Wars can bring out so many emotions. National pride, sadness, pain, suffering, happiness, loneliness, fright, strength; hopefulness and hopelessness. Most people can't find a way to express themselves in such dark times; but the people that wrote it all down, the people that set down the memories and the emotions and the pain into words for people to read hundreds of years later helped preserve history in it's purest form; records from firsthand experience. Some …showed first 75 words of 546 total…

…showed last 75 words of 546 total…preservation." Lee may have been fighting for the losing side, but his ideas were pure and strong. Many tears and smiles were spilled during the Civil War, and it's lucky that many emotions were recorded. Lee, Whitman, and Douglas all gave an idea of what the hardship of living war day to day must be like. By their writings and expressions, mankind can learn from its mistakes and not let history repeat itself once again.