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The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict ever fought in America, resulting in 600,000 deaths through battlefield casualties, disease and exposure. |
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| Author: Ann Anderson |
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Other great battles - the Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Wilderness, the Crater and Franklin to name but a few - all exacted a terrible price in death and human misery. The conflict was a tragedy because like in our own civil war 240 years before, brother fought brother and father fought son.
Britain and France came close to entering the conflict on the side of the Confederacy. However, astute diplomacy by the North combined with the South’s obstinate refusal to abolish slavery – an institution loathed by Britain and banned within the empire for many years – ultimately sealed the doom of the fledgling Confederate States, outnumbered, outgunned and out produced by the industrial North.
Although European troops did not intervene, an estimated 50,000 Britons – Scots, Irish, English and Welsh, fought as volunteers on both sides. There were even pro or anti Union riots in the streets of Britain. Industrial towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire suffered from the Union naval blockade of southern cotton. Confederate blockade-runners were built and crewed in British ports. British manufacturing companies supplied arms to both sides, but primarily to the South.
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