civil+war+jw


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 Civil War A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same nation state. The cause of the civil war was slavery. Robert E. Lee, who helped the south fight the war against slavery, offered his services to the confederacy and helped to quickly organize an effective Southern army. Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President of the United States of America from March 1861, till his assassination in April 1865 ,who was against slavery and wanted to abolish it.