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The American Civil War was fought between 1861 to 1865 between Northern and Southern states over the issues of slavery and states' rights. The South seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America. The war began when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina and ended in 1865 with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the war. Over 600,000 soldiers died during the Civil War, which remains the deadliest war in American history.

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Civil War

The American Civil War was fought between 1861 to 1865 between Northern and Southern states over the issues of slavery and states' rights. The South seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America. The war began when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina and ended in 1865 with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the war. Over 600,000 soldiers died during the Civil War, which remains the deadliest war in American history.

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Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865, also known by other names) was a civil
war in the United States fought between northern and Pacific states ("the Union" or "the North")
and southern states that voted to secede and form the Confederate States of America ("the
Confederacy" or "the South").[e] 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.
After former U.S. Congressman 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. War 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 those eleven states (out of the
34 U.S. states in February 1861), and it claimed the additional states
of Kentucky and Missouri by assertions from native secessionists fleeing Union authority. These
states were given full representation in the Confederate Congress throughout the Civil War. The
two remaining slave states, Delaware and Maryland, were invited to join the Confederacy, but
Delaware declined and nothing substantial developed in Maryland due to intervention by
Federal garrisons. 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.[f] The
states that remained loyal to the federal government were known as the Union.[g]
The war effectively ended on April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E.
Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court
House. Confederate generals throughout the Southern states followed suit, the last surrender
on land occurring on June 23. Much of the South's infrastructure was destroyed, especially its
railroads. The Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished upon ratification of the thirteenth
amendment, 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 episodes in U.S. history, and remains
the subject of cultural and historiographical debate. Of particular interest are the causes of the
Civil War and the persisting myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. The American Civil War
was among the earliest industrial wars. Railroads, the telegraph, steamships and iron-
clad ships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively. In total the war left
between 620,000 and 750,000 soldiers dead,[14] along with an undetermined number of civilians.
[h]
 The Civil War remains the deadliest military conflict in American history, [i] and accounted for
more American military deaths than all other wars combined until the Vietnam War.[j] The
mobilization of civilian factories, mines, shipyards, banks, transportation, and food supplies all
foreshadowed the impact of industrialization in World War I, World War II, and subsequent
conflicts.

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