188 - The US Civil War

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 159 minutes

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The US Civil War. Why it was fought, how, and the events that led up to it.

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0:00.0	The United States Civil War, also known as the war between the states, is among the most
0:04.6	important events in all of US history. Today we take a good look into what factors led up to the
0:09.6	South, to seeding from the Union. It turns out that the issue of African slavery had divided the
0:14.4	United States long before it was even a nation. We'll also look a bit into the history of African
0:19.3	slavery, how and why it spread in the US. We're looking to how the war was fought, how much blood was
0:25.1	shed? The US Civil War still America's bloodiest war. The North alone lost almost 365,000
0:31.5	men in the fighting and the over 600,000 total American casualties. It clipses the number of US
0:37.2	casualties in World War I and World War II combined. The US Civil War consisted of roughly 10,500
0:44.8	battles, engagements and other military actions, including nearly 50 major battles and about a hundred
0:50.0	others that had major significance. So we're not going to be able to explore each and every one here,
0:54.8	today, but this week's timeline is loaded with info. If you know quite a bit about the Civil War,
1:01.4	you'll know so much more about the time you're done with today's Sucks. So let's get historical.
1:05.5	Let's get academic. Let's also get goofy and weird in a reverent and have a good old time,
1:09.8	learning about a lot of people having a terrible time in the four year living hell that was one of
1:14.8	the least civil periods in the history of the United States today on Time Suck.
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