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Stephanie Fitzgerald
Stephanie Fitzgerald has been writing nonfiction for children for more than 10 years. Her specialties include history, wildlife, and popular culture. Stephanie is currently working on a picture book with the help of her daughter, Molly.
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The Split History of the Civil War - Stephanie Fitzgerald
TABLE OF CONTENTS
UNION PERSPECTIVE
CHAPTER 1
1861: INSURRECTION!
CHAPTER 2
1862: GRIM REALITY
CHAPTER 3
1863: A BLOODY STRUGGLE
CHAPTER 4
1864–1865: MARCH TO VICTORY
INDEX
CONFEDERATE PERSPECTIVE
CHAPTER 1
1861: A QUEST FOR INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER 2
1862: THE REALITIES OF WAR
CHAPTER 3
1863: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
CHAPTER 4
1864–1865: LIMPING TOWARD DEFEAT
INDEX
SHARED RESOURCES
SOURCE NOTES
GLOSSARY
INTERNET SITES
TIMELINE
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 1
1861: INSURRECTION!
B oom!
At 4:30 in the morning April 12, 1861, residents of Charleston, South Carolina, awoke to the sound of cannons. The cannons in Charleston Harbor were firing upon a U.S. Army fort. But the attack on Fort Sumter didn’t come from a foreign country. The soldiers firing the cannons were Americans—U.S. citizens who had left their country to found another one. The attack continued for 34 hours before the U.S. soldiers at the fort surrendered. The United States was now involved in a civil war.
Upon winning independence from Great Britain in 1783, the United States became one country. But that didn’t mean that everyone in the nation agreed on important issues. By 1860 issues concerning the spread of slavery into the western territories of the country divided the northern and southern states.
Confederate soldiers fired on Fort Sumter April 12, 1861.
The nation’s 34 states were more different than similar. The South’s dependence on slave labor caused political, economic, social, and cultural disagreements that tore the country apart.
The northern economy was based on industry, although it also outproduced the South in agriculture. There were more than five times as many factories in the North than in the South. The North also boasted a growing population, thanks to the constant addition of European immigrants. The economy did not rely on slave labor, and it was outlawed in many places. People in the North didn’t want slavery spreading to new states as they were added to the Union.
Lincoln took office March 4, 1861.
Southern states had talked about secession for years. The Republican political party was determined to stop the spread of slavery. When northern Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election in November 1860, the die was cast. South Carolina left the Union before the year was over.
By the time Lincoln was inaugurated March 4, 1861, six more states had seceded to form the Confederate States of America: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Jefferson Davis was named president of the Confederacy.
Lincoln tried to reassure those angered by his election. In his inaugural address, he stated that he would not endanger their property, and their peace and personal security.
¹ But he also made it clear that he would not accept dissolution of the Union.
Within a week