CIVIL WARHere on this website you will learn some of the ecstatic thrill and complicated battles of the Civil War, not only the battles but the people as well . Information founded in this website is located at the end of this page. So please enjoy the bold history that molded America of what it is today!
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle at Gettysburg" The July 3 infantry charge was part of a three-day battle at Gettysburg, which many historians consider the turning point of the Civil War. The battle of Gettysburg crippled the South so badly that General Lee would never again possess sufficient forces to invade forces to invade a Northern state."
- Textbook; The Americans, Beginnings to 1914 Chapter 11: Section 4, page 357 In November 1863, a ceremony was held to dedicated a cemetery in Gettysburg. There was when Abraham Lincoln had given the famous speech known as the Gettysburg Address.
Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. -Abraham Lincoln Vicksburg Campaign/Battle
Ending of the Civil War
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