History of The Civil War - 3 Cd Set

Sparked off by newly elected President Abraham Lincoln’s anti-slavery platform, the Civil War was basically catalyzed by dissenting Southern states who wanted to protect their own interests and accustomed way of life. A number of states such as Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas adopted an Ordinance of Secession from the Union, which Lincoln was determined to preserve at all costs. The Confederacy wad formed and drafted its own Constitution...the variations is presented from the official Constitution of the United States became the bone of contention and led to one of the most tragic and bloodiest wars ever fought.

Remembering the American Civil War was amongst the first to employ weapons of mass destruction, while relying on time-honored tactics of warfare to further enhance the bloody results. For this reason, it will stand forever as the event that forever changed our concept of the wages and vagaries of war.