The American Civil War

By Fabian Vartez

Between 1861 and 1865, a civil war took place in the United States. Two sides of the country, the North and the Union, fought against and in favor of slavery, but above all, because of their different views on federal laws, aspects of the economy, and how the world's future should be faced. 

 

The political and economic elite of the North were in favor of a type of economic expansion that should put an end to the so-called southern way of life, that is, slavery. In 1860 the election of Lincoln and the Republicans threatened to restrict the rights acquired by slave owners in the southern states. Slavery translated into wealth for the country's southern regions, but it was a moral nature for national public opinion. Thus, when Lincoln was elected President, eleven southern states disintegrated from the Union to maintain the reigning economic system. The Secession of the South was entirely illegal. Still, it was also a first step towards creating the Confederate States of America that was not recognized as a new nation by the Union.

 

In the spring of 1861, the Union Army failed to maintain ownership of the federal base at Fort Sumter, sparking the first shots of the Civil War. The nations would not recognize the legality of the Confederate States of America but the legitimacy of the United States government. However, Great Britain helped the Government obtain loans and concessions of a commercial nature.

 

The South fought at home and had a strong military tradition of courage among the population - young men and some women - when serving in the armies. Great generals like Robert E. Lee, Joseph Johnston, or Stonewall Jackson, decided to defend the secessionist project of the South. Nevertheless, the North had starting advantages over the South: population, technology, industrial and financial sources, a large army, and, above all, civilian labor. In the South, there was always a shortage of resources and money, of industry and men, and even a worse road network. This is because the railways and main roads, essential for transporting the military forces and their food, belonged to the northern states moreover because the main theaters of the battle played out in the southern states.

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Editorial Atelerix Creative Quill
• Release date: Apr 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201134495

Fabian Vartez

Hi! I am a modern Mexican writer with very creative ideas; I have many experiences to tell and many stories to tell; I have had a life that has had too many ups and downs throughout my youth. Additionally, I am a very modern person, all the time, and I am reading, watching videos, series, movies of all kinds, and amazed at how wonderful technology is. I hope to see you reflected on all my knowledge and experiences throughout all my books. Soon I will be publishing more and more as time goes by. I have many finished works, but the details and final editions are missing.

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THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE: THE SIDES OF THE WAR

Jefferson F. Davis, the belligerent President of the Confederate side against the Secession

The only President in Confederate History

A figure restored in his prestige.

CHAPTER TWO: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE UNION

CHAPTER THREE: THE SLAVERY IN AMERICA

Slaves in the fields of the South

War to end slavery

The slave system in the United States

Origins Of America's Slavery

The Institutionalization And Consolidation Of Slavery

CHAPTER FOUR: THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR

The crisis began with the election of Lincoln in 1860

The crisis at Fort Sumter worsened.

The Battle of Fort Sumter

Impact of the battle on Fort Sumter

CHAPTER FIVE: THE NORTH WAS FAR MORE PREPARED FOR WAR

CHAPTER SIX: THE PRINCIPAL BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR

American Civil War

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG; THE BLOODIEST BATTLE

CHAPTER EIGHT: NOTORIOUS PARTICIPANTS

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)

Jefferson Finis Davis (1808-1889)

Major General Union John M.

CHAPTER NINE: ULYSSES S. GRANT AND ROBERT LEE DIDN'T MEET UNTIL THE WAR WAS VERY ADVANCED

CHAPTER 10: THE NORTH (UNION) WON THE CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE CONSTITUTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER TWELVE: NAVAL TACTICS ON THE CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: BLACK SOLDIERS ON THE RANKS

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: NATIVE AMERICANS ON THE CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: WOMEN ON THE CIVIL WAR

CONCLUSIONES.

INTRODUCTION

Between 1861 and 1865 , a civil war took place in the United States. Two sides of the country, the North and the Union, fought against and in favor of slavery, but above all, because of their different views on federal laws, aspects of the economy, and how the world's future should be faced.

The political and economic elite of the North were in favor of a type of economic expansion that should put an end to the so-called southern way of life, that is, slavery. In 1860 the election of Lincoln and the Republicans threatened to restrict the rights acquired by slave owners in the southern states. Slavery translated into wealth for the country's southern regions, but it was a moral nature for national public opinion. Thus, when Lincoln was elected President, eleven southern states disintegrated from the Union to maintain the reigning economic system. The Secession of the South was entirely illegal. Still, it was also a first step towards creating the Confederate States of America that was not recognized as a new nation by the Union.

In the spring of 1861, the Union Army failed to maintain ownership of the federal base at Fort Sumter, sparking the first shots of the Civil War. The nations would not recognize the legality of the Confederate States of America but the legitimacy of the United States government. However, Great Britain helped the Government obtain loans and concessions of a commercial nature.

The South fought at home and had a strong military tradition of courage among the population - young men and some women - when serving in the armies. Great generals like Robert E. Lee, Joseph Johnston, or Stonewall Jackson, decided to defend the secessionist project of the South. Nevertheless, the North had starting advantages over the South: population, technology, industrial and financial sources, a large army, and, above all, civilian labor. In the South, there was always a shortage of resources and money, of industry and men, and even a worse road network. This is because the railways and main roads, essential for transporting the military forces and their food, belonged to the northern states moreover because the main theaters of the battle played out in the southern states.

The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) only worsened the fears of the South. Slavery was put to a legal end in all the two territories held by the Union troops, but not in all areas of the North - the Border States - loyalists and slavers. To defeat the Confederacy, the Northern Union had to achieve certain goals: stop the South's ability to produce the raw materials it needed and the materials of war; control the course of the Mississippi in such a way that the South will be divided into two separate zones and the Union could carry goods to the western regions; block international trade that helps southern states in the war effort; putting the Confederate army out of play to prevent possible attacks in the North, in the style of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and thus defend Washington DC, the capital of the Union. Still, the South managed to prevent federal soldiers from further harassing the South and seeking international recognition. General Lee commanded dangerous Confederate advances to the North in 1864. However, having controlled the western regions, they made the March to the Sea. President Lincoln sent Ulysses S. Grant to finish with the rebel forces, with the southern forces greatly weakened.

Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox House in 1865. After four years of war and since the Union won, the South had failed to achieve its goals. In the following years, the whole country would have to find political, economic, social, and demographic Reconstruction modes. Thus, this book is organized into eleven chapters about the war, the armies, and the life of American society before, during, and after the war. Slavery, the state of opinion, veterans, cultural heritage, memory, literature, and even 20th-century cinema are some aspects collected in its pages.

CHAPTER ONE: THE SIDES OF THE WAR

The slavers of the South were capitalist: the capitalist and the landowner were the same people. They combined selling for the world market with slave or pre-capitalist forms of production. Moreover, this class had noble aspirations and tastes in life and constitutive racism.

For the capital, destroying slavery was the historic occasion to liquidate the influence of English imperialism, the direct beneficiary of this economic formation. Worth mentioning is the role played by the English working class (putting into practice revolutionary defeatism), strongly opposing the attempts of industrialists and their Government to intervene in favor of the slave-owning South.

By the summer of 1862, the European textile industry had come to a standstill; there were 550,000 unemployed workers in England... Nevertheless, the interesting sympathy of the rich for the cause of the Confederacy was not enough to overcome the liberal and antislavery sentiments of the British working classes.

This process was studied by Marx and published in numerous articles of the time. In one of them, he quoted the following statement from a workers' meeting:

"This rally resolves that the Rebel agents, Mason and Slidell, who are now

They are on their way from America to England, and are unworthy of the moral sympathy of the working class of this country since they are slave owners. "

The social composition of the armies was diverse. Poor whites predominated in the South, which is evident because blacks were not part of the troops. In the North, it was mainly workers and peasants, the former fulfilling a prominent role. In the rear of the South were the black slaves subjected to produce for that side.

The slaves freed the white citizens to take up arms and assisted in the construction of fortifications and transportation ... These circumstances, plus the superior competence of the military chiefs, partially compensated for the numerical disparity.

Meanwhile, in the factories of the North, the workers labored with renewed zeal in the work of emancipation. At the end of the war, over one hundred thousand colored soldiers were incorporated into the ranks of the North (commanded by white officers).

Concerning economic resources and the productive structure, the superiority of the North was very great. It was able to manufacture ships and war material that the South had to procure from abroad. The main mines, foundries, factories, transport, shipyards, etc., were concentrated there.

The one who analyzed the political aims of the war most deeply was Karl Marx, with exceptional insight. First, he pointed out a fundamental premise: the North has not waged war