Posted on 04/27/2013 3:45:10 AM PDT by daniel1212
8 things to think about as we mark the conflict's 150th anniversary.
Some ring strong: of course the end of slavery, perhaps the worst disgrace in the nation's history. And the 620,000 ancestors lost. Other vestiges have weakened with the passage of time but are no less legacies of the four horrific, heroic years that shaped us as one nation.
Here are eight ways the Civil War indelibly changed us and how we live:
1. We have ambulances and hospitals.
The Civil War began during medieval medicine's last gasp and ended at the dawn of modern medicine. Each side entered the war with puny squads of physicians trained by textbook, if at all. Four years later, legions of field-tested doctors, well-versed in anatomy, anesthesia and surgical practice, were poised to make great medical leaps.
The nation's first ambulance corps, organized to rush wounded soldiers to battlefront hospitals and using wagons developed and deployed for that purpose, was created during the Civil War. The idea was to collect wounded soldiers from the field, take them to a dressing station and then transport them to the field hospital.
Doctors laid out the hospitals as camps divided into well-defined wards for specific activities such as surgery and convalescence. Women flocked to serve these hospitals as nurses.
Before the war, most people received health care at home. After the war, hospitals adapted from the battlefront model cropped up all over the country. The ambulance and nurses' corps became fixtures, with the Civil War's most famous nurse, Clara Barton, going on to establish the American Red Cross. Today's modern hospital is a direct descendant of these first medical centers.
(Excerpt) Read more at aarp.org ...
I was taught the country was originally referred to as the united states of America, small u, small s.
It’s probably working well for AARP – their main function is selling insurance.
The buying and selling of people is wrong today although it continues in some parts of the world such as parts of africa and asia
People willingly sold themselves into slavery at many times in many cultures. Greek teachers sold themselves to Roman masters to teach children for example.
Thomas Sowell’s Culture Series of three books takes a definitive look at slavery. Good to have a world wide persective rather than a limited leftist US perspective.
Yes, i was aware of their lib leaning and throw their mail away also, and tried to get a “print view- single page” but to no avail.
The left out the part about the ruling political thought changing from the ideals of the Declaration of Independence to “might makes right”.
That is part of a larger 2nd civil war, an ideological one.
Thanks. Glad to have historian types here.
Me too - not going there.
We don’t toss the aarp mailers - we open them, put all contents including the envelope it in which it arrived and mail it back to them in their postpaid envelope. THEN, we write “TRAITORS” on the outside.
We’ve asked them to stop sending stuff....
I grew up in Appomattox, VA
How long ago did you leave?
For about 20 yrs (79-99), I would go to Appomattox almost every weekend between the third week in November to the first week in Jan. We hunted Cumberland county. Only decent place to eat was in Appomattox.
Was stationed at Ft. Lee (78-79), and we would run the Petersburg National Battlefield at least twice a week. Find minnie balls, pieces of clothing, parts of canteens, etc. all the time.
The whole area is a history lesson.
5.56mm
Christianity is an overcoming faith, one that places the priority on having victorious faith despite circumstances, while as Paul advised, "Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather." (1 Corinthians 7:21) And which liberty he supported in requiring an escaped and converted slaves to be received back as a brother, even as Paul himself. (Philemon)
Note that under the law there was no national debt, and no interest for citizens, with land being given to all and returned after 50 years in case they may have sold it.
Thieves worked to pay for what they stole, and Israelites who went into debt could sell themselves into servitude, but were offered freedom after 6 years, with generous "severance pay." Non Israelites could even own Israelis servants, and sell their own kin into slavery to Israelites, but which was for life and them and for offspring (in a superior nation), unless the owner knocked out a tooth, or likely something similar, while escaped slaves were not to be returned.
Now how would such things as the Madoff investment scandal fit here?
Double Bag Barf Alert.
Yes, the Civil War changed my life. Some of my ancestors were burned out of AL during Reconstruction and went GTT. Other of my ancestors were born here during the Republic of Texas.
It still exists.
It is no longer about race, we now have Universal Slavery. Slavery to the Socialist State.
We still have Free States (relatively) and we still have Slave States (definitely) Example NY, MA, MD, NJ
Where i live i am the minority. Mostly Latin America, plus Cape Verdeans, Algerians, Cambodians, African descent, Somalians (etc.). But typically, they, except the latter, are far more sociable (humility factor) than the typical yuppies who move into the better residences (with their dogs). I know because i try to offer gospel tracts to them all in their language, thank God we can.
We still have slaves but no work is required.
Progress?
Slavery? You vote for me and I will ....... and you can have every day off to do what ever you want to do.
>But that year the Republican Party was founded by anti-slavery activists and refugees from other political parties to fight the iron grip of powerful southern Democrats.<
Well, knock me over with a feather. I saw the “AARP” and figured this would be a propaganda piece extraordinaire. Actually, the article is pretty balanced.
I’m in Concord....I bet you’re the only person on FR who’s heard of it and knows where it is, LOL.
Of course, it then goes on to try and lead the reader to believe the parties then totally switched ideologies, but it’s the Democrat party that went whole hog socialist. They still, of course, use race to further their agenda.
Yes, i know the source is liberal, but it is a good read and subject apart from the rest.
As far as I am conerned, 1865 sped up the demise of this country.
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