The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. The war ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.
Answer: The war between the United States and the confederate states began on April 12, 1861 at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina. The immediate cause was constitutional principle: the U.S government refused to recognize the southern states right to secede from the union, and the C.S
