The myth of black confederates is arguably the most controversial subject of the civil war.
New Who Were The Yankees In The Civil War
Pictures. The war was started because the union (yankees) wanted to keep the. They were formed into two infantry regiments under federal officers.
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On april 12, 2011, the 150th anniversary of the battle of fort sumter, historian james m. Lee was the leader of the confederate army. The american civil war produced carnage.
People from the north were called yankees, and people from the south were called rebels.
The yankees wouldn't even fess up (even now) to the total numbers of helpless southerners that they basically murdered in cold blood. The union soldiers in the civil war were sometimes called yankees or yanks. the confederate soldiers were sometimes called rebels or rebs. The civil war presented american sectional prejudice to the world in a new and previously unseen light. Lovell pulled his troops out of new orleans and the yankees began arriving on april 25.
