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When the Civil war started in 1861 children from the North and the South were forced to say goodbye to their families and join the military. It is recorded that 20% of the military soldiers were made up on children under the age of 18. To go to war the law stated that you must be 18 years or older. Many people there overlooked the law for many children were forced to fight. As a child in the war; they often did not fight but they served the job as the musicians. The musicians had to be armed; because when war would break loose they would need to protect themselves. The children in the south went through great trauma. Gunshots were shot at their houses and their homes were taken over by soldiers as field hospitals. The children had to see and go through all of this and even tend to the wounded soldiers and watch if they died. These children faced horrible things like loosing their yards to rotting bodies and getting sick from lack of nutrition and the other soldiers. The children from the North also experienced tragedy from the war. They had to witness the battles in places like South Carolina and Virginia. The people from the North helped African American slave children by teaching them how to read in school. It did not matter whether the children lived in the North or the South because both sides experienced many tragic moments of the war that left the children with those memories forever.

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Information provided by: Kids in the Civil war. //American Experience//. National Endowment for the

Humanities, n.d. Web. 5 Sept. 2013. .

Photos Provided by: // Autocratic for the People //. Blog Sodiyc & Acun, n.d. Web. 5 Sept. 2013.

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