Pharaoh's Army Essay

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Pharaoh’s Army is a moving film that brings the Civil War and reduces the experience down to a very personal level, presenting the story of a band of five Union scavengers who, due to unforeseen circumstances, are forced to stay for an extended period of time on the farm of a Confederate soldier off fighting in the war. Based in rural Kentucky near the Tennessee border war sympathies were strongly divided, Sarah Anders, the wife of a Confederate soldier found herself in a serious conflict after the Union soldiers, led by Captain John Hull Abston, that raided her house were forced to stay with her after one of the men in their raiding party suffered a serious but accidental injury. As the story unfolds Anders reveals her the real reason behind …show more content…
The Civil War was a terrible war for both the Confederacy and the Union however after watching this movie I think it took a toll on the wives and families of soldiers the most. One of the things I noticed while watching the film was the sense of helplessness that Anders and her son had. In the film Anders character is presented as a strong willed woman having trouble coping with the loss of her daughter and the fact that her husband may never come home again but when the people from the Army, maybe even the battalion that caused her daughter’s death showed up at her doorstep she had no choice but to let them take everything she had worked so hard to keep. Even when she decided to take action against the soldiers she had to send her son to town to ask for help from the town minister who is a Confederate sympathizer. At the end of the movie when Captain Abston gives Sarah her musket back she attempts to fire it at them but finds that the musket is not loaded. While this makes sense from a logical standpoint it also speaks to the helplessness that confederate women experienced during the war, not able to fend for themselves they had to submit to constant raids from Union scavengers who in many cases were probably much more brutal that Abston and his men. Overall the film opened my eyes to just how hard it was for Confederate women during the
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