Entrenched in a conflict over slave labor, the industrialized North and slave-powered South of the mid 1800s became entangled in the only war to be waged betweens Americans on U. S,. soil. The Civil War, infamously known as the bloodiest military conflict to date, engaged three million Americans, claiming the lives of over half a million.
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