The Civil War

The most people are thinking, that the Civil War was only fought to free the slaves which are caught in the South. But that's wrong!

What was happening in this time?

The United States had been an community, built by several independent states. She was parted in two different groups. At one side was the industrial North and on the other side was the agricultural South.

Based by this, the positions of force was absolutely clear. The South was, by the reason of the big distance to Europe and the resulting long and expensive way of cargo, unconditional depended by the industry of the North. This was still the way to dictate the prices of agricultural products, which was used by the North.

A lot of economical problems was the result of the exploit and the dictation of prices of the South.

A affected industrialization and a closer economical cooperation to Europe was needed, but forced by the North with big distresses.

Slowly grows a movement for independence, which wants the splitting from the North.

The thirteen states of the South voted in 1860 their own parliament.

The first act of the new parliament was to declare the dissolving of the Union. It was on December 20. 1860.

The Confederate States of America was founded.

All local administrations and military forts was put under the law of the new grown state. Only one fort, it was Fort Sumter, don't want to cooperate.

The fort, which was on the territory of the southern states was surrounded by government troops.

They asked them to give up and as they hadn't followed their order, the fort was attacked (April 12. 1861).

The North which had really needed the agricultural products from the South took this as a welcome declaration of war, though it was just an internal conflict in the South.

The war was real welcome to the North by the reason that the South was the granary of the whole county.

No one in the North had doubts that the war took a fast victory because the South was technical, economical and military attached. In the war, which had been started by the North, was the relation of force between 10 and 15 over 1 against the South. But it needs more then 4 years to a fast victory of the North.

Lincoln declared, as the pugnacity of the northern soldiers was nearly at the deepest point, that the war is to free the slaves in the South. This declaration was in 1863, more then 3 years after start fighting.

The Union soldiers was real confused of negro soldiers who fought side by side with the confederation.

At April 9. 1864 signed the supreme commander of the South, general Robert E. Lee, at Appomatox, the unreserved surrender as he realized that a victory is now impossible. He had known that he could still go on fighting, but with the only result of dying thousands of soldiers on both side.

After the surrender, in the South raged a regime of terror by the Union which exempted no one. The North used his power and his force to push a whole nation down.

This was the story of the American Civil War.