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Have you ever wondered what the civil war was about? And what went one around that time? Well this chapter has those answers.Chapter 4 was about the Civil War it talked about when it started which was 1861, and it ended in 1865. The civil war lasted for about four long years. Section one talked about the a lot of stuff for starters it tells us that the first shot fired on fort sumter. This happend in south Carolina in april 1861. This signaled the start of the nation's Civil war between the North and south. The people were both jubilant and defiant. Around May 1861 the upper south had joined the confederacry.And in july around 35,000 northern volunteers were training in Washington D.C just 100 miles away. It also talked about the New York Tribune urged a headline " Forward to Richmond". by this they Thought that it would bring a quick end to the Civil War. In this section it also talked about the first battle of bull run. The general Irvin McDowell was the commander of the Union troops.The commander belived that they were not ready to fight. He told Lincoln that it would take a long time to make an army. But that didn't changed Lincoln still orderes for his general's to case action. And so as ordered on july 16, Mcdowell marched his POORLY prepared army into Virginia. It took nearly four days for the union army to march the 25 miles to Manassas.