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History of the American Civil War American Civil War was the greatest war in American history. And a war for freedom it was. Civil War S' title='Civil War S' />The desire for freedom traveled deeper than the color of skin and farther than the borders of any state. There are hundreds of thousands of pages of information available through this site. Peruse the Official Record of the war, check out the Battle Map, or view the largest collection of Civil War photos available online. War is sorrowful, but there is one thing infinitely more horrible than the worst horrors of war, and that is the feeling that nothing is worth fighting for. Harpers Weekly, December 3. Porcupine Tree Incident Zip. The troops. were chiefly volunteers, who went to the field to uphold the system of free government established by their fathers and which they mean to bequeath to their children. Official Record Union Letters, Orders, Reports. I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right  but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lords side. The first general order issued by the Father of his Country after the Declaration of Independence indicates the spirit in which our institutions were founded and should ever be defended The general hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination Jefferson DavisIf ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Samuel AdamsWhat is it that gentlemen wish What would they have Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Patrick Henry. W0LZ4wMV3zw/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Civil War S' title='Civil War S' />The Civil War Home Page brings together thousands of pages of Civil War material including information on Battles, Documents, Associations, Letters Diaries. John C. Calhoun He Started the Civil War Battle of Stones River Philip Sheridans Rise to Millitary Fame Americas Civil War Horses and Field Artillery. John Kelly Pins Civil War on a Lack of Ability to CompromiseOn Tuesday, the White House did not back down. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the press secretary, said there was pretty strong consensus among people from the left, the right, the North and the South that a failure to compromise contributed to the war. That consensus, she said, holds that if some of the individuals engaged had been willing to come to some compromises on different things then it might not have occurred. But the response on social media and from Democratic lawmakers suggested anything but consensus. Other people referred disapprovingly to Mr. Kellys reputation as a voice of reason and discipline within the Trump administration the adult in the room the person keeping, or at least trying to keep, Mr. Trump under control. And many pointed out that, in fact, many attempts were made to avert the Civil War through compromise that is, by agreeing to allow slavery in some places. The Missouri Compromise, in 1. Missouri to the union as a slave state in exchange, it admitted Maine as a free state and barred slavery in most parts of the Louisiana Purchase territory north of a specified latitude. The Compromise of 1. Washington, D. C., but also required citizens of free states to aid in the capture of fugitive slaves. The Kansas Nebraska Act, which replaced the Missouri Compromise in 1. Gearhead Garage Games more. Kansas and Nebraska decide whether to allow slavery. Civil War S' title='Civil War S' />And, of course, there was the compromise that aided the very passage of the Constitution the Three Fifths Compromise, which counted slaves as three fifths of a person for the purposes of congressional districting. If John Kelly isnt a complete idiot, John Hudak, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a public policy research organization, tweeted late Monday, hes at least 35ths of the way there. In a lengthy series of tweets, the author Ta Nehisi Coates wrote that the notion that Civil War resulted from a lack of compromise is belied by all the compromises made on enslavement from Americas founding. Correction October 3. An earlier version of this article misstated how many Trump associates were indicted on Monday. The_Civil_Wars.jpg' alt='Civil War S' title='Civil War S' />It was two, not three the third associate had pleaded guilty weeks before. Continue reading the main story.