The document discusses the Civil War in the United States from its origins in the divisions between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas over slavery to key battles and events of the war such as Fort Sumter, Union and Confederate strategies, the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, William Sherman's March to the Sea, and Ulysses S. Grant's victory over Robert E. Lee which marked the end of the war. It also references Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and notes the enormous cost in lives and money as well as the abolition of slavery as a result of the war.
