Started: April 12,1861 Ended: April 9, 1865

 The civil war started on April 12,  It started because of slavery.  Deadliest war in America.  Stated at Fort Sumter

Union States: Oregon, California, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine Confederate States: Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia Border States: Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia

France & Great Britain  Neither of them took sides.  Thought that the confederacy wasn't a nation.  They still supplied them with weapons.

The vehicles they used were horses and the soldiers walked. Weapons Artillery: Smoothbored Cannons Rifled Cannons Projectile(12Ilb, 24Ilb, 32ilb, Etc.) Caliber(3in, 8in, 10in) Loading(Breech or muzzle) Made(i.e. Dahlgren, Napoleon, Rodman, Parrott, Whitworth )

Small Arms: Muskets, long-barreled shoulder arms, rifles, shoulder guns with spiral grove cut into barrel, short barreled rifles, handguns, pistol, revolvers Designated by caliber(.58 caliber Springfield muskets,.69 caliber Hapers Ferry rifle) Edged Weapons Bayonets, sabers, swords, short swords, cutlasses, bowie knives, pikes, and lances.

Union- Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant William T. Sherman John Brown Confederate- Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Stonewall Jackson Braxton Bragg

Born in Clarksburg Virginia, 1824 Was a confederate soldier In 1847, was promoted to brevet Major In 1857, was promoted to major general Most Prominent military figures during the civil war Died of pneumonia on may 10, 1863 at the age of 39

Born on April 22, 1822 in point pleasant, Ohio Went to military school Applied to be an officer- Union army He wrote memoirs died soon after Died July 3 rd 1885

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania( battle field ) Fort Sumter 1 st Bull Run 2 nd Bull Run Battle of Appomattox Courthouse

It stopped Slavery Gave slaves and colored people the right to vote.

It ended on April 9, 1865 The Union won the war The confederate surrendered Slavery was ended Ended at the Appomattox Courthouse.

You could be fighting with your brother, cousin, etc. And the next minute you dead or you family member is dead!

WEB More than 620,000 died in four years legends of the America. N.p., Web. 28 Mar BOOK After four years of fight 600,000 casualties died. Johnson, Jennifer. Gettysburg: The Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War. New York: Franklin Watts, Print.

Union was blue and the confederate was gray. The Leader for the confederate army was Robert E. Lee William T. Sherman was the leader for the union army.

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