1861: The War Begins
- Celebrations of the impending war
- The North builds its army
- The South struggles to provide for its soldiers
- North and South scramble for military leadership
- Amateur officers and West Pointers
- The Northern strategy
- The Southern strategy
- Lincoln makes a new state out of western Virginia
- The Union Army moves south
- The First Battle of Bull Run
- The South spoils the North's grand...
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