"The future looks dark, and we predict, that we the are entering upon the greatest political contest that has ever agitated the people of the country-a contest, in which, we of the South must be for the most part spectators; not indifferent spectators, for it is about us that the political battle is fought. The issue is fairly joined"
This was a quote from Southern Carolinian Planter after the Civil War. The Civil war was one of the if not the most important event in American history and after that being one of the most deadly wars Americans ever fought we needed to rebuild. These pages talk about the events after the Civil War.