How did the Civil War affect families?

Answer 1

Many families were changed after the war. About 620,000 people were killed in the war, and many of those people were loved ones. The civil war separated families because people were drafted into the war, many men and young boys. Some people would come back with serious injuries and that would cause them to lose their jobs or their family.

Answer 2

Planter Families faced profound changes in the war's aftermath. Many lost not only their slaves but their life savings. some whose slaves departed the plantation had no other option but to do physical labor for the first time in their lives

Answer 3

families of slaves were most often separated at auctions and never saw each other again. mothers were split from children, husband and wife were separated. babies were allowed to stay with their mothers mostly. when they were old enough they were sold off to another owner.

Answer 4

they lost all the boys that were in there family and had to clean up the war messes that was the hardest thing to do said most of the widows because they saw all the men dead and remembered there sons husbands and any one that was a man or boy