Civil war was the greatest war in American history. It was waged in 10,000
             places-from Valverde, New Mexico, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More
             than three million Americans fought in it and more than 600,00 men died in it.
             It was not only the immensity of the fight but the new weapons, the new
             standards of generalship, and the strategies of destruction which made the Civil
             War an event present ever since in the American consciousness.
             Here are some of the crucial events of the war: the firing of the first shots at
             Fort Sumter; the battles of Shiloh, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; Sherman's
             dramatic march to the sea; the surrender at Appomattox. In fact, Civil War
             wasn't simply the story of great battles and great generals, it was also an
             elaborate portrait of ourselves, American people- individuals and families,
             northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, slaves and slaveowners,
             Twenty years before Civil War started, South and North didn't have a good
             relationship already and there were many issues that they didn't agree on each
             other such as Clay's compromise, Fugitive slave act, Pottawatomie massacre, etc.
             The Southern states supported slavery because the slave population held more
             than 40 percent of the entire population and also they needed slavery for their
             industrialization. Therefore, if they freed all the slaves, someone would
             predict, many whites would have no jobs and many things would be up-side-down.
             As the result, controlling over slaves was very important for the Southern. But
             the Northern were opponent of slavery since the slavery population took less
             than 10 percent of the entire population and Southern states were already free.
             Then something really happened when Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery,
             was elected president. The Southern states then decided to secede, which meant
             that they were leaving the nation because they thought how c...