How was the fighting of the Civil War brutal?
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It was American against American and sometimes brother against brother. The death toll was out of control.
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Think of the coldest, wettest and most miserable you have ever been.  Multiply by a hundred.  You should get a rough idea.  \n\nNapoleon took his army into Russia too close to winter and in the end, they were faced by a worse enemy than the Russian forces: Russian weather.\n\nThe troops were alway hungry, facing a tough, determined enemy and a climate that French soldiers were not even close to being ready to face.  \n\nIt was so bad that a large portion of the surviving Frenchmen went home without even boots on their feet and only socks and strips of old blankets to prevent them from losing their feet as they marched on.
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The American Civil War (1861-1865) had the most fatalities because all the fatalities were American. The approximate number of deaths on both sides was 620,000.
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1.  The most experiencd generals in the war were in the Confederate Army\n\n2. Soldiers were not experienced at using guns and riding horses\n\n3. Not all the soldiers spoke English.\n\n4. The north was not familiar with the land they were fighting in.\n\n5. The Union army had to use soldiers to fight against Indians, and to manage the southern cities they took over.\n\n6. Some northerners were against the war, and Lincoln even imprisoned some legislators in Maryland who would have voted against staying in the Union.
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Bloody Kansas participant, pretty much violent and deranged. He hated slavery and wanted to get all the slaves to go against the whites (even though Brown was a white). Go Russia!
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The Wheather Bureau has all the records you need. However you need to know what location you are describing.Than find out what the nuances of wheather where and what catastrophies occurred.\nThe Civil war Was fought in the South Hence a southern weather.The North had weather with snow in the winter and this south very  warm in the summer.\nThe real scenario where wheather was a key factor in a WAR was that of Napoleon's Army in Russia.The other USA army in Korea.And Valley forge in The Revolution against the Briths.
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Try here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
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What aspect of the Civil War do you want facts about? The causes, battles, leaders, industry? You should be a little more specific with your question.
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Terrible.  Bitterly cold.  Overrun with disease.\n\nMany, many deaths due to starvation, freezing, and disease.
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"Godoompah" & "Starry Eyes" are correct.  The Civil War was an unmitigated disaster for both sides.  If that doesn't make sense to you; if you really can't understand how both sides could lose, then just try this simple three-step process....\n\n1) Open your eyes and read the deathtoll:\n    \n    120,000 killed in action \n    240,000 died of other causes \n  ~360,000 TOTAL Union dead and/or missing \n\n     95,000 killed in action \n   165,000 died of other causes \n ~260,000 TOTAL Confederate dead and/or missing \n\n  ~620,000 Union and Confederate soldiers \n   UNKNOWN total Northern and Southern civilian\n   casualties \n  \n2) Open your mind and think about it....\n\n3) Open your heart and feel about it....\n\nIf you really do this, neither the Civil War nor any of the other Overklass-generated orgies of mass murder will ever look the same again.....\n\nBefore some damn fool says so, I'm not a pacifist, a communist, or even a liberal ; I'm just a middle-aged guy who lived long enough to see through some of the crap our Beloved Leaders keep throwing at us to keep us all permanently mind-f***ed....\n\nNimadan
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There were 2 battles here. It was also called the Battle of Manassass. It was the first land battle of the Civil war. The Union troops were inexperienced,and forced to retreat. For more info I added the link
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They fought, sewed clothes and took care of families and soldiers, and fought, respectively.  \n\nThis is a hugely broad question that entire books have been written about individually, so a little additional research might behoove you.
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general for the conferacy during the civil war. he was in many battles.
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i would recommend this wikipedia site.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war\n\nhope this helps =)\n\n-unpredicktaboh-
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The Civil War was caused by a myriad of conflicting pressures, principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences and pride, and set into motion by a most unlikely set of political events.\n\nAt the root of all of the problems was the institution of slavery, which had been introduced into North America in early colonial times. The American Revolution had been fought to validate the idea that all men were created equal, yet slavery was legal in all of the thirteen colonies throughout the revolutionary period. Although it was largely gone from the northern states by 1787, it was still enshrined in the new Constitution of the United States, not only at the behest of the Southern ones, but also with the approval of many of the Northern delegates who saw that there was still much money to be made in the slave trade by the Yankee shipping industry. Eventually its existence came to color every aspect of American life.\n\nAt the Constitutional Convention there were arguments over slavery. Representatives of the Northern states claimed that if the Southern slaves were mere property, then they should not be counted toward voting representation in Congress. Southerners, placed in the difficult position of trying to argue, at least in this case, that the slaves were human beings, eventually came to accept the three-fifths compromise, by which five slaves counted as three free men toward that representation. By the end of the convention the institution of slavery itself, though never specifically mentioned, was well protected within the body of the Constitution.\n\nIt seemed to Thomas Jefferson and many others that slavery was on its way out, doomed to die a natural death. It was becoming increasingly expensive to keep slaves in the agrarian society of the south. Northern and Southern members of Congress voted together to abolish the importation of slaves from overseas in 1808, but the domestic slave trade continued to flourish. The invention of the cotton gin made the cultivation of cotton on large plantations using slave labor a profitable enterprise in the deep South. The slave became an ever more important element of the southern economy, and so the debate about slavery, for the southerner, gradually evolved into an economically based question of money and power, and ceased to be a theoretical or ideological issue at all. It became an institution that southerners felt bound to protect.\n\nBut even as the need to protect it grew, the ability, or at least the perceived ability of the South to do so was waning. Southern leaders grew progressively more sensitive to this condition. In 1800 half of the population of the United States had lived in the South. But by 1850 only a third lived there and the disparity continued to widen. While northern industrial opportunity attracted scores of immigrants from Europe in search of freedom the South's population stagnated. Even as slave states were added to the Union to balance the number of free ones, the South found that its representatives in the House had been overwhelmed by the North’s explosive growth. More and more emphasis was now placed on maintaining parity in the Senate. Failing this, the paranoid theory went, the South would find itself at the mercy of a government in which it no longer had an effective voice. Never mind that slavery was protected under the constitution, and that it would have been impossible to make amendments to abolish it. Jefferson Davis, at the time a Senator from Mississippi, summed up the sectionalist argument himself. Speaking, in effect, to the people of the North concerning slavery, “It is not humanity that influences you… it is that you may have a majority in the Congress of the United States and convert the Government into an engine of Northern aggrandizement… you want by an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the United States at the expense of the people of the South.” There, in plain English, is the shrill, accusat
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during the civil war many of the stated split into two.  Half of the state joined the Union, and the other half the Confederacy.
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Basically it was bad! Punishment was very harsh - there were 3 ordeals to test if a person was guilty of a crime - that was the closest people got to a trial. 1. fire (hold a red hot poker - a few days later, if your hand was healing you were innocent, if it wasn't you were guilty) 2. Water (be tied up, thrown in water - if you drown your innocent, if you float you're guilty - and probably will be killed another way) 3. Combat - for lords mainly (they'd fight to the death). Thieves had their hands cut off. Prisons were expensive so criminals were mutilated and then set free as a warning. \nDisease was everywhere and medical treatment was harsh - if you had a headache it was suspected as demons and evil spirits in the head - you'd have a hole driled into your skull and a part of your brain cut out to release the demons. Other 'treatments included leeches and blood letting to release bad blood. \n\nCheck the site below for links to lots more info