After four years of fighting, the Union was restored through the force of arms. The problems of reconstructing the Union were just as difficult as fighting the war had been. Because most of the war was fought in the South, the region was devastated physically and economically.
âHarry Potter: The Exhibitionâ opens Tuesday and runs through Sept. 5 at Discovery Times Square, 226 West 44th Street, Manhattan; harrypotterexhibition.com.
Customers shop and ride the ferris wheel at Toys R Us in New York's Times Square in this June 2005 file photo. Frank Franklin II/The Associated Press NEW YORK -- Shoppers hoping to take one last stroll through the three-story Toy R Us in Times Square will have to make it to the Big Apple before the end of December.