A Comparison Of Two Major Battles Of The Civil War

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I researched about two major battles of the Civil War. Before the Civil War, people's different attitudes toward slavery and the system of the nation caused separation of the nation into two parts, the North and the South. Some Southern states seceded from the United States and formed their nation called Confederacy. The North was trying to get the South back, however, the South claimed their new nation to be accepted. One major battle is the First Battle of the Bull Run, a first battle of the Civil War and was fought on July 21, 1861, in the Fort Sumter along the stream of Bull Run in Virginia. It started when Abraham Lincoln told General Irvin McDowell to attack the Confederate troops (the South) near the Manassas Junction to open the