Transcription: In one blow, the War of Secession, the greatest tragedy in the history of the United States, wiped out the stereotyped image of a peaceful and happy nation that the country had built up over the course of almost a century and made the states aware of their own fragility. Getting off to a somewhat muted start, the fratricide struggle in which both sides claimed to be fighting for liberty soon turned into a long and ferocious conflict involving solving huge numbers of men and causing enormous material losses, quite apart from the deep scars that the Civil War left on the spirit of the nation. Th ...
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