The American Civil War was one of the largest in world history. The number of American lives lost in this war had never been heard of, nor has it been. The fighting that took place tore our nation apart and we still feel the effects 135 years later. This war is so widely written about, that it ...

Battle of Gettysburg: Turning point of the war. The American people in 1860 believed they were the luckiest people alive in all the world. This was before the start of what some believe as "the first real civil war." (Catton 108). The battle, demonstrating as it did the effective...