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http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war
spring of 1861, decades of simmering tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including states' rights versus federal authority
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New
Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the
Florida coast.
More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of
the population, died in it.
The Civil War has been given many names: the War Between the States, the War
Against Northern Aggression, the Second American Revolution, the Lost Cause, the of the Rebellion, the Brothers’ War, the Late Unpleasantness
thousand of black Americans fought to free their people
served bravely and died miserably in strange places like Baton Rouge, Louisiana, redericksburg, Virginia
There was scarcely a family in the South that did not lose a son or brother or
father.
Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in
great numbers
What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a
struggle over the meaning of freedom in America
At Cold Harbor, some 7,000 Americans fell in twenty minutes
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