Question: Twelve-year-old Will is left to live with his aunt and uncle at the end of war that began in what year?

Related documents: [0]  [DOC] Shades of Gray is a 1989 novel by Carolyn Reeder about a boy named Will. At the end of the American Civil War, twelve-year-old Will is left to live with his aunt and uncle. He considers his uncle a traitor because he refuses to be a Confederate and take any part in the war at all. (ISBN  ) [END] 
[1]  [DOC] The American Civil War (commonly known as the "Civil War" in the United States) was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The result of a long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. The nationalists of the Union proclaimed loyalty to the U.S. Constitution. They faced secessionists of the Confederate States of America, who advocated for states’ rights to perpetual slavery and its expansion in the Americas. [END]  
Answer: 1861
1861