Sherman's March Interactive Map!
Watch General Sherman's war path through the South animate before you. Click here to see Sherman's March.
John Wilkes Booth ( photo credit: Corbis )
The American Civil War
The Civil War was the culmination of four decades of intense sectional conflict and reflected deep-seated economic, social, and political differences between the North and the South.
By the end of the war, more than 620,000 men had been killed....and the young country of America was on the brink of being torn apart.
