The American Civil War started on April 12, 1861, when Abraham Lincoln sent a fleet of Union ships to supply Fort Sumter, a federal armory in South Carolina. The Confederates fired canons at the Union fleet and the U.S. fort, which was viewed as a declaration of war. Hopes for a quick Union victory were shattered when they were defeated by Confederate troops at the Battle of Bull Run a couple months later. As a result, Lincoln called up half a million Union troops, and both sides prepared for a long, brutal war.

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