These photos reflect the sad truth about the civil war, the war was brother on brother, as there were only American deaths. Arguably one of the worst wars in American history it attributed more deaths in a war than any other war America has fought in. However, the war ended the terrible institution that was slavery, and allowed for white Americans to finally see African Americans as equal people. With blacks fighting alongside whites the war represented a new beginning for the nation as it rose from the ashes of the Civil War.