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The American Civil War

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The American Civil War (1861-1865) took more American lives than any other war in its short history. It was fought between the United States government (the Union) and eleven Southern states that had declared their secession from the union, also called the Confederacy. The civil war divided the United States of America into Northern and Southern States and killed 630,000 thousands people, a proportion of the population equivalent to 5 million people in the US today. The conflict went on for  four years but its consequences have endured time.
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Civil War Wilderness

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Fought between May 5 and 7 1864 the civil war Wilderness campaign was a battle between Lt. Gen. Ulysses. S. Grant ‘s Overland Campaign forces comprising some 101,000 men  against Gen. Robert. E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Grant and Lee’s armies suffered heavy losses in both men and equipment, a bloody war of attrition attempting to push forward Grant to the capital of the confederate Richmond Virginia.
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The Historic Naval War for New Orleans

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When you think of great navel battles from U.S. history, we mostly think of phenomenal battles of the Revolutionary War or World War II.  But it was a naval battle for control of the mouth of the Mississippi river during the Civil War that changed the course of that war.  The strategies that lead to the fall of New Orleans is one of the storied naval encounters of this era of U.S. history.
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