Rivera 1

Mrs. Smith
Extra Credit
8 May, 2014 The Civil War During the summer of 18 61, Willmar McClain decided to move his family to Appomattox, courthouse from harms away. In 1865, Lee surrendered his army of northern Virginia to Grant in the front yard of the courthouse and on that day.. The civil war was fought in ten thousand places. More than 3 million Americans fought in the civil war and as a result over six hundred thousand men died. The war consisted of Four years(1861-1865) of brutal battle between Americans. The war began mainly over a dispute between the northerners and the southerners about the southerners not willing to make change of dismissing slavery. The northern state army were called the Union while the southerners were called the Confederates. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was the president of the united states at the time. Lincoln won the presidency with only 40% of the vote George McClellan was the general for the Union side and Ulysses S. Grant was the general for the Confederate side. During the war, there were many people who took it upon themselves to justify their beliefs by killing their opposing side. For example, the radical abolitionist John Brown thought he was gods agent on earth. Him and his sons hacked 5 pro-slavery men to death with swords. In 1865, The Union were simply outnumbered compared to the confederates. The union lack the amount of soldiers, the necessary utilities needed to survive, weapons, ammo ect. and even with the limited amount, they still prevailed to