The war was won not just on the battlefield, but through economic strangulation.
For the first time, civilians saw the grim reality of the battlefield through the lenses of men like Mathew Brady. Turning Points and Totals American Civil War: The Price of Freedom Downlo...
By 1861, the North and South were essentially two different civilizations. The industrialized North relied on free labor and a growing rail network, while the South’s agrarian economy was inextricably tied to the institution of slavery. When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency, the long-simmering tension over states' rights and abolition boiled over, leading eleven Southern states to secede and form the Confederacy. The Evolution of Warfare The war was won not just on the