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American Civil War
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Beginning:

12 April 1861

End:

9 May 1865

Place:

Southern United States, Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Peninsular Straight

Outcome:

Union Victory

  • Dissolution of the Confederate States
  • U.S. Territorial Integrity Preserved
  • Slavery Abolished
  • Beginning of the Reconstruction era
  • Passage and Ratification of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States
Combatants

Flag of the United States (1861-1863) (CS) United States of America

Flag of the CSA (CS) Confederate States of America

Commanders
  • Poland flag Differently Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski
  • France flag Differently Philippe Pétain
  • United Kingdom old flag Differently Clement Attlee
  • Italy flag Differently Benito Mussolini
  • Germany flag Differently Wilhelm III
  • Germany flag Differently Hans Luther
  • Sweden flag Differently Per Albin Hansson
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Casualties and Losses

The American Civil War, commonly referred to in the United States as simply the Civil War was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 over the secession of much of the Deep South from the Union and by extension, the dividing issues of slavery. These 15 southern states (Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Florida, Cuba, Rio Grande, and Chihuahua) banded together in 1861 to form the Confederate States of America (CSA).

The war was fought primarily within the contested Union border states of Carolina and Tennessee, in the Confederacy itself, and with skirmishes occurring in the Union's Indian, New Mexico, and Cuba Territories, all of which were claimed but never effectively controlled by the CSA. With a total of nearly 300,000 casualties from both sides, the Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history up to that point.

Causes of Secession[]

Outbreak of the War[]

Naval Tactics[]

Diplomacy[]

Eastern Theater[]

Western Theater[]

Trans-Mississippi Theater[]

Lower Seaboard theater[]

Pacific Coast theater[]

Conquest of Virginia[]

Confederacy Surrenders[]

Home Fronts[]

Union Victory and Aftermath[]

Memory and Historiography[]

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