1.) Over six hundred and twenty thousand soldiers were killed in the Civil War. It is the highest death toll of American Soldiers in any war. “Popular interest in the Civil War surpassses that for any other event in American history.” Many people are interested in it because of the bloody battles that were faught.
2.) To many historians, the Civil War, is known as the first modern war because cameras enabled the events to be captured and saved unlike previous wars where there are no pictures, only written records and drawings. The slaughterhouse aspect is one factor that draws people to the Civil War. Issues that were also at stake included slavery, self-government, and the survival of the United States.
3.) Videos and film played a large role during World War II and the Vietnam War. Throughout World War II, short, seven to ten minute, black and white films were played in the American theaters to bring news from the front lines home. Then, during the Vietnam War film footage was broadcasted in vivid color on the television. Vietnam was America’s first television was.
4.) Civil War soldiers were equipt with weapons that were capable of producing more casualties the General Washington’s soldiers during the Revolutionary War. Union and Confederate soldiers had rifles with effective aim and nearly six times better than the men in the Continental Army.
5.) The Revolutionary War was a civil war within a civil war. The Anglo-Americans were fighting the British while the American Tories and the Whigs faught one another. On top of that, the civilians had vendettas against one another. General Nathaneal Greene, the last commander of the Continental army in the South, said that Southern civilians “persecute each other, with little less than savage fury. There is nothing but murders and decastations in every quarter."
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