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What They Fought for 1861-1865 James M. McPherson
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Many parallels exist between the War for American The North claimed that they fought the war to preserve the Union but the New England Industrialists who were in control of the North were actually supporting preservation of the Union to maintain and increase revenue from the tariff. SOLDIERS AND STATESMAN BELOVED OF ARKANSAS 2ND LIEUTENANT CO. The Cause that the Confederate States of America fought for (1861-1865) was Southern Independence from the United States of America. I was born and reared on the plantation. The successes of Buffalo soliders in the war inadvertantly helped to export the very racism they fought against to the far reaches of America's fledgling empire. Then they were sent to preparatory schools before entering college. When the Spanish-American War began, many African Americans were only a generation removed from slavery. Before the war, the planters employed governesses for their children, while young. Most were granted their freedom by the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and that freedom was maintained by a Union victory in the Civil War (1861-1865). They Fought for Home and Fatherland.