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The Civil War ended on April 9th, 1865. This is the day that Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to Ulysses Grant at the Appomattox court house, located in Virginia. However, fighting continued until May 9th, 1865, since it took awhile for all the fighting troops to be contacted about the ending of the war.
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South Carolina did not like that Lincoln had won the election so they seceded from the union. They fired on Fort Sumter.
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When did the English Civil War finish?
This should answer that question; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War
When did blacks start fighting in the civil war?
later in the war
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the shooting at fort Sumter started the civil war and the confedarate fired at the union
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Fort Sumter started the American Civil War.
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