Civil War

Jim Chen

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 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......

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