It was the War in the country. It was destructive and terrible. It was the Civil War. On March 4th, 1861, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as President of the United States. He wanted to cancel the servitude. It was the idea of the inhabitants of the North, because they had manufactories and used the hired workers. But it wasn't a thought of the inhabitants of the South. The ground in the South was …showed first 75 words of 803 total…

…showed last 75 words of 803 total…saw him as a symbol of the goodness of mankid. Emily Dickinson was another New England woman who wrote during the Civil War era. She was also a northness. She supported the actions of Abraham Lincoln in her poems. And of course, Margaret Mitchell. She didn't write during the Civil War. But she wrote the "Gone with the wind". It tells you about the destructions during the War and about the life after the War.