When
learning about the civil war it is important to address the question of
whether, the civil war was worth it or not??? However to answer this question
you must analyze the different battles that took place during the Civil War,
and the battle of Gettysburg was by far the worst. The battle took place over a
span of three days and was the bloodiest with 51,000 casualties. The North and
the South both took their armies to face each other head to head in
Pennsylvania. Both sides of the battle did not plan for the war; however it was
a result of the south trying to sneak behind the mountains and take control of Pennsylvania,
to gain leverage so the North leaves them alone. The South got cutoff and from
there took off the battle of Gettysburg. Over the course of the three days the
North and South fought from dusk to dawn and neither side would give up easily because
they knew the cost of this war. They knew that whoever was to win this battle would
undoubtedly, win the war. The south realized that they lost the war when Picket
said to General Lee said, “I have no division to form.” To commemorate the
lives lost in the battle on the North side, the first National cemetery was
built on November 19, 1863. Lincoln also made the speech of the Gettysburg address
this day. Although the battle of Gettysburg was a bloody one, it was worth it because
Lincoln said something along the lined of, that God would make every man pay
for the lashes of the slaves with a slash of the sword. It was worth it because
of the nation that America became today.
Your opinion of whether the battle was worth fighting for is quite interesting. It gave me a new perspective on this topic.
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