What did Northerners want to do after the Civil War? What did Southerners want?

The Civil War had fewer devastating effects on the North than the South simply because most of the combat of the Civil War occurred on Southern soil. Even so, it is difficult to imagine a civil war that does not affect all portions of the society in which it takes place, and the Civil War affected the North and its civilians in many ways.

From time to time, Confederate cavalry raided into the North to bring the war home to Northerners and, they hoped, to influence Northern morale and support for the war. Southern supporters living in the North or border states sometimes fought deadly guerrilla warfare or simply bushwacked people they considered enemies in those regions. On the other hand, Unionists in the border states often mistreated Confederate sympathizers who lived among them. The war affected the Northern economy both positively and negatively and changed the life course of many women.

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Soon after the formation of the Confederate States of America, delegates from the seceded states

met as a provisional government in Montgomery, Alabama. Among the early actions was appointment of

a committee to propose a new flag and seal for the Confederacy. The proposal adopted by the committee

called for a flag consisting of a red field divided by a white band one-third the width of the field, thus

producing three bars of equal width. The flag had a square blue union the height of two bars, on which was

placed a circle of white stars corresponding in number to the states of the Confederacy – South Carolina,

Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.

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