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    The American Civil War was fought between 1861 to 1865 between northern and southern states over the issues of states' rights and slavery. The southern states wanted to expand slavery and seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America. Fighting began after Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina in April 1861. Over the next four years, Union forces defeated the Confederacy and slavery was abolished. The war resulted in the deaths of over 600,000 soldiers and ended with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in April 1865.

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    The American Civil War was fought between 1861 to 1865 between northern and southern states over the issues of states' rights and slavery. The southern states wanted to expand slavery and seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America. Fighting began after Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina in April 1861. Over the next four years, Union forces defeated the Confederacy and slavery was abolished. The war resulted in the deaths of over 600,000 soldiers and ended with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in April 1865.

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    The American Civil War was fought between 1861 to 1865 between northern and southern states over the issues of states' rights and slavery. The southern states wanted to expand slavery and seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America. Fighting began after Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina in April 1861. Over the next four years, Union forces defeated the Confederacy and slavery was abolished. The war resulted in the deaths of over 600,000 soldiers and ended with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in April 1865.

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    The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought between northern and

    Pacific states and southern states that voted to secede and form the Confederate States of
    America . The central cause of the war was the status of slavery, especially the expansion of
    slavery into newly acquired land after the Mexican-American War. On the eve of the Civil
    War in 1860, four million of the 32 million Americans were black slaves, mostly in the
    South. The practice of slavery in the United States was one of the key political issues of the
    19th century; decades of political unrest over slavery led up to the war. Disunion came after
    Abraham Lincoln won the November 1860 presidential election on an anti-slavery expansion
    platform. An initial seven Southern slave states declared their secession from the country to
    form the Confederacy. After Confederate forces seized numerous federal forts within
    territory claimed by the Confederacy, efforts at compromise failed and both sides prepared
    for war. Fighting broke out in April 1861 when the Confederate army attacked Fort Sumter
    in South Carolina, just over a month after Lincoln's inauguration. An additional four slave
    states joined the Confederacy in the following two months. The Confederacy grew to
    control at least a majority of territory in eleven states, and asserted claims to two more. The
    Confederates assumed that European countries were so dependent on "King Cotton" that
    they would intervene, but none did. The Confederate States of America were never
    diplomatically recognized as a joint entity by the government of the United States, nor by
    that of any foreign country. The states that remained loyal to the federal government were
    known as the Union. Large volunteer and conscription armies were raised; four years of
    intense combat, mostly in the South, ensued. During 1861–1862 in the war's Western
    Theater, the Union made significant permanent gains, though in the Eastern Theater, the
    conflict was inconclusive. In September 1862, Lincoln issued the Emancipation
    Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal. To the west, the Union destroyed the
    Confederate river navy by summer 1862, then much of its western armies, and seized New
    Orleans. The successful 1863 Union siege of Vicksburg split the Confederacy in two at the
    Mississippi River. In 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee's incursion north ended at the
    Battle of Gettysburg. Western successes led to General Ulysses S. Grant's command of all
    Union armies in 1864. Inflicting an ever-tightening naval blockade of Confederate ports, the
    Union marshaled resources and manpower to attack the Confederacy from all directions,
    leading to the fall of Atlanta in 1864 to Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and his
    march to the sea. The last significant battles raged around the ten-month Siege of
    Petersburg, gateway to the Confederate capitol of Richmond. The war effectively ended on
    April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Lee surrendered to Union General Grant at
    Appomattox Court House, after abandoning Petersburg. Confederate generals throughout
    the Southern states followed suit, the last surrender on land occurring on June 23. At the
    end of the war, much of the South's infrastructure was destroyed, especially its railroads.
    The Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and four million enslaved Black people
    were freed. The war-torn nation then entered the Reconstruction era in a partially
    successful attempt to rebuild the country and grant civil rights to freed slaves. The Civil War
    is one of the most studied and written about episod

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