Steven+Civil+War+Essay

In many cases of battle the soldiers get all the attention. Everyone thinks they are heros. Which they are, but there are other "heroes" too. They are the children. They are the one's who helped the wounded, and spied for them. They don't get as much credit as they disserve. I believe they are just as much of a hero, or maybe more.

The children play a key role in helping the injured. The little kids who weren't aloud to have a gun helped the wounded. After the battles they would go out and look for wounded. They would make sure that they help as many as possible. There is a hard thing they have to do in their job. In a sense they choose who lives and who dies. They only take the ones who are most likely to survive. If you have a belly wound, you will not be taken. The doctor can't waste there time on people who likely aren't going to live. Without children helping the wounded many soldiers would have been died. This could have changed the outcome of the war because there would be less people.

Children would get information on were the other side is going or if they are going to attack them. The children would never be suspected as spys. Children could walk right by the other side with map and things that show what the people are doing that they stole right off on of their desk. If they were caught they could just say they found them. The children can stand by the soldiers and listen to them talk. They wouldn't get caught for spying because if they were suspected of spying they could say they were just looking at the guns and soldiers like any youngster would do. In my opinion they are the best spys.

Children helped keep the soldiers happy. They played instruments for them. The most common was the drums. Although there where others. The children did not know many songs, so they repeated the same song over and over. Being a drummer boy was the most daring job to do. They were in the front of everyone, and they didn't have a gun. They were sitting ducks. There isn't anything braver or harder then playing an instrument in the Civil War.

Being in the war was considered a honor. That's why children at the age of 16 and 17 would lie about age. It would get them in the war. They only did this for the glory and honor. They wanted to be considered men. They thought it would be a little fight. They thought they might even not have to fight. No one ever thought it would turn out what it ended up being. Without these teens there could have been a difference in the war. There would be less people who were fighting. If the people of the North knew what was going to happen they wouldn't be signing up for the war for honor and glory.

In the war many children made the North win. The jobs that they did were what decided who won or lost the war. They did everything. If they didn't then the Ones who fought would have to do these jobs, and they wouldn't be able to do them as good as the kids. Not to mention that if they did the jobs the kids did they wouldn't be able to fight, so if they didn't fight they would have less people and that means that the South could have one some more fights and ended up winning the war.