The Civil War
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- The Civil War began in April 1861, when Confederate forces fired upon federal troops in Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
- Soon after the war began, Lincoln approved an assault on Confederate troops gathered near Manassas Junction, Virginia. The First Battle of Bull Run started well for the Union, but the tide turned when reinforcements helped the Confederates defeat the Union forces.
- The Union blockaded Southern ports along the Atlantic, but the South used small, fast ships to smuggle goods past the blockades. In April 1862, Union forces seized New Orleans, the South’s largest city, and gained control of the lower Mississippi River.
- While Grant fought in the West, Union general George B. McClellan’s forces set out to capture Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. In late June 1862, Confederate general Robert E. Lee began a series of attacks on McClellan’s forces. Together the two sides suffered more than 30,000 casualties
- There was no end to this war, they had been more than two years in battle and there were not too many medical resources to cure the wounded. Also there was little knowledge on how to cure people.
- The North won the war in 1865 and united both North and South and abolished slavary. They left the South socially and economically devastated with many questions to ask.
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