Talk:Mrs. Yonders/@comment-5687631-20121018224951

First Paper for Cat Valentine
The beginning of the Civil War: The South secedes from the South. Oh no! The North (or the Union! ;]) doesn't like it, and President Lincoln tries to stop them.

Now, a lot of people (including me!) might think that the fighting for the South was for slavery. Well, that's half the story. They were fighting for that, and the right to secede or not. Anyway, this made the Civil War. Those are the reasons for it.

The South had experience fighting, but they needed a lot of stuff: weapons, supplies, food, a president. They thought that England would take their side, but a book that a lovely Northerner, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote, Uncle Tom's Cabin changed them, so they hate slavery and they don't help the South.

There was many battles, too many to say in this paper. But I will talk about some generals, and about the first battle (a bit). So the Union general was Ulysses S Grant. Lincoln liked him, because he was not afraid to fight, and followed orders. The Confederate general was Lee, and he was one of the best generals ever.

Eventually, Lee gave in because he did not have many supplies, and was losing anyway. The war went on for 4 years before stopped.