1. There was a lot of controversy and conspiracy surrounding how the revolutionary War would be remembered in history, by the wealthy upper class and the Founding fathers. Many of them actively took a role in forming their own histories by publishing flattering autobiographies.
2. While military leaders from the Civil War are more historically famous than anyone else from that time, the civilian leaders in the American Revolution are given more credit than their military leaders.
3. One of the reasons the Revolutionary War and the Civil war are thought of so differently in history are by the media that we have to remember them by. The paintings of the Revolutionary War were very tame, while Civil War paintings tended to be full of carnage.
4. The living conditions of the soldiers in the Revolutionary War were much worse than history makes them out to be. It was not limited to the 1776-1777 winter in Valley Forge.
5. Civilian casualties also made an impact on the Revolutionary War, particularly through diseases spread by soldiers on both sides.
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