Why The American Civil War Bloody And Brutal

The Civil War: Bloody and Brutal Union General William T. Sherman once said, “’War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.’” The Civil War was one of the most brutal and relentless wars in American history. The war did not span out for a ten year period, it was only a couple years due to the mass amount of deaths. The Civil War was a successful time period in history that benefitted society by abolishing slavery, uniting a broken country, and sparking the Civil Rights Movement. The American Civil War split a once superior country into two separate nations that fought over slavery. The North, or the Union, was filled with factories and industries, and were strongly against the South and slavery. On the other hand, the South, or the Confederate States of America, was heavily based on farming, plantations, and slavery. Both of these nations were led by different leaders. In the North (Union) it was President Abraham Lincoln, and in the South
Before the Thirteenth Amendment Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in the Confederate States (“Thirteenth Amendment”). This proclamation was the start of the abolishment of slavery because most of the slaves in America were in the South, but it did not go into effect until the Thirteenth Amendment. On April 8, 1864 the thirteenth amendment proposed, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any other subject to their jurisdiction” (“Thirteenth Amendment”). This was not just a battle strategy, like the Emancipation Proclamation, this would be an amendment to the Constitution and this was the first time this would be mentioned in this document. The only time in the constitution was to outlaw