Confederate and Union Soldiers

Confederate and Union Soldiers

Introduction

The study is related union and confederate soldiers which particularly focus on the personality, character, similarities and differences and the perceptions of union and confederate over the civil war. In this context, the Civil War marked as one of the great important moments in U.S. history. Long-simmering sectional tensions had a critical stage in 1860-61 when eleven slaveholding states separated and formed the Confederate States of America. Political disagreement led towards a war situation in April 1861, as Confederates affirmed their commitment towards the right of leaving the Union and the loyal states did not give them permission to go. There was a not a single factor in nations' history that prepared Americans for the high scale of military fury and social disruption that continued for a certain period of time. Four years of fighting claimed more than one million military casualties of whom at least 620,000 died, which directly created an impact on lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians, and freed 4 million enslaved African Americans. The social and economic system was based on chattel slavery that the seceding states had sought to protect lay in ruins. The Union had been preserved, and the supremacy of the national government over the individual states had been confirmed. In the longer term, the North's victory made possible the American economic and political colossus that figured so prominently in 20th century history (Mitchell, 1997). Therefore, all the issues related to Civil War in USA will be discussed in detail.

Discussion

Confederate Soldiers

The system of manning the Confederate Army almost did not differ from the Union Army. South is only 1 million 140 thousands of white men aged 15 to 40 years and have used this resource to its full capacity in 1862; "under the gun" was one million men. But the army of the South as the spring snow melting and by the time the cause of the Confederacy's surrender served a total of 100 thousand people.

The War in the South began to speak long before it started, and preparations for it began simultaneously with secession. Veterans of the Mexican War, who lived in the South of 40,000 (out of 50 who participated in the war), led a militia organization of the mouth. And when March 6, 1861 Jefferson Davis announced the call for 100,000 volunteers for a period of service for 1 year, the governors had only to bring these companies into regiments and pass the president (Mitchell, 1997).

The number of potential Confederate soldiers grew steadily and the government was soon forced to stop recruitment. The reason for that scarce supply of arms and ammunition during the war is the volunteers were 642 infantry, 137 cavalry and 16 artillery regiments. In the South, and had its own small regular army, which consisted of an artillery battery, 12 regiments of cavalry and 7 infantry regiments.

As in the North, the South enthusiasm that gripped the population in 1861 sharply receded after the first ...