Southern Home Front

This week's readings captured the complexity of life on the southern home front during the Civil War and its impact on the outcome of the war.  It raised the often overlooked implications of war being fought on home soil such as outside occupation, mistreatment of civilians by enemy troops, and decreased morale of the soldiers due to worries of family mistreatment by the enemy.  It also offered a look at the fact that the Confederate politicians were not in lock step with one another, and because one of the causes of the rebellion was "states' rights," the individual states naturally clung to their right to have independent voice.