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A 9 page paper which examines why Americans were motivated to engage in such a prolonged war, using as a primary source James McPherson’s historical text, “For Cause and Comrades.” Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Colvill attacked the enemy on a place known as Cemetery Ridge, where they were committed to defiantly make one last stand against their combatants, 1,600 equally determined soldiers who were
also fighting to the death far from their Alabama homes.1 Amazingly, they managed to prolong the inevitable for 10 minutes, but only 41 of those 262 gallant men would
escape harm.2 This was just one of many heroic efforts during a civil war that would rage along the Mason-Dixon line for four agonizing years, from April 12, 1861
until April 9, 1865. The United States of America has never known anything like the Civil War before or since, a virtually nonstop conflict of unparalleled ferocity that claimed
620,000 lives and destroyed $1.5 billion in property.3 There was so much intense carnage and bloodshed on the battlefields "that soldiers shrank from the realization that they could walk
on corpses from one end of the battle lines to the other."4 This remains the most savage period in American history, and within this four-year time span, the number
of men who gave their lives "is approximately equal to American fatalities in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World
War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of the twenty-first century to comprehend what it was that would incite people to fight
so hard and so long before one side would concede defeat. Therefore, it has been left to the historians to answer that still ever-elusive question of Why? and to
provide some insights as to what motivated and sustained the antagonism for such a long time. Arriving at a historical consensus has proven to be almost as difficult as forcing
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