Beginning of the Civil War

Apart from the matter of slavery, the Civil War came about out of both the economic and political rivalry between an agricultural South and an industrial North and the issue of the right of states to secede from the Union.  The first real battle of the Civil War took place at a creek called, Bull Run, the Confederates surprised the Union. Under the leadership of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, the Confederate army soon sent the Union running back to Washington. With this defeat the Northerners realized that this was not just a rebellion that would be easily defeated, this was WAR.