The American Civil War

The American Civil War was fought by 3 million people from 1861-1865 and over 2percent of the population(600,000men)died in it.The Confederate States of America under general Joseph Hooker(including:South Carolina,Mississippi,Florida,Alabama,Georgia,Louisiana and Texas) fought against the Union Army under general Robert E. Lee. The war was fought in 10000 places from New Mexico to Tennessee and down to the coast of Florida.The bloodiest single day of the war the battle of Anitietam where about 23000 people died on both sides.That's the double number of casualties of D-Day 82 years later.In 1963 at November 19.Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address,that famous speech is about the victims of the civil war,the rebirth of the american liberty and the reunion of the nation.I think the most important quote in this speech is."The world will little note,nor long remember what we say here,but it can never forget what they did here".Just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war he was gunned down by an assassin.He was the tragic figure in the war between the states.

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