For today, I'm going to make a serious post for once. And I will talk about a dark part of the american history I am interested in, the american civil war.
Fort Sumter surrender the 13th April 1861 ,after 2 days of bombing where 5000 bullets were shoot and with no victims, represent the begginnig of the first modern war, the american civil war.
The american civil opposed the Union and the Confederacy. The republican president Abraham Lincoln, a partisan against the slavery, made a law to abolish slavery in all the USA. Immediatly the democrate, represented by the south countries of the USA, split with the rest of the north countries of the USA. As strange as it could seems, it's the democrate who were for the slavery and the republican against (yes, the party of G.W. Bush was against slavery and the party of B.Obama was for the slavery. Well, at that time only)
The civil war is one of the only conflit on the american land. It is also the first modern war were machineguns such as the gatling were used but also submarines.
For the greatest batlle to quote there is :
-The battle of Bull Run (21 july 1861), one of the worst battle for the Union
-The battle of Shiloh (6 and 7 April 1862), where the general of the Union Ulysses Simpson Grant won a difficult battle. (the attack began during the night, when the Union soldiers were sleeping)
-The battle of Antietam (17 september 1862), the bloodiest single-day battle with 23000 casualties with the both side add up.
-The battle of Gettysburg (1,2,3 July 1863), a turning point of the war for the Union but also unfortunaltly one of the bloodiest battle of the war with between 46000 and 51000 casualties.
-The battle of Appomattox (9 April 1865), the final battle of the Confederacy where the general Robert E. Lee fought against the general Ulysses S. Grant. On April 12, the army of Virginia is disband.
After the war, the slavery was formaly abolish. But the war produced 620 000 military casulties and with the civil it goes up to more than one millon. With the advent of more accurate rifled barrels, soldiers were devastated when standing in lines in the open. This gave birth to trench warfare, a tactic heavily used during World War I.
Here is a little video where you can see the battles and the territory of each side all along the war.
Please visit wikipedia if you want more details. Wikipedia is really great for all this kind of stuff. If you are interested in the american civil war and you like videogames, I recommand you to play American Conquest : Divided Nation. This game gives you lots of informations on the battles.
Hope you enjoyed the post ! See ya
