The Civil War
It was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and TUI-lahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermöht;and Fernandina on the Florida coast More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it. American homes became headquarters, American churches and schoolhouses sheltered the dying, and huge foraging armies swept across American farms and burned American towns. […]