The Civil War was fought between the Northern and the Southern states from 1861-1865
The Confederate States of America, a grouping of eleven southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860 and 1861, and the United States of America fought each other in the American Civil War. The long-standing dispute about the legitimacy of slavery is largely responsible for how the conflict got started.
22 million people resided in the North at the start of the Civil War, whereas 9 million people (almost 4 million of them were slaves) did so in the South. Additionally, the North possessed more resources such as money, factories, horses, railroads, and farms. These benefits made the United States appear to be far more powerful than the Confederate States on paper. On familiar ground, the Confederates were, nonetheless, engaged in defensive combat. They also profited from the Southern Confederacy's enormous size. Which meant that the northern troops would have to seize and retain a sizable portion of the southern continent. The Confederacy still managed to hold onto some of North America's best ports, including New Orleans, Charleston, Mobile, Norfolk, and Wilmington. The Confederacy was able to mount a tenacious defense as a result.
The main Confederate armies submitted to American forces at Bennett Place and Appomattox Court House in April 1865, ending a four-year war. The conflict nearly wiped off an entire generation of men who donned the blue and the gray, rendered much of the South bankrupt, and left its factories, farms, and highways in ruins. The Civil War claimed more lives than any other conflict in American history, more than 620,000 soldiers. The Reconstruction Era encompasses the twenty trying years when Union troops controlled the southern states, rebuilt them, and gradually readmitted them to the Union.
