Met Example
5/19/14
Mr. Taylor
Social studies
CIVIL WAR
Did you know that the civil war was the bloodiest war in US history? I was not in the
civil war but I car for the people that fought in the civil war. Many people in my family support
the soldiers that were over there. The civil war impacted at lot of people. Women, soldiers,
and children that cared for the people over in the civil war.
First the women had an impact on our lives today. According to warren “when men
went off to war, many women took over their roles at home.” Also, according to warren “while
2,000 women are thought to have been nurses in both the north and south during the war
countless others volunteered in hospitals and military camps and took the sick and injured into
their own homes.” And also according to warren “An estimated 600 women dressed in uniform
and passed as men to fight alongside their male comrades.” “In the 1860’s around the globe,
laws and customers prohibited women from taking part in the war.” (Stanchak) The women did
a lot of roles in the household.
Second the soldiers had an impact on the world today. According to Morris, “thunders
of cannon fire echoed through the otherwise peaceful hill side of the united states during the
civil war.” Also according to Morris “a schism ripped through American politics so deeply that it
trickled down into families, turned both brothers against brothers and fathers against sons.”
“Days before Lincoln announced the emancipation proclamation confederate general Robert E.
Lee assaulted General George b McClellan in the first major battle on northern soil and one of
the civil war’s bloodiest battle killing approx. 23,000 people.”(Morris) “Life was not easy after
the war soldiers-if they returned home they were usually injured or came home to a disheveled
town.”(Morris) “A wounded young confederate soldier from Louisiana met his untimely death
from home at the hands of the enemy. Union soldiers careless and mockingly disposed of his
body on the riverbank of Owensboro Kentucky.”(Macon)
Last the children. “Tens of thousands of children lost their fathers in the civil war. The
Kentucky female orphan school in midway cared for 46 girls in 1858.”(Warren) “By 1871 it had
doubled because of war orphans.”(Warren) “On Occasion a boy would enter with the blessings
of one or both parents.”(Murphy) “My father was there and objected to my going so they
scratched my name out which humiliated me somewhat.”(Murphy) “My sister gave me a
severer calling before the public and calling me a little snotty boy, which raised my
anger.”(Murphy) “He told his parents he was going to a dance in town. Then he persuaded a
friend’s father a captain in the union army to accompany him to a nearby recruitment
center.”(Murphy)
The civil war impacted a lot of people. The women were greatly impacted. Also the
children was impacted some had to live their life without their fathers. The soldiers were also
impacted there was a lot that died and a lot that lived.
Works Cited page
Warren, Andrea, Under Siegel! : Three Children at the war battle for Vicksburg. New York:
Melianie Kroupay 2009 print
Murphy, Jim. The boy’s war.confederate and union soldiers talked about the civil war, New York
City:clarion 1990 print.
Baicker, Karen P. Diary of a Georgia girl “Primary Sources for their interactive White board. New
York City: scholastic 5011.n. pag.Print
Stanchak, John. Eye witness books.civil war. Revised .New York: DK, 2011.Print.
Macon,Edna.s. And Mollie Moorehead.” An unknown solider: Private John.A.Kile UDC Magazine
09 2000:19 Print
Morris Robert. Owensboro homefront: snapshot of how local families supported our Troops our
country and each other during various war times—from the U.S. civil war to the Persian Gulf
War Owensboro: messenger. Inguirer.2007. print