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After months of rising tensions, the battle of Fort Sumter marked the start of America's Civil War.

During the American Civil War, most of the soldiers were in their early twenties. They fought for their rights and the Union.

The distinct differences between the North and the South's economic and social structure only fueled the fire for the civil war.

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