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This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The Civil War is the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history.

When Confederate forces opened fire April 12, 1861, on Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., it signaled the start of the Civil War. “President Abraham Lincoln recognized Washington, D.C., lay vulnerable ...