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Native Americans: A Study Of Their Civil War Experience, Ashley Dunbar
Native Americans: A Study Of Their Civil War Experience, Ashley Dunbar
Journal of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research
Native Americans played a vital role in the history of the United States of America. During the unrest and upheaval of the Civil War, many Native Americans pledged their allegiance to the Union or Confederacy. The Native Americans assembled armies and participated in the battles. Their loyalty was important, as the Union and Confederacy recognized that Native American involvement could influence the war’s outcome.The war also affected the Native Americans—during the war they faced division among their tribes while endeavoring to make ends meet; after the war, they struggled to exist without slavery while coping with broken promises and …
Civil War Attitudes As Seen In Children’S Media And Toys, Andrea De Melo
Civil War Attitudes As Seen In Children’S Media And Toys, Andrea De Melo
Journal of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research
In an age when children were urged to be “seen and not heard,” some of the faint voices of children during the Civil War survived to give a picture of their lives. Children played many roles in the Civil War; some children became Civil War soldiers, while other children stayed home but never escaped the image of the brave examples of drummer boys embodied in countless poems, literature, and pictures. The children were part of a culture that devoured even the youngest citizens of the war-torn nation during the Civil War. Today through their writings and other primary documents, we …