Key victories at Gettysburg in the North and Vicksburg in the South gave Union forces the upper hand in summer 1863, but the long Civil War was far from over as it would take nearly two more years and thousands of lives before the bloody conflict would come to an end.
Describes the time following the Civil War, where the war-torn South had to be rebuilt, and Americans, including 4 million former slaves, had to make peace with one another.
