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The American Civil War

　　The military aspect  of the  United States Civil War  has always attracted the  most attention from scholars. The roar of gunfire, the massed movements of uniformed men, the shrill o f bugles, and the drama of hand to hand combat have facinated students of warfare for a century. Behind the lines, however, life was less spectacular. It was the story of back breaking labor to provide the fighting men with food and arms, of nerve tingling uncertainty about the course of national events, of heartbreak over sons or brothers or husbands lost in battle. If the men on the firing line won the victories, the means to those victories were  forged on  the home front.  Never in the nation's history had Americans worked harder for victory than in the Civil War. Northerners and Southerners  alike  threw  themselves  into  the  task  of  supplying  their  respective  armies.  Both governments  made  tremendous  demands  upon   civilians  and,  in   general,  received  willing cooperations. By 1863 the Northern war economy was rumbling along in high gear. Everything from steamboats to shovels was needed and  produced. Denied Southern  cotton, textile mills turned to wool for blankets and uniforms. Hides by the hundreds of thousands were turned into shoes  and  harness  and  saddles;  ironworks  manufactured  locomotives,  ordnance,  armor  plate. Where private enterprise lagged, the government set up its own factories or arsenals. Agriculture boomed, with machinery doing the job of farm workers drawn into the army. In short, everything that a nation needed to fight a modern war was produced in uncounted numbers. Inevitably there were  profiteers  with  gold   headed  canes  and  flamboyant  diamond  stickpins,  but  for  every crooked tycoon there were thousands of ordinary citizens living on fixed incomes who did their best to cope with rising prices and still make a contribution to the war effort. Those who could bought war bonds; others knitted, sewed, nursed, or lent any other assistance in their power.
　　全文翻譯：美國(guó)內(nèi)戰(zhàn)美國(guó)內(nèi)戰(zhàn)中的軍事方面一直比較吸引學(xué)者們的注意。  轟隆的炮聲、軍人大規(guī)模 的陣式，尖銳的軍號(hào)和白刃戰(zhàn)的場(chǎng)面，已吸引了戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)研究者們一個(gè)世紀(jì)。  然而，在后方， 生活卻沒(méi)有這般壯觀。那里的故事就是為作戰(zhàn)的軍人提供食物和武裝而做勞累至極的工作， 對(duì)國(guó)家事態(tài)的焦慮和對(duì)在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中失去丈夫、兄弟和兒子的撕心裂肺。  如果說(shuō)前線的人們獲 得了勝利，那勝利的手段就要?dú)w功于后方的人們。  在其歷史上，美國(guó)人從來(lái)沒(méi)有象在內(nèi)戰(zhàn) 中那樣為奪取勝利而如此努力。南方人和北方人一樣投入到為各自軍隊(duì)供應(yīng)物資的任務(wù)中。 雙方政府對(duì)民眾都提出巨大的要求，總的來(lái)說(shuō)，得到了極積的合作。  到了 1863 年，北方戰(zhàn) 時(shí)經(jīng)濟(jì)呈高速運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)，從蒸氣船到鐵鍬，一切都需要并且生產(chǎn)出來(lái)。  由于沒(méi)有了南方產(chǎn)的棉花，紡織工廠紛紛轉(zhuǎn)用毛料生產(chǎn)毯子和軍衣。  幾十萬(wàn)件的皮革制成了鞋、挽具和馬鞍。  鐵 廠生產(chǎn)出機(jī)車、大炮、裝甲板。  私營(yíng)企業(yè)不足以承擔(dān)的方面，政府就成立自己的工廠和兵 工廠。  農(nóng)業(yè)迅猛發(fā)展，因?yàn)檗r(nóng)場(chǎng)工人參軍后機(jī)械代替了手工。  總之，國(guó)家參加現(xiàn)代戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)所 需的多得數(shù)不清的物資都生產(chǎn)出來(lái)了。  不可避免地出現(xiàn)了一些手持鍍金手杖，戴著耀眼的 鉆石別針的投資商。 但每有一個(gè)奸詐的富翁就有成千上萬(wàn)的普通市民。 他們依靠固定的收 入盡他們比較大的努力應(yīng)付著上漲的物價(jià)，為戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)做著貢獻(xiàn)。 那些有能力的人購(gòu)買戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)債券， 其他的人編織、縫補(bǔ)衣服，護(hù)理傷病人或做其它一切他們力所能及的工作。