Essay Archive - Civil War
Civil War
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, Chancellor....
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