Civil War
was the greatest war in American history. It was waged in 10,000
places-from Valverde, New Mexico, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More
than three million Americans fought in it and more than 600,00 men died in it.
It was not only the immensity of the fight but the new weapons, the new
standards of generalship, and the strategies of destruction which made the Civil
War an event present ever since in the American consciousness.
Here are some of the crucial events of the war: the firing of the first shots at
Fort Sumter; the battles of Shiloh, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; Sherman's
dramatic march to the sea; the surrender at Appomattox. In fact, Civil War
wasn't simply the ...
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slavery because the slave population held more
than 40 percent of the entire population and also they needed slavery for their
industrialization. Therefore, if they freed all the slaves, someone would
predict, many whites would have no jobs and many things would be up-side-down.
As the result, controlling over slaves was very important for the Southern. But
the Northern were opponent of slavery since the slavery population took less
than 10 percent of the entire population and Southern states were already free.
Then something really happened when Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery,
was elected president. The Southern states then decided to secede, which meant
that they were leaving the nation because they thought how could Lincoln be the
president of the United States if most of the Southern didn't vote for him.
Now, as we could see, our nation started to divide into two, the south and the
north.
During the year of 1861 to 1865, there were thousands of war between ...
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demand pushed General-
in-Chief Winfield Scott to advance on the South before adequately training his
untried troops. Scott ordered General Irvin McDowell to advance on Confederate
troops stationed at Manassas Junction, Virginia, where near the Capital of South,
Richmond. Then McDowell attacked in July 21, and was initially successful, but
the introduction of Confederate reinforcements resulted in a Southern victory
and a retreat toward Washington by the strong federal troops. From this battle,
First Battle of Bull Run, everyone finally realized that the war would last much
longer than what they thought. After the Battle of Bull Run, each side began to
train its troops and to plan ...
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