued to fight in honor of keeping them safe. Soldiers were a huge part of the winning of the war and it required a lot of bravery, but they had it, they stood tall no matter the consequences for their