HILD 2A-B-C Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Desertion, Big Country
5 Mar 2018
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South slaves struggled to make war about slavery until ep signed. 8000 black soldiers helped defined terms of freedom in their fight (like demanding equal pay) and helped union win. Civil war: low tech fight, no tanks, no airpower but most costly american lives war (600-700k. North suffered most casualties by numbers but proportionally more deaths of south. O confederate soldiers died, twice as much for north. Bodies went unbried for weeks (cid:824)burying skeletons on battlefield(cid:825) Added war intensity because was a conflict between two civilizations. 1863: ep signed -- civil war became social revolution (slaves) North had statistical advantage: majority of wealth, population, more industrialized than south. South(cid:821)s wealth counted as land and number of slaves especially with cotton boom. Ietnam war and american "evolution analogous to south(cid:821)s vision of the war. Saw confederate as the smaller, weak military power to keep fighting until big country got worn out and public opinion shifted.
