Robert's Senior Project- 10

Another perhaps interesting topic is how the soldiers fighting for the Union felt about the soldiers fighting for the Confederacy. Its kind of a complicated relationship. The Confederate soldiers are definitely perceived as the enemy. In nothing that I have read have I found any indication the Union soldiers had any real moral objection to fighting fellow Americans. If anything, the Confederate soldiers were like people from another country. Usually they are called the "rebels" or the "enemy", and there is often descriptions about the southern territory feels really foreign even though its really part of the US. There is a lot of teasing; before battles begin one side may yell insults about "rebels" or "Yankees". These are all insults but they are said in a funny way. So its not as if the two sides hate each other either. Many times Union soldiers will talk to confederate prisoners about home life or something like that. And really, once the war ended the two sides would get together and talk. Because very often a Union soldier will know a rebel. Either they were friends or they may even be related.