Civilian Life In the War
The Differences Between the North and South
What Happened in the Civil War?
The Civil War began in 1861 with the attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and it ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse in 1865. In the battle of Fort Sumter, Major Robert Anderson of the South attacked the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, and there was open fire on April 12, 1861. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln released the Emancipation Proclamation, though some states were against it. The Emancipation Proclamation was written in 1863 by Lincoln and Douglass. The Civil War was a five year battle between the two sides, the Union and Confederacy. It was caused by the disagreement between the states, since the Union was against slavery and the Confederacy encouraged it. In the end, though, the Union turned out victorious and abolished slavery in all the states. The amount of people killed in the Civil War totaled about 650,000. This matters now because all fifty of the United States discriminate racism and slavery is illegal throughout the country. The American Civil War is arguably one of the most important wars fought in the US.
Life for Northern Civilians
Life for Southern Civilians
Similarities Between Both Sides
There are not many similarities between the Union and Confederacy in the Civil War, but they did share or used to share common beliefs. When the war started, they both thought that it would be relatively short. They also both wanted the border states to join them in fighting. Both sides used conscription as a way of retrieving soldiers. They also both used relatively similar weapons. They used ironclads, rifles, and minié balls to fight. The South had the ironclad Virginia, or Merrimack, and the North had Monitor. Although the similarities were small in amount, both sides still had them.
Generals in the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
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