apr 12, 1861 - The Civil War

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The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. The war ended in Spring, 1865, hundreds of thousands of white men, most of them ill-trained and unprepared for war, poured into the armed forces of both sides. A day when their services would be accepted, African American men in the North formed military training companies, while women on both sides labored on the home front after their men left for war.

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