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The Civil War Awakening

Conclusion

The most memorable aspect of the novel in my opinion is how Lincoln decided things during the first year of the Civil War and how he dealt with the stress of it all. Something that really stuck in my mind was the actions of soldiers in the war and how gruesome how it really was during the war. I think the novel is important because it documents the beginning of the civil war, its many causes and the way people reacted to it. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the Civil War and the stories of the people in it.

By:Kyle Silverio

Elmer Ellsworth

Major Robert Anderson

Theme

Characters

The theme of the book is to fight against things that you believe is not right and that is why the Union fought the Confederacy over the issue of slavery, politics and new states coming into the Union.

Character Quotes

Protagonist:

Conflict

"It seems as if we were never alive till now; never had a real country till now"

Antagonist:

"We could never fight for the freedom of Negroes"

Characters include Abraham Lincoln, Major Robert Anderson and Elmer Ellsworth. The protagonists are the soldiers that are in the Union and the antagonists are the soldiers/characters in the Confederacy.

The main type of conflict in the novel is person vs person. The conflict is between the North and South in the Civil War. They are fighting for many different reasons and because of different opinions on issues which the book goes into detail about.

There are also person vs self conflict with the soldiers deciding who to fight for and which issues they agree on with the two different sides.

Point Of View

Summary

The point of view is in third person point of view, because the narrator of the book tells the stories of different characters and people that took part of the Civil War. The point of view stays in third person throughout the book and never changes.

Theme Quotes

“The war described here was not just a Southern rebellion, but a nationwide revolution—fought even from within the seceding states—for freedom.

1861 The Civil War Awakening

The quote shows that everyone in the Civil War was fighting for one overall theme, and that was freedom. The Union fought for the freedom of slaves and the freedom for any race or nationality. The Confederacy was fighting for the freedom of doing what they wanted, including the ability to own slaves.

1861 is a series of very long character sketches that detail the ways some people awakened to the necessity of war against the South and against the slavery it harbored.

Most of those characters are Northerners or Westerners, ranging from Abraham Lincoln and Major Robert Anderson to the young James Garfield in Ohio and Jessie Benton Frémont, dynamic wife of John C. Frémont, in San Francisco. His fullest portrayal is of Elmer Ellsworth, the first Union soldier killed in the war, felled in Alexandria, Virginia, after taking down a large Confederate flag visible from the White House across the Potomac.

By: Adam Goodheart

Point Of View Quote

"They had no idea what sort of naval force might be accompanying his tugboats and it made little sense to hold fire until they found out."

The quote shows that the novel is in third person because it does not use "I" or "my" but "they" or "them".

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