The American Civil War lives on in our collective imagination like few other events.
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Often remembered as an emancipatory struggle, as an attempt to destroy slavery in America now and forever, it is also memorialized as a fight for Southern independence; as a fratricide that divided the national family; and as a dark, cruel conflict defined by its brutality.
The story of the war has been retold in countless films, novels, poems, memoirs, plays, sculptures, and monuments.
The American Civil War lives on in our collective imagination like few other events