American Civil War (Alternity)

The American Civil War, commonly referred in the United States as simply the Civil War was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1863 over the secession of much of the Deep South from the Union and by extension, the dividing issues of slavery. These seven southern states (Mississippi, East and West Florida, the Bahamas, Georgia, Texas, and Arkansas) banded together in 1861 to form the Confederate States of America (CSA). It was fought primarily within in the Confederacy itself, the contested Union border states of Carolina, Tennessee, and Missouri, and the Union's Indian, New Mexico, and Cuba Territories.