The War

Who Really won the Civil War? Really nobody won the war. Even though the south had won the battle, the north won the war. The south had let the slaves free, they were still tying to treat them as if they still own them.


One of the main reasons why the south had released the slaves was beacause of the Abraham Lincoln. When he was elected president, he had promised he would release all the slaves. Until the south had decided to make their own nation The Confederate States of America. Then Lincoln had decided to create to create Emancipation Proclamtion. On January 1, but was only affective on the slaves that were already free.


By 1862 thats when the had started, both sides started to creating large armies, as the army, as the war began the more deadly it had become more soldiers were being killed both sides kept using new weapons and old battle field tactics.


As the war was started to heat up. In the East Confederate commander Robert Edward Lee was in charge of the army in Northern Virginia. He had number of victories during the battle against the army of potomac but his general Thomas Johnathan Stonewell Jacksonwas killed during the battle of Chancellosville. During Lee's invasion in the north was starting to come to an end. At the battle in Gettyburg, Pennsylvania. Lee barely made it back to Virginia.


During the battle that Ulysses Grant and Robert Lee has had, were all bloody and dangerous and a lot of soldiers were dead. Even though Lee's dirty tactics had Ulysses against the wall Ulysses still managed to lead his army victorious and lee was force to retreat his trenches around his capitol.


After William Tecumseh Sherman, the leader of the union military were on there way in taking over Atlanta, Georgia they had to travle through sea had did a 100 mile swath on Georgia. Then the Confederacy was starting to get weaker.


During the begging of 1864 this is when the war was coming to an end. Through all the wars that Grant and lee had this was probaly was the most dangerous, while fighting iin Spotslyvania in cold Harbor, resulted to a union loss. After that they stil felt as if they lost and finally they surrender. On April 9, 1865 lee had surrendr at Appomattox court house. After lee surrender on April 26, 1865 Johnston had surrender his troops in Durham, North Carolina. Then finally the moment the north was waiting for the C.S.S Shenandoah on November 4, 1865 in Liverpool, England.


As a result over 600,000 soldiers died, over 400,000 barely survived. Cause of Abraham Lincoln, reconstruction slavery was abolished.