The American Civil War (1861-1865) is perhaps one of the
most horrible, yet important events in North-American history; it pitted
brother against brother in a new land which needed unification more than
it needed to be divided, and it cost hundreds of thousands of lives, not
to mention the several thousand it crippled forever.
The American Civil War was fairly representative of the state of our
continent at the time. Makeshift armies made up of poorly trained,
poorly clothed, poorly equipped, and poorly fed individuals, men who had
left behind farms that needed tending to, and families in need of
support. Yet, soldiers on both sides fought with uncommon bravery, even
when they knew they wouldn't make it to the end of the day.
No matter how you choose to look at it, the Civil War gave birth to
heroes, the type of individuals we only see in movies, or read about in
adventure novels. Men such as General Ulysses S. Grant, or General
Robert E. Lee, and of course, the Great Emancipator himself, President
Abraham Lincoln, who abolished slavery, upholding Thomas Jefferson's decree
that "All men are created equal".
The United States of America was born on the bloody battlefields of Bull
Run, Antietam, Chickamauga, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chattanooga, and
Petersburg to name a few, not to mention the first ever use of ironclad
vessels in Naval battles.
As this website continues to grow we'll be exploring more details about
the lives of Civil War soldiers and officers, for their stories are
many, and should never be forgotten...
