Civil War History | Learn some facts about the Civil War

In 1861 there were 34 United States of America, 11 of these states acted to secede or withdraw from the Union and form the Confederate States of America. the heart of the problem was slavery. Slavery was not exclusive to the US, but became active in America in 1699. Beginning in the Jamestown colony, when African workers were brought to work in the tobacco fields in 1793, the invention of the gin Cotton greatly increased the demand for cotton and the demand for cheap or free labor also grew. The problem of slavery became more intense when many opponents sought to abolish slavery and make it illegal.

The northern states moved in this direction but the southern states did not and the southern cotton plantations depended on slave labor with the election of abraham lincoln in 1860 a republican and strong opponent of slavery these 11 southern states seceded from the union and waged war against the north it began at fort sumter in the coastal city of charleston, south carolina confederate troops fired against the fort these were the shots that started the american

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war the main impetus of the

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war was this: the states that depended on slavery for their industry and to maintain legal slavery wanted to secede from the union of the united states and the Home rule leaders and congressional representatives from the northern United States where slavery was illegal wanted to maintain national integrity. and prevent the secession of the southern states the civil war was the bloodiest and deadliest war on American soil it divided families and friends in the book titled the american civil war by john keegan declared that the american civil war was going to be one of the fiercest wars ever fought without geographical objectives the only objective of each side was the enemy soldier as president of the united states abraham lincoln was the commander in chief of the northern union and its main military leaders ulysses s Grant and william t sherman the president of the confederacy to the south it was jefferson davis with its main leaders robert and lee pierre gustav toutend beauregard and stonewall jackson these southern leaders and their troops sought to ensure the secession of the southern states from the union battles between the north and the south They were fierce loss of life and the injuries caused by cannon fire and musket balls were massive surgeries and the amputations were carried out in the field without the aid of anesthesia without the use of antiseptics the result of these horrible battles a total was lost of 650,000 lives, hundreds of thousands wounded and every one of them an American Among the hundreds of battles fought,

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of the most important conflicts occurred with Grant and Lee at Appomattox, the Battle of Bull Run Shiloh in Tennessee, the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania and the horrible Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

Victories were won by both the Union and Confederate armies. As opposing generals attempted to outsmart and outsmart each other with the ultimate goal of forcing the enemy into a final and complete surrender on January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln through an executive order issued the Emancipation Proclamation that ordered the freedom of nearly 4 million slaves, although not immediately recognized by the rebel southern states, the declaration allowed a slave to become free by escaping bondage by any means or if the advancing serving army allowed a slave to run free on November 19, 1863 at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. also the site of a major battle victory by the union army president lincoln gave his gettysburg address one of the shortest but most eloquent and powerful oratorio delivered by any president of the united states one of the final battles of the Civil war occurred on the morning of April 9, 1865.

General Ulesis, who would one day become president, soundly defeated Confederate General Robert E Lee and accepted his surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia, six days after the Confederacy's crushing defeat of the Southern States on August 15. april 1865 abraham lincoln president of the united states states of america would be assassinated by john wilkes stand while attending the fort theater, it would take time and effort and finally the time came when president andrew johnson signed the proclamation on august 20, 1866 which declares that peace, order, tranquility and civil authority now exist in and throughout the entire United States of America. We hope you had fun

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