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 story of

great battles and great generals, it was also an elaborate portrait of

ourselves, American people- individuals and families, northerners and

southerners, soldiers and civilians, slaves and slaveowners, rich and

poor, urban and rural. Twenty years before Civil War started, South and

North didn't have a good relationship already and there were many issues

that they didn't agree on each other such as Clay's compromise, Fugitive

slave act, Pottawatomie massacre, etc. The Southern states supported

Battle of Gettysburb. in the fighting that followed, General Meade had

were. Many African American children started to go to school and being

educated just like everyone else. Many African Americans involves

Courthouse. Before the real business, both of them were talking about

1, a chance encounter between Union and Confederate forces began the

the South and keep the Confederacy from resupplying its western forces.

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