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This 4-page paper discusses the different "home fronts" between the North and South during the U.S. Civil War. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the home fronts of both of these "enemies" differed as well. Still, when it came right down to it, much of the home fronts on both ends were characterized by
fear, prayer and hope. Women - and men as well - played different roles, which only made sense. The South continued to
promote its agrarian emphasis - because of this, the pace was somewhat more unhurried. The North, however, was rarely in the direct attack of any armies (except in Washington, D.C.,
and Pennsylvania, which kept things a little different there. Still, life on the home front was no picnic for Northern families - though many of them were not in the
direct line of the war (or troops going AWOL and rampaging the countryside), times were tough both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line.
For one thing, in the South, women were called upon to play roles above and beyond being country belles and running their huge plantations while others did the
dirty work. The war definitely changed things on this end. It wasnt uncommon for Confederate women to plow the fields or oversee the plantations while their menfolk were off fighting.
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et al 136).
Still, most women in the Confederacy ended up staying home and praying for the safety of their men, sitting, doing little and hoping to see their men
come home safe and sound (Clinton et al 136). The "safe and sound" was important - in many cases, these men came home missing various limbs and having to readjust.
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