This 1954 film documents where and why the Civil War happened. The American Civil War (sometimes the War between the States, or simply the Civil War) was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 between the United States (the “Union” or the “North”) and several Southern slave states that had declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the “Confederacy” or the “South”).

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