The Civil War began in March of 1861 and ended in March of 1865. 11 states wanted to leave the US to form a confederacy, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee (They went back to the US after the war.).They were all called the Confederate States of America. 9,000,000 lived in these states, 3,000,000 of them were slaves. Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S Grant, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Jefferson Davis and Robert E Lee were famous people at the time of the civil war.
If you lived in the South during that time, you would've seen a lot of war since most of the battles took place in the south. During the war, prices of food went up so they ate a lot more potatoes. In the South meat was really hard to get and they mostly ate what they could find or grow. Their main meal was lunch. Soldiers were just given canned food to eat while they marched. In the North entertainment the circus would come to town. In the South they played checkers and sang music.
I learned a lot of this by reading If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War by Kay Moore
Very interesting how life was different depending on where you lived during the war.
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