English Civil War Society English Civil War Society The English Civil War Society was founded in 1980 and is the umbrella organisation for the King's Army and the Roundhead Association. The purpose of the Society is to raise awareness of the conflict between King Charles I of England and his supporters and their opponents in Parliament and Scotland. The society does this by staging re-enactments of civil war battles and other types of living history displays across the UK. The re-enactment societies are concerned with technical details about regiments, their weapons and their clothing and way of life as well as mock battles using
Slavery during the American Civil War Manning in "What This Cruel War Was Over", Jason Phillips in "Diehard Rebels", Joseph Glatthaar in The "New Civil War History" and "General Lee's Army", Aaron Sheehan-Deen in "Why Confederates Fought", Kenneth Noe in "Reluctant Rebels", and James McPherson in "For Cause and Comrades" argued that slavery was central in the mindset of many Confederate soldiers. The issue in the mind and motivation of Union soldiers has also been debated. Manning's "What This Cruel War Was Over" is an example discussing the importance of slavery for Union soldiers. At the beginning of 1865, millions of black people remained as slaves,