LAD/Blog #4 Rethinking the Revolution

George Washington crossing the Delaware

After reading Rethinking the Revolution, I learned....
1. The Founding Fathers, and the wealthy Americans, were constantly worrying how the war and themselves would be remembered, so many of them wrote biographies about themselves that express there positive effects.
2. The Civil War is known as a modern war, The confederates and union forces were able to mobilize their arms and supplies at an equal scale of World War II. Because of the time period, the camera was available to show the war in a more modern perspective.
3. Adams, predicted that Washington was going to be able to win the War of Independence single-handedly. War was fought in the south and north, and the French were not as helpful in the Victory as we think today.
4. The Revolutionary generation was long gone in the years coming up to the Civil war, all the people had were the memories, that may not be as accurate as the people thought.This caused the two wars to be seen in two different lights.
5.  The conditions the soldiers went through during the Revolution, were not as bad as the historians tell us, besides the Winter at Vally Forge.