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The War Begins
The first magor battleof the civil war was the of Bull Run ,or also known as the battle of Manassas. -
Bull Run Facts
Both sides arrived at Virginia with nearly 30,000 soliders, but most of the soliders had not been trianed. At first it appeared that the Union army would win the battle because the Confederate army started to retreat, or fall back -
The Battle of Shiloh
Tennessee was the last southern state to secede from the union. -
The Battle of Antietam
As the war dragged on, the blockade on the southern ports seem to be working. Supplies in the south ran very low. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
When president Licoln took office,he was not opposed to slavery.Licoln had shared a secret with his advisers.He told them that he had decided to emancipate,or free some of the south enslaved people. -
African American Soliders
About 180,000 african american soliders served in the union army. -
Women that Helped in the Civil War
Clara Barton,Dorothea Dix,Sally Tompkis, and Belle Boyd
