Blog #4 Revolution Article

1. Despite the 620,000 soldiers that died in the Civil War, for some reason it is still looked at as inferior compared to the Revolutionary War because that was the war where we gained independence.

2. John Adams did not want to be forgotten in history so him along with George Washington strived to secure their place in history. It was surprising that it was Washington who pursued this more thoroughly by editing his grammar of his journals and even hiring David Humphreys to write an authorized biography.

3. The revolution was a bloody war with much carnage, portrayed at Bunker Hill and other battles where the battlefield was strewn with dead and dying bodies. Even with these imaged however, the Revolution isn't considered to be a deadly/bloody war.

4. George Washington did not make a convincing or memorable speech like Lincoln's Gettysburg address. In fact, when Washington made his speach when he resigned from the army he said nothing memorable and completely left out all of the 100,000 men who had fought under him and secured their nations freedom.

5. The Civil War in the south actually involved artillary bombardment which i thought was only involved in the World Wars, and it was actually quite brutal. It is described from an American under siege that there were things flying everywhere, cannon-calls whizzing, people's chests blowing up and wounded men groaning all along the lines.