The Cohesion Of The United States of America

There were two partys in the war - North against South.
The South was called the Confederate States of America. The army was led under Robert E. Lee who died in 1870.

In the Civil War died more than 600.000 people. This was 2% of the american population at this time.

The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the war and Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address.
He said that there is a new beginning of the nation in liberty and that the war was to save the Union, and the cohesion of the United States of America - North and South.