"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."-William Tecumseh Sherman
Thesis
The civil war was such a big part of history because it united everyone in the country and freed all slaves. Also, the United States of America and the Confederate States of America had a Civil War because the Confederates wanted to form their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery. This all started because of the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter.
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."-Abraham Lincoln