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Grant was a general for the Union Army and later became the 18th president of the United States.

=How it All Started= Disputes began during the election of 1861. The Northern states supported Lincoln, but the southern states widely opposed Lincoln because of his views on slavery. So they declared their loyalty to Jefferson Davis. Many disputes came from voting, which eventually turned violent. This is what gave "Bloody Kansas" its nickname. Lincoln defeated Davis by taking 180 of the 303 total votes. This started an uproar among the southern slave owners which eventually lead to South Carolina to secede from the Union, followed closely by 12 other southern states. The south implimented Davis as their president. They established their own capitol and formed their own country on the lower half of the United States.



=War Diagnosis= When people heard originally about the possibile war between the North and South most of the population accepted it and almost wanted it to happen. The thought was that the North would win the war within months.This was not the case. Even with superior factories, population and a better railroad system, the North struggled early on in the war. The South used the North's confidence against them, forcing them to make bad decisions. Most early battles in the war, such as The First Battle of Bull Run and Wilson's Creek, were in Southern territories that the natives knew very well, giving them a big home- field advantage. Another huge factor was the difference between the generals between the two sides. Robert E. Lee was very much saught after when the talks of war had begun. Lee was a top graduate at West Point, after that he served in the U.S Army for 32 years, proving himself to be a worthy commander. Throughout the war this cost the North because they had a lack of good leadership because of a revolving door of generals Lincoln had commissioned. However, the tide of the war had swung when General Lee had made his first and only mistake of the war. The battle of Gettysburg first started as a couple of minor skirmishes ended with the largest number of casualties in American history. The North established a stronghold on a hill where they put a type of "fish hook" hugging around the hill. Lee, confident from previous victories, took action against overwhelming odds and bad positioning. It can only be described as the turning point of the war. Soon after Lincoln established his last commanding general Ulysses S. Grant. Grant ordered William Sherman, one of his commanding officers, to travel down into the southern terriotories and destroy everything east of the Mississippi River this was called "The March Out to Sea". This caused irreplacable damages to the Confederates. General Lee soon signed a peace treaty at Appomatox Court House, Virginia. This gave the North a long awaited victory.

=Quiz= 1. Who did Lincoln defeat in the 1861 election? 2. How many states seceded from the Union? 3. Where did Robert E. Lee graduate from? 4. Who was the president for the South? 5. Where did Lee sign a peace treaty to give the North their victory?

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