The Brothers’ War

The Civil War was one of the worsest happenings of the United States although it was the beginning for more equality of people and rights for slaves.
One of its many names is 'the Brothers’ War'.
It describes the best that in the Civil War men fought against each other who live in the same country, maby even know each other.

Eleven southern states wich were affectedd of slave trade declared their seperation from the US and become the Confederate States of America.
The States were Texas, Arkansas, LA., Mississppi, Alabama, Tennesee, Georgia, Florida, South- and North- Carolina and Virginia.

The Confederate Army was adduced by the General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), The Union Army by General Hiram Ulysses Grant (1822-1885), later known as 'U.S. Grant'. The U. S. stands for 'Unconditional Surrender' which should describe his personality: He never capitulate.


The Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, was on September 17, 1862 was the bloodiest battle fought on a single day, with about 23,000 wastages.


The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg is with 44.000 diabled and 5.500 casualties also one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. It is a deciding watershed. With the defeat of the Confederate Army under General E. Lee´s leadership the last offensive of the Confederates ends.


The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address -one the most important speeches in the history of the United States- is about the Decleration of Independence, thus about liberty and about
equality: 'Fourscore and seven years ago our fsthers brought forth on this continetnt a new nation, concieved in leberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal'
Abraham Lincoln bring that the men who fought for these facts shopuld not have died for nothing: '...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom...'


By Michele Blago