HIST 2055 : Final Exam Book Questions
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Why did the gulf between experience and expectation leave many confederates. White southern men enlisted at the beginning of the war expecting that the new. Confederacy would be better for their personal interests (family and property) than the union was. What they experienced, however, was an increasingly intrusive encroachment on their liberty and property by the confederate government that was brought on by the demands of the war. In addition, poor white men were on the wrong end of the military caste system of officers and enlisted. Further, many southern civilians were not hospitable or outwardly thankful to any soldier who was not from that area. All this, combined with multiple losses of battles, left most enlisted confederates feeling honey- fuggled, or betrayed. The patriotic and romantic ideals that propelled them to enlist in the war were washed away by the experience of the reality of the war. In what ways did union general benjamin butler"s order no.
